When sabotage is only the beginning… stage fright takes on a whole new meaning.Linda Rosek was the understudy to Broadway legend Chantelle Riviera. Linda’s chance to perform could only come if Chantelle fell sick. But Linda didn’t want to fill in for the night. Or even the season. Sickness would only be temporary, but Linda would discover that fame, like tragedy, is everlasting.At first, Linda learnt Chantelle’s lines. Then she copied her mannerisms, socialized with her fri...

The statue of Saint Menaus had been the source of controversy amongst the townspeople for centuries. Some worshipped at the foot of the biblical monument, while others dared not approach it, frightened by generations of folklore about the saint who had succumbed to Satan.A bond now exists to unite all men on earth: The Internet - and Saint Menaus is ready to command his silent army throughout the web. None is more devout than Mr Winter Jeffrey. His feverish evangelism flourishes in...

Family is forever… even when they're dead.Jeffrey Still grew up without love, without roots, and without a family. Orphaned after a drunk-driving crash stole his parents and sister, he spends a lonely life trying to hold on to what was taken from him. His childhood obsession with taxidermy begins with roadkill — but over time, his hunger for preservation takes on a far darker shape.Now, in a quiet Australian town, Hannah Lorne begins to suspect the truth. H...

No sound. No natural light. No human contact. Ever. A ground breaking study with only one thing missing: a human guinea pig. Based loosely on the real-life experiences of a researcher who voluntarily admitted herself into a psychiatric institution - and had trouble getting out - The White Room is an intriguing dark thriller designed to challenge the reader with its authentic and chilling portrayal of the effects of labels on people; the influence of those in authority; and the state of neg...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!**At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex Delaware encounters a face from his own past—Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought.Within weeks of her first term at a new school, Celeste has lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web - car rides after dark, rendezvous...

The Survival Guide for the 99%.Okay, you’ve read 'normal' Zombie survival guides, you’ve got your guns, ammo and bottled water in your cellar.But, there’s one thing you didn’t factor into your ‘plan’. Statistics prove; by week three you’ll probably be a zombie yourself.So... Come on! Let’s face FACTS! The chances of surviving the Zombie Apocalypse as a Human are incredibly slim. So why not look at the 'survival game' from the other side of the coin?If 99% of the...

“In this sly and salacious work, Nutting forces us to take a long, unflinching look at a deeply disturbed mind, and more significantly, at society’s often troubling relationship with female beauty.” (San Francisco Chronicle)In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student.Celeste has chosen...

Worse than a nightmareOn a beautiful spring night Mindy Fenton went to bed thinking all was well in her world. But before the night was over everything had changed and not for the better because Mindy was awakened by Brendan Quinn with the news that her husband had been shot and killed. Now Mindy is alone, practically broke, and pregnant. And Quinn, a man who never hid his contempt for her, is the only one she can turn to

When the lights go out and you pull the covers up to your neck, do you lie there listening to something that sounds like footsteps in the hall? Do you glimpse a mist out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn your head to look, nothing is there? Are those strange noises you hear, the knocks and bangs, just the house settling, or is it something more sinister?Some might say you're crazy, but many of us believe.Within these pages are true ghost stories. Many of the circ...

Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each has taken its own journey, and each has its own story to tell. This is one of those stories.

A stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child.Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. It was a story too painful, too horrific for Hayden'...