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.

"One of the most unnerving and intelligent psychological thrillers you will read this year. Utterly unputdownable." Welcome to the glass house. From the outside, the home is an architectural marvel in the quiet town of Willowbrook. From the inside, it is a prison. And Claire Montgomery is not its owner. She is its warden. After an unspeakable act of violence shattered her family, Claire’s life has become a suffocating routine of surveillance. She checks locked drawers. She tracks screen time. She counts every breath. She is desperately trying to understand the fourteen-year-old stranger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jason tumbles into a quest to save a magical in this #1 New York Times bestselling start to Brandon Mull’s Beyonders fantasy series. Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable—until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank...

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...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The President Is Missing, America has elected its most brilliant president ever, but he’s also a psychopath—and about to start a world war with our most dangerous enemy. US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director...

"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...

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....

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!

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.

Step into the Darkness with me and explore the mysterious world of Avenues Of Darkness. These short stories will leave you on the edge of your seat, wondering about the hidden dangers lurking in the shadows. From a witness spiraling into darkness after a disappearance on The Bridge, to being punished for watching television in TV Police, to the enigmatic power of a laptop screen in By The Light Of The Laptop, each story will take you on a thrilling journey. Meet the characters who will guide you through this dark journey, from a key searching for its lock in The Key, to the unpredictable ...

In this pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve...

Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history’s most intriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing...

Eve Duncan’s daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb—until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all, in this gripping suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Jane MacGuire is enjoying a period ofdomestic bliss as she...

When she becomes a madman's target, Eve Duncan's daughter Jane must team up with longtime love interest Seth Caleb in this suspense novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy Seal Joe Quinn are about to give Seth Caleb their trust for the most...

What if the “Ugly Stepsister” wasn’t so ugly… or so mean? Anna has been blamed for everything: for being selfish, cruel, and jealous of Cinderella’s perfection. But now, she finally gets to tell her side of the story. Between a grumpy mother, relentless bullies, and the heartbreak of losing her stepfather, Anna’s life is anything but fair. And when the Prince’s ball arrives, she’s expected to find a husband to save the family fortune. As Cinderella glows and Prince Charming can’t take his eyes off her, Anna must decide: help her stepsister win the Prince’s heart… or ...

A sudden disappearance, an island escape, the boy from her past, another woman’s betrayal & a quietly broken heart. She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery... There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had no choice but to trust a family friend with his own share of ...