Cosmetics heiress Terra Donlevy has opted to shun the trappings of wealth and live in the country with only a modest security system and a few dogs to keep her safe. Junius Redwine is newly released from prison and though the rapist-murderer claims to have been born again, he becomes increasingly insistent that Terra place a value on the life his son saved the summer before when Leon prevented Terra’s murder at the hands of deadly Joshua Bern, also known as Brother Lowdown. For protection ...

During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone and paid harsh consequences. His eighteen year old son knows something is up with his dad and confides in his quiet girlfriend, who suffered early trauma of her own and begins to suspect that her boyfriend's father knows exactly what she went ...

The birth of Edie Jackson's baby will at last make the population of tiny Dumford, Kansas a thousand people, a number they would have reached a month ago if the latest baby born hadn't disappeared from its crib a day after arriving home. Edie's brother, police officer Ben Portlock is beginning to realize someone in their secretive little town has a thing for killing pregnant animals and he's worried, not just because his sweet scatterbrained sister Edie is close to her due date, but becaus...

What they find when they arrive is a desperate beauty named Myra and her genius son Cal living on goat's milk, eating carrots, and praying for help. Vic's father's house is filled with dust, guns, ancient furniture and an unsettling presence with dripping wet hair. The town isn't much better, it's run by a tribe of elderly men who drive big cars, talk about 'hunts' and are strangely eager to make Vic's acquaintance. They don't like the well-muscled, trigger-happy Nolan, and he is suspiciou...

The birth of Edie Jackson's baby will at last make the population of tiny Dumford, Kansas a thousand people, a number they would have reached a month ago if the latest baby born hadn't disappeared from its crib a day after arriving home. Edie's brother, police officer Ben Portlock is beginning to realize someone in their secretive little town has a thing for killing pregnant animals and he's worried, not just because his sweet scatterbrained sister Edie is close to her due date, but becaus...

Over a hundred years ago a series of murders were committed by a family called the Benders. The people posing as father, mother, son and daughter took in weary travelers and offered a warm bed but murdered them at dinner and robbed them of their goods before burying the bodies. The Benders were never punished for their crimes, and in modern day Kansas when an ex-police detective turned missing persons investigator is sent to determine the identity of a certain inn keeper outside sleepy Cof...

A dangerous search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to remember feelings they suppressed years ago. But Sutton's father, the wealthy Edward De Berg, and her French husband, Paul Dubois, have nefarious plans for any treasures found on the island, and the ghosts that haunt the atoll will wreak havoc and take lives before its deeper truth is revealed, more dangerous than any of them ever imagined.

Nurse Abra Ahrens is hired to care for a man she believes is HIV positive but it’s a lie perpetrated by his brother, her boss, the chief of staff at the hospital. He chose Abra because she has a reputation as a recluse and has no real relationships outside the hospital besides her mother, noted psychiatrist Lee Ahrens. That changes when Abra meets handsome next door neighbor, Zane Campbell, an ex-detective turned ocularist and medical artist. Like Abra, Zane doesn’t get out much, primarily...

Excerpt:She had to have used something like Semtex or C4. Park didn’t know what else could’ve taken out the crypt like that and he knew Mina had slyly express-mailed some crazy shit to herself from Iraq.He never thought his baby sis would shoot him though. Surprised as he was to see her, all he could do was stand and gawp when she aimed her weapon. “You've got to be kidding. You're gonna shoot me?""I will if you don't move," she said.Park opened his mouth again...

Caleb Watchman finds himself in 1918 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where he rides in a model T, samples absinthe, observes people under siege from influenza and gains dangerous knowledge about a murderer from the future. He returns home to impart one thing: There is always a bear.

Guy Driscoll thinks he’s doing the right thing by giving up his job at a Chicago newspaper to get his promiscuous daughter out of the city and into the small town life Guy knew as a child. All he does is deliver her into the line of fire of someone who’s reached the desperation point and can see only one way to maintain his standing in the community. Vernon Diest's family has tended the dead of Colson since its inception and he takes his work seriously, though Elma, his shy, thin, deaf mut...

The possibility of a peaceful retreat vanishes as event after event places Etta at the center of conflict. She becomes part of a blood-soaked crime and meets a family she won't soon forget, including a wheelchair bound psychic named Toby, who has a tall, handsome twin called Noel. Toby claims Etta has known all of them before, in lives lived thousands of years ago, and that someone or some 'thing' among them has unfinished business with everyone in the house.