Alexis Fields is in the prime of her life, has just finished medical school and is celebrating her dream of becoming a doctor. But things go terribly wrong when she ends a volatile relationship with a disturbed man, Wilfred “Will” Bachman. Unable to handle the rejection, he develops a twisted obsession and promises to turn her life into a living hell.After a vicious assault and a neighbor is found brutally murdered, the city of Madison is on edge. Top Madison Police Detective Lou H...

A fourteen-year-old slave. A supernatural event. A life filled with great purpose.Lula Darling is a fourteen-year-old slave growing up on a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi in 1854. After the untimely deaths of her father, and then brother, her perilous life could not seem to get any worse. Under the watchful eye of the slave owner and his father, an inventor, Lula, along with her mother, Ella Mae, are losing any and all hope of ever being free from the bondages ...

A Wife and Mother Suddenly Vanishes.Frank Hoiberg is a retired NYPD detective who has helped put away countless drug dealers, murderers, and other dangerous criminals during his career as a cop. But now he is faced with the most heart-stopping case of his life. As he and his wife, Katherine, go out on Halloween night in Manhattan, Katherine mysteriously disappears after volunteering to go up on stage at a show at Rockefeller Center.The case has the New York...

A Mystery Suspense Crime ThrillerAlexis Fields thought that moving across state lines would be nothing more than a change of scenery and the start of a new career. But when a shadowy figure murders four men in the dilapidated house next door--her life quickly spirals into a living hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.The City of Lake Park has never seen such murderous evil and is now on edge. Soon, it is learned that a group of rogue and brazen cop...

Alexis Fields is now a doctor living happily in Chicago with a new life, a new career, and a newfound freedom to replace the harrowing past she left behind. But when several women are found brutally murdered near downtown, Chicago police fear the worst: A deranged serial killer could be responsible for the killings.Alexis suddenly finds herself in the throes of a sadistic psychopath, who raises the stakes in a game of cat and mouse each time he strikes. Chicago Police and FBI Speci...

RESTRAINING ORDERAlexis Fields is in the prime of her life, has just finished medical school and is celebrating her dream of becoming a doctor. But things go terribly wrong when she ends a volatile relationship with a disturbed man, Wilfred "Will" Bachman. Unable to handle the rejection, he develops a twisted obsession and promises to turn her life into a living hell.After a vicious assault and a neighbor is found brutally murdered, the city of Madison is o...

The entire Lula Darling Series in one Boxset!The Secret Life of Lula DarlingA fourteen-year-old girl tells a story in her own words...Lula Darling is a fourteen-year-old slave growing up on a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi in 1854. After the untimely deaths of her father, and then brother, her perilous life could not seem to get any worse. Under the watchful eye of the slave owner and his father, an inventor, Lula, along with he...

A young girl risks everything to fulfill her life's purpose.Lula Darling and her mother, Ella Mae, have escaped the terrors of slavery in the deep antebellum South and now want to enjoy their freedom and adjust to life in the twenty-first century. They soon learn, however, that their newfound existence is anything but safe or easy. Lula and Ella Mae struggle to balance the overwhelming challenges of modern-day living with the demands of keeping their past a secret ...

A Brave Young Woman Risks Everything to Fulfill Her Life's Purpose...After surviving a harrowing past, Lula Darling has made it her life's purpose to right the wrongs of injustice and racial inequality. But first, some pitfalls will put her and her mother, Ella Mae's faith to the test and their lives in danger.As they seek a way forward, the two women learn what life entails in an America that has become more divisive than ever. But through the assistance o...

Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of Ganglia 3.x.Learn how to extend the base set of metrics you collect, fetch current values...

Buried in a woodland grave are a mother and her child.One is alive. One is dead.It is one of the most harrowing cases to hit D.C. Charlie Stafford's department in years. Then more pairs of mothers and children go missing – and it's Charlie's job to find them.Soon, Charlie is hunting down a brutal serial killer with a twisted mind. But as she closes in on the culprit, she realises she's in more danger than she thought...He's watching. He's waiting. Who'...

The #1 bestselling psychological thriller"Amazing. TORE through it!" Holly Seddon, bestselling author of Try Not To Breathe.If you liked APPLE TREE YARD, you will LOVE this gripping novel.Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago, Heidi's daughter was murdered. A year later, Jason's son Barney disappeared. Their shared loss brought them together.By chance, Heidi meets a boy she's certai...