Twisted Evil

How do you stop a serial killer who can escape from any prison? On December 11, fifteen-year-old Helen Hinton is brutally murdered in an abandoned house. Her killer, Edward Phillips, is caught and sentenced to death. Helen's blood was on Edward's clothes and shoes, the murder weapon has his fingerprints on it. Edward claims he's innocent. He's telling the truth. Two months after Edward Phillips is transferred to death row, a murder similar to Helen's occurs in another city. The victim is eighteen-year-old Laura Sumner. On an October morning, Mark Hinton, Helen's father, visits Edward in ...

He’s evil incarnate, cloaked in a beautiful disguise. My father uprooted our family, forcing me to relocate to America. If that wasn’t bad enough, he’s making me marry the son of a psychopath. Maxim Volkov. Heir to the Volkov Bratva. I’d rather die than be shackled to a man so evil. A man who has no soul. His piercing blue eyes are as cold as his stony heart. And he’s not exactly thrilled, either. My life has never felt so hopeless.

A Celebration at a Luxury Island Resort Ends in a Brutal Murder at the Hands of an Evil Man When a bachelorette party at the luxurious Bellamy Island Resort turns deadly, Special Agent Bailey Flynn suspects the murder may be the work of the same man who strangled a young bride-to-be on the island a decade earlier. After the investigation turns up an unidentified set of remains near the body, and a possible witness to the crime goes missing, Bailey calls on FBI profiler Bridget Bishop to help her track down the evil serial killer responsible before another innocent life can be taken. Book ...

As a child, Susan Kesegich and her sisters suffered extreme neglect, sexual, mental and physical abuse. Their father raped them and they watched him tie their mother to a tree, light a fire beneath her, and shoot at her. Marrying at the tender age of 14 to escape the horror, Susan found herself in a marriage that rivaled her mothers for physical abuse. Six years later, she, too, was divorced, poor, uneducated, and lost. Although her life changed when she met her current husband, it was through the victimization of her father's second family that she ultimately found closure.

A glowing ghost lantern. Two dogs lured into deadly danger. And one killer determined to keep the past dead. Quilt shop owner Alexandra Allin would rather be sewing than chasing killers, but when ghost tour guide Miranda Holloway is found dead mid-tour, Alex is pulled into the investigation with her loyal canine partner Saedie and visiting cavapoo Buddy, a ball-chasing dynamo whose curiosity won’t quit. With best friend Juniper, mischievous reporter Justin Case, and the Granny Squad—armed with knitting needles, binoculars, and zero patience for criminals—Alex untangles a century-old ...

Sunshine Ray Death-Hammer is dying to save her husband, Nix the Prince of Beasts, but when it's her death that is defeating him, what can she do? Fight for her life, and his. If that takes her to Makao to confront her stalker and fight Nix's demons with nothing but a cat named Taco and a ukulele, so be it. Nix is fighting for her life and his place in a world where the Crocodile wants to devour him and use his full potential to bring the world to its knees. Fast-paced, full of twists, humor, and suspense. Closed door, slow burn dark comedy romantic suspense, with a side of the supernatural....

"Fans of The Plot, and they were legion, will rejoice at this sequel, performed with mesmerizing skill by the wonderful Julia Whelan...Whelan's achievement here seems like a little miracle, relentlessly compelling and wonderfully satisfying."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner) After the...

The world has changed before our eyes. Adrift and lost, freedom comes at an exorbitant price, and only at the behest of a powerful few who control everything. In a future America, where citizens are forced to vacate the heartland and move to a handful of cities to keep the overtaxed power grid from imploding, and where criminals undergo brain implants rather than serve time behind bars, a few belligerent patriots refuse to comply. Survival expert Elijah Stryker is one of the few holdouts. Stryker scrabbles for sustenance in a region called the Forbidden Zone, a rugged frontier that’s home...

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

A Dark, Gripping Psychological Thriller in the Prospects Series. Alec and George Savvas are more than brothers, they're predators. Wealthy, intelligent and dangerously charming, they have left a trail of secrets and fear in their wake. When the law closes in on them in San Francisco, they flee to Argentina, where Alec's seductions and George's twisted urger take darker turns. But their lives spiral out of control after a tragic accident during George's foray into BDSM. Forced to abandon Argentina as quickly as they once fled California, the brothers resurface on the East Coast of the United...

Jennifer Hanson comes home and catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. She has long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.

Twelve tales, 12 dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life...and death.

Abby Gibbs is ready for a fresh start, escaping a dark past. All she wants to do is settle in to her teaching job in a new town. What she doesn't count on is a run-in with the local sheriff or falling in love. When everything finally seems perfect her past shows up threatening to destroy everything leaving her nowhere to run. Sheriff Joshua Cole lives a quiet life in Cedar Creek, Missouri until the new teacher shows up. Everything thing gets turned upside down, including his feelings. Making things worse, lives are at risk and danger is lurking in the shadows. Wesley Roberts has spent five ...

THE SCREAM If you like Stephen King you will love this chilling tale. A bone-chilling echo from the depths of history resounds through the pages of this gripping thriller. A primeval scream erupts across time, sending shivers down the spine of anyone who dares to listen. Could he really be back? The world hasn't heard from him since the blood-soaked streets of 1888. Jack, the infamous Ripper of London's East End, has become a phantom of the past. But don't be deceived by the silence. Behind the fog-draped alleys and cobblestone lanes, a sinister presence still lurks. Perhaps Jack has ...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR CHILD IS A PSYCHOPATH? One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son Shane stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. He has behaved normally up until now. Have her efforts been in vain? She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she ...

When an unexpected death occurs in the teachers’ lunchroom, the school’s maintenance man is the obvious suspect, but Michael Bishop has his doubts. He quickly realizes that several people had the opportunity and the motive to commit this heinous act, but who had the means? As the investigation unfolds, one of the administrators is struck down by a rare illness, and another is victimized by a stalker. Bishop must deal with rumors of a past affair with a former student whose daughter is the voluptuous assistant principal, Lulu Pitts. In his classroom, Bishop’s students discuss the moral...

J.R. Rain's Echo Park Book One of the Medium Mysteries by Elizabeth Basque Being psychic in Hollywood isn’t all red carpets and celebrity séances. Pauline Ocean, first introduced in J.R. Rain's The Body Departed, sees dead people—literally. And while she’d rather be doing tarot readings and sipping overpriced lattes in peace, the spirits of Echo Park have other plans. Especially the recently murdered ones. When a desperate ghost appears in her bungalow, begging for justice, Pauline finds herself pulled into a deadly mystery involving a missing actress, a powerful producer with ...

An old man buys a dream. When the product is defective, is there a warranty to cover the nightmare?

A short drive outside of the real world Private Investigator Matt Cramer follows an art thief’s RV south from Santa Fe. He’s sure the man has the paintings he stole with him, but Matt’s boss thinks the man is headed to meet a buyer, and the big money is in catching both of them as well as retrieving the art. Matt needs to be there when they meet. A stakeout is never comfortable, but the weather is dreadful… rainy and dismal and Matt is unprepared. He never expected the man would head for a remote campground on a northern bank of the Pecos River. That leaves him sitting in his car, ...

Penny Küfer's past unexpectedly collides with the present when an old acquaintance reappears in her life, offering her a unique assignment: At the de-luxe mountain hideaway of a controversial space magnate Penny is supposed to reinforce the security team. This time, will she be able to stop a cold-blooded murderer before he strikes?