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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Book 7 – The Eternal Series Sometimes destiny is stronger than the obstacles standing in your way Philippe had been a 13 year old vampire for more than 150 years. Now he finds himself with an adult body complete with adult hormones, and no clue how to handle it all. And, becoming an overnight chick magnet has complicated things with Nadia, the only woman he has ever loved…secretly. The problem is he’s stuck in her friend zone, especially since her own recent changes are wreaking havoc on her life? Nadia is just your average girl, who just happens to be a druid…with almost no magical...

Could you survive? ..........In the 22nd Century? ....................After an apocalypse? Youngblood was a computer whiz. Kira was a kickass huntress. Could they make a difference? Youngblood was an eighteen-year-old when his father placed him in hibernation to await a cure for his disease. But when he woke a century later, he was gasping for breath in a deserted underground bunker. The post-apocalyptic world he found was divided between the valley settlers who lived a subsistence existence and their mountain dwelling overlords who reaped all the benefits of a 22nd Century lifestyle. ...

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.

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.

JACK $BOI: DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL A Vigilante Horror Novel of Myth, Murder, and Baltimore’s Soul A ghost haunts Baltimore's burning streets and his followers are ready to kill to keep his legend alive. The city of Baltimore is bleeding. Sirens never sleep and street corners tell stories the news can't cover. At the center of it all, the myth of a vigilante known only as Jungle is spreading like wildfire through whispers, prayers, and murder. Detective Maya Reynolds thought Jungle was dead. She saw the body. She signed the file. But when victims begin turning up with his signature a slit ...

“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’ ...

Where...and when...was she? And was this mountain man really her husband? Imagine waking up in your favorite historical romance story...and getting a thinner, rejuvenated body at the same time. That might sound ideal, but dealing with cougars, creeps, and kidnappers isn't. Join 20th century-born Evie as she deals with the hardships of living in the backwoods of Revolutionary War-era North Carolina while dealing with a severe case of AMNESIA, being ABANDONED by the man who claimed her as his wife, and ADOPTIONS, using nothing but her wit and grit, give or take a knife or two...and the ...

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...

The Formula is a suspense thriller that starts with a brutal murder on Ares, a large space station orbiting Mars in the year 2094. Doctor Leif Johanson and his daughter, Ingrid, have discovered the ‘fountain of youth’. It’s a new anti-aging drug, each vial worth $5 million denom on the black market. The drug can regenerate living cells and make anyone young again. There’s just one problem. A powerful and ruthless drug producer named Ivan Hellstrom wants the discovery for himself. He tries to eliminate all those who get in his way. He murders the doctor, kidnaps Ingrid and steals the...

A kidnapped woman, as well as five others,is trained and engineered to become a superwoman and take over the world. Can her husband and his Navy Seal buddies find her and rescue them? Will they defeat the evil, demonic billionaire technologist behind it all? Dani Wells has just turned 50. She is married to Jack Wells, a retired Navy Seal and also worked in the CID (Criminal Investigation Division, US Marine Corps) Dani works as a research analyst specialist for the Adams, Adams & Gray law firm. Jack, alongside his friend, Rev. Graham Smith, works with at-risk youth under a program they ...

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, ...

A summer of freedom. A party that changed everything. Dana and Liri set out on their big trip the way so many young Israelis do—landing in Costa Rica with backpacks, loose plans, and a hunger for adventure. Along a remote stretch of jungle coast, they stumble upon a hidden camp, where they meet three surfers who will change the course of their journey. Days slip by in salt water and sun. Between the waves and their travels, friendships deepen, and unexpected romance grows. Months later, back in Israel, the group reunites at a desert music festival to celebrate new beginnings. As dawn ...

A GRIPPING NOVEL • Friendship, loyalty, and sacrifice are just some of the convoluted plot’s facets in a story that reveals life’s ups and downs. Rubby Jam is both an entertaining and terrifying glimpse of contemporary life and love. “An impressive debut.”–Sabrina (The Book Loving Panda) “It could be a movie on the big screen.”–Eva Recinella (Between The Bookend) Eric, a handsome young man, falls for Estie, a gorgeous, free-spirited stripper who likes living on the edge. Her uninhibited world, so different from his, intrigues him, and he is curious to find out more. At the...