Youth Suspense

With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings gather for a weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The extravagant trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of characters who know each other from Ivy League schools and childhood Upper East Side haunts. There is Lulu, an LA-based Instagram influencer; Maxie, a former Park Avenue princess, now Midwestern housewife; Yael, an ER doctor from Ohio; Rob, a colorless Wall Street trader; Will, a morality-obsessed lawyer; Jessica, Will’s perfectionist bride-to-be....

Imagine youngsters lost in the wilds of a remote island in the Caribbean or a mysterious African game preserve where they have few tools or resources to survive. These three fictional episodes are about how one might survive threatening situations with a little luck and heaps of ingenuity. These stories are about survival, adventure, compromise, and respect. Respect between two brothers who will fight to survive unbelievable threats to their lives. Each of the stories are riveting and suspenseful with shocking twists.

Fifteen years ago a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, surviving only thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn't remember a thing.

In the eighth installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s best-selling Isabel Dalhousie series, the inquisitive heroine helps a new friend discover the identity of her father. Jane, a visiting Australian philosopher on sabbatical in Edinburgh, has more questions than answers. Adopted at the age of six, she knows little about her father, other than he was a student in Edinburgh years ago. Always up for a challenge, Isabel is more than happy to help.

They kept him on paper. Then there was a note. Khalil never meant to stand out. He was supposed to be a temporary placement — a file, a wristband, a number waiting for someone else’s signature. At Hillside Youth Center, rules are posted like scripture, and silence is the safest language. His case manager thought paperwork was protection — until the day Khalil’s file came back with a note that shouldn’t exist. One missing line becomes a trail of vanishing reports, locked offices, and threats disguised as policy. As the clock runs out on his “temporary” stay, both of them are ...

In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London - each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the lead detective, is immediately given two urgent orders by his supervisor at the Yard: solve the murders quickly and keep his wife, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, away from the case! Thankfully, Daisy's off visiting their daughter at school. But when a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick of it.

A young female police officer, in Sienna Monroe’s new home town in Tennessee, was killed in the line of duty. Accidentally? For the last six months, amateur sleuth, Sienna Monroe, has helped solve mysteries around the town. Cases that the police either didn't have the patience to solve, or the time to commit to doing it properly. The autumn season was quiet, until... Painful memories of the death of her husband Jack, a veteran cop from Los Angeles, are stirred up. When Sienna hears that the young woman’s death may not be all that it appears, she can’t help but offer her amateur sleuth...

One community, one night, one test of what it means to repair what breaks. When someone starts snuffing lamps along the ridge and a toddler needs a doctor, the sleepy Maple Glen finds its mettle. Susanna Fisher and Micah Byler organize a practical, kind response—bell-wired posts, white-tie markers, daylight tasks for teens—and invite confession, restitution, and service instead of shame. The result: a quiet, believable mystery solved with empathy, and a romance that grows from respect. PRANK NIGHT AT PUMPKIN RIDGE is a high-stakes small-town cozy read—faith-friendly, clean, and rich ...

Lindsey Aeon has a secret—and it's not just her undercover identity. Twenty years ago, a hike in the Florida wilderness changed her life forever. After falling into a mysterious pool of cool, shimmering water, Lindsey emerged... different. She hasn’t aged a day since, and her body now boasts rapid healing, enhanced strength, speed, and agility. These extraordinary abilities make her an exceptional FBI agent, but they also make her life anything but ordinary. Now, Lindsey’s latest assignment takes her to Philadelphia, where she must go deep undercover to infiltrate a powerful mob ...

Dishonorably discharged, former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin is down to his last ten bucks when he finally finds work as a test subject at the Obermeyer Institute, a little-known and believed-to-be-fringe scientific research facility. When he enters the OI compound, he is plunged into a strange world where seemingly mild-mannered scientists - including women half his size - can kick his highly skilled ass.

“Chilling...satisfying...offers up tasty tidbits of San Francisco lore . . . [Russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character.”—New York Times Book ReviewSan Francisco P.I. Stuart Winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor—for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder. “Polished and provocative...a California mystery of the hard-boiled school...very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters.”—Booklist “Remarkable...[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos’ ...

