Katrice Evans held on to the business card the handsome biker gave her months ago, never believing she'd actually call the number.Not until her ex-boyfriend broke into her apartment, trashed the place, and destroyed her roommate's furniture.Now Kat's alone, and things aren't getting any better.With one phone call, everything changes.All it takes is Pierce saying, "I'm coming to you," to give her hope.But hope and help are two very different ...

Sixteen years, and the only person who never stopped telling the truth was the one nobody would believe.Diane Voss walks out of Hollowmere Psychiatric Care sixty-one years old, having spent sixteen years institutionalized for two "delusions" her doctors were absolutely certain about: that her daughter Elena was still alive, and that she'd given birth to more than one child that terrible summer. Both diagnoses have just been proven catastrophically wrong, by a recov...

Some doors don't want reopening.Sixteen years ago, seventeen-year-old Elena Voss vanished from the small lakeside town of Hollowmere during a blackout that swallowed the entire grid for six hours, and she never came back. No body. No note. No answers. Just a town that quietly agreed never to speak of it again.True-crime podcaster Wren Calloway has built a career reopening other families' worst nights. She never expected to reopen her own.When Wren r...

Some memories aren't yours to carry. She's carrying them anyway.Child psychologist Callie Ostrander has spent eleven years building a quiet, careful life specifically so she'd never have to think about the summer her best friend vanished. She has never told anyone not her colleagues, not her family, not even herself in any language louder than a whisper, what Elena Voss said to her three days before she disappeared.Then eight-year-old Sadie Marsh walks into...

Former Navy SEAL Dex Riley has made peace with his demons. Mostly. He runs an island adventure company with his former teammates and sticks to his number one rule--don't get involved. So why is he stepping in to stop a handsy resort guest from assaulting a woman? Now she sees a hero when in reality, the person she most needs protection from is Dex himself. The most dangerous thing had can do is fall for her, but for a guy used to living on the edge, going over it is only a matter of time.

Her plans to save her small town didn't include a pig playing cupid…or falling for the enemy.Superstition Springs native Havana Nixon is convinced letting a big developer into their tiny Texas oasis is the only way to save the town, and she's not about to let a newcomer, no matter how gorgeous, derail her plans.Ex Navy SEAL Caleb Hardy is determined to atone for past mistakes by helping the old woman whose letters got him through his last deploymen...

Everybody pictures drowning as loud. It isn't.Dying sheriff Earl Whitfield has one thing left to do before his failing heart finishes the job: tell the truth about every girl Hollowmere ever let quietly go under. He hires local historian Corinne Ashby to take down his memoir, never telling her that the story he's about to confess might finally answer the question that has haunted her for twenty-five years: what really happened to her sister, Marisol, who vanished f...

Two friends. One fake marriage. A scandal that starts with a flying pizza box.Nomi Hannon’s city council campaign is off to a smashing start—literally. One unfortunate run-in (and one very photogenic best friend sprawled on top of her) later, she’s the punchline of a viral meme. Her opponent says it’s proof she’s reckless, scandalous, and unfit for public office.Clearly, there’s only one solution: fake a marriage with her best friend and pray the v...

Water forgets nothing. It only agrees, for a while, to keep quiet.Marine salvage diver Nora Vance takes the Hollowmere contract for the same reason she takes every job: a quiet lake, a straightforward survey, and no one asking her to talk about anything that happened above the surface. What she finds on her third dive is not debris or shifted sediment. It's a car, sunk deliberately, sixteen years ago, registered to a man who is very much alive.Vernon Hale, ...

Some debts don't expire. They just wait for interest to compound.At twenty-eight, engineer Renata Cole answered a stranger's phone call and did something she told herself was heroic: she plunged an entire town into darkness so a frightened woman could disappear safely into the night. She was paid for her silence, and for sixteen years, she kept it, building a career, raising a son, telling herself the debt had quietly expired.It hadn't. It was only ever wai...

Ten investigations. One truth. One night to finally tell it.Four years after a podcaster first drove into Hollowmere asking about a missing girl, every thread this town's secrets ever produced finally converges in one room. A defense attorney, a diver, an engineer, a forum moderator, an auditor, a mother released from sixteen years of institutional silence, all of them carrying a fragment of the same impossible story, all of them summoned to a single Friday night town meeting that ...

Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell drops you into a vast, dark world: 100 miles of living, breathing, tunnels that is the New York City underground. This subterranean labyrinth inhales three million bustling commuters every day. And every day, it breathes them all out again... except for one.Software millionaire Joe Tesla is set to ring the bell on Wall Street the morning his company goes public. On what should be the brightest day in his ...