Aja Minor goes undercover. The target, an international child trafficking ring. When her cover is blown, the mission and her life are in jeopardy. Fresh off of the Peace Sign Killer case, Aja Minor is asked to join a joint CIA-FBI task force based in New York City. There, she joins a team whose aim is to take down the Fountain of Youth network - an international child trafficking and exploitation ring. When Aja is asked to go undercover for the first time, all doesn’t go as planned.

Attorney Harper Ross is at the end of her rope. Her former client, John Robinson, who she walked on a technicality, went on to kill again. John's second victim was a young, vibrant mother of two. After suffering with the devastating guilt about the evil that she unleashed back onto the street, Harper retreats to her old haunt, a bar called Charlie Hooper's, as she confronts her old demons. Before she has a chance to completely drown her sorrows, Harper is called to defend Heather Morrison, a transgendered youth who is accused of killing her mother in cold blood.

When Eddie wakes up in his neighbor the judge's yard after a particularly vivid dream and with no recollection of how he got there, the trouble begins. Someone or something has caused mischief in the judge's chicken coop, harming his prized rooster. No matter what Eddie says, the judge is convinced he is the culprit and must be punished accordingly.

When Luke Farmer and his two best friends find a cell phone in the park, they are thrust into a world of adventure and mystery. With his newly rescued Golden Retriever, Boone, Luke is determined to figure out what is so important on the phone and why someone will do anything to get it back. Other Side of Night is a heart-pounding story of three friends forced to rise above their fear and face unknown adversaries in order to discover the truth.

Reb glanced over at Orville. “Dump him.” “What? Wait. I know a way to get up there without being seen.” “Start talking,” Reb said. The man explained about a hidden door behind a group of rocks which was used as a quick escape route. “Are we done with him, boss?” Reb nodded. Orville pulled the man up, then Reb knocked him out. Reb gazed at Orville. “Here, help me tie him and gag him.” Orville frowned. “I liked the idea of dumping him over the ledge.” Reb grinned. “I was tempted.” Reb smiled at Orville. “Taylor is trying to make a better man out of me.”

Set against the backdrop of 1980s Dublin, The Tan Yards by Robert E. Kearns weaves a haunting narrative of tradition, tension, and retribution. In a forgotten tract of land known as the Tan Yards, (a relic of a former village's extinct tanning trade), local youths gather each October to build a Halloween bonfire; a ritual that binds their community in primal celebration. Amidst the flickering flames and fleeting alliances, the story unveils the dark legacy of the Prizeman family, whose brutish presence looms large over the neighborhood. When Victor Prizeman, a volatile and feared outsider, ...

Hammerfall is a quiet town where nothing ever seems to happen, until one day in the late summer of 1999. The adults begin showing signs of a strange infection, turning them into ravenous lunatics that will stop at nothing to infect those around them. A group of teenagers, who had once been friends, find themselves thrust into a new world of carnage. Struggling to put aside their differences, they must learn to rely on one another as the town that they once knew now crumbles around them. Their lives hang in the balance when unlikely allies emerge, but the onslaught of the infected is not the...

Marshall only wanted to help his friends, to undo the pain of the past, but a few moments of thoughtless action changed everything. Altered Realities is the tale of a changed world. All bets are off. Nothing is as it was, and what is to be is transformed, too. Mark, Taylor, Ethan, Nathan, Brendan, Casper, and nearly the entire cast of the Gay Youth Chronicles come together in a tapestry of tales as they all try to deal with the consequences of Marshall’s actions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Dr. Nina Gould is dealing with her illness as best she can - by cutting ties with her two best friends and colleagues David Purdue and Sam Cleave. She takes a contract offer in Hampshire, England, to lecture at a quaint, privately owned college St. Vincent’s Academy of History and Science. There, she meets the dean’s mother who intrigues her with tales of the antique fountain in the courtyard - the Fountain of Youth - reputed to have been the real deal, even sought by the Nazi elite once.