Family Thriller

When Kate, single mother and law firm partner, gets an urgent phone call summoning her to her daughter's exclusive private school, she's shocked. Amelia has been suspended for cheating, something that would be completely out of character for her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter. Kate rushes to Grace Hall, but what she finds when she finally arrives is beyond comprehension. Her daughter is dead.

Stranger Things meets The Conjuring in this haunting thriller about a family that moves into a new home that is filled with secrets that have stalked their home and their town for generations. Welcome to Ducket… A small town that is haunted by its past. The Webb family is looking for a fresh start after surviving a tragedy. Their new home seems like the perfect fit for them until they discover it has a rich history of horrors and secrets that lay dormant within its walls. Is it supernatural or have their imaginations simply gotten carried away? Shane has lived his entire life in Ducket ...

(New Content Added And Profestionally Edited June 24th 2018) Meet the Carter men. Life as a hitman, Underboss and Don can get bloody. They need their woman strong and willing to walk through the darkness, willing to kill to survive the hell that comes with their titles. Join them as they hunt, destroy and burn the world all in the name of Love. *WARNING* This work of fiction is intended for mature audiences only. All sexually active characters portrayed in this ebook are eighteen years of age or older. Please do not buy if strong sexual situations, dark situations, dark real-life situations...

A hidden past. A dangerous truth. A young knight’s fight for survival. Holy Land, 1097 At the tender age of twelve, Giles fitzAlain is forced to leave the only home he has ever known—a monastery in Normandy— to follow a father he has never met. Alain de Folliot, a battle-hardened knight in the service of Robert, Duke of Normandy, drags his son into the heart of the First Crusade, where the horrors of war are only the beginning of Giles’ struggles. As battles rage and loyalties are tested, Giles soon realizes that his father’s past is shrouded in dark secrets —secrets that pull ...

Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the teacher’s body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she’s determined to find out what really happened.

After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs in order to care for Arlette. Now she's ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman. In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she's drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home....

The Hawthorne family has built its empire on wealth, power, and fear, thriving behind a carefully crafted facade of perfection. But their world begins to crumble when a mysterious crimson letter exposes the cracks in their legacy. What starts as a warning soon becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse, where betrayal lurks in every shadow, and trust is a luxury no one can afford. Adrian Hawthorne thought he had escaped his family’s suffocating grip. But when he returns home after the arrival of the crimson letter, he finds himself drawn into a tangled web of lies and danger. His sister ...

Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film Tender Madness—will spend their days taking photos.

Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth - and the part he played in it.

Internationally best-selling author Sophie Hannah and the world's favorite detective, Hercule Poirot, return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders, the national best seller hailed by the Washington Post as "literary magic".

When she was 9 years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, and it took all of her childhood memories with it. Now she's a single mother of a teenage boy living in Central London. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at 15, but she doesn't mind. She's better off on her own. She works as a dinner lady at her son's school and has no idea where her humdrum life is heading. But one summer's night, a hypnotist inadvertently unlocks memories of her childhood, and her whole life is turned upside down.

The house is haunted. While house hunting with her family, a reclusive ghostwriter unwittingly stumbles headfirst into a paranormal murder mystery where she alone can find the killer. An unending feeling of dread clings to her, letting her know she's being watched every second of every day from both sides of the grave. Her husband busies himself with his new job, and her only child becomes increasingly distant. Navigating family life was difficult before, but now she's got visions and clues to contend with. A spirit trapped in her home, her family being stalked; she must find the killer or ...

It is 1940 and a tragedy sends Lou and her little brother, Oz, along with their invalid mother, from New York City to the rugged mountains of Southwest Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. The story is told with both heartbreaking elegance and large doses of touching humor as the lives of Lou and Oz are changed forever.

Samantha Moon figured her daughter's birthday would be nice and normal, not usher in a magical apocalypse. Amid the frequent chaos in her life, Sam has learned to take comfort in the boring moments. She's one of the few people who doesn't mind a long day in the office. So when Paxton's fourteenth birthday rolled around, she expected it would be cute, innocent and full of unicorn-themed stuff. An actual unicorn, though? Not so much. What's an immortal psychic vampire to do when a creature of fable decides to crash in their backyard? Sam has no idea. However, it soon becomes apparent that the...

The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father?

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the 60s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disappearance of the woman each of them loved - Jacy Calloway.

Sixteen years after a family feud drove her from the cozy Northwoods village of Whispering Pines, Wisconsin, former detective Jayne O’Shea returns to prepare her grandparents’ lake house for sale. Once there, not only does she find that the house has been trashed, her dog discovers a dead body in the backyard. Jayne intends to stay out of it, but when it becomes obvious the sheriff isn't interested in investigating the death, Jayne can't stop herself. Her list of suspects grows faster than the plants in the commons’ pentacle garden.

They were just your average suburban family... …until one glitchy AI, a burned agency, and a killer cupcake turned their quiet basement into the most dangerous command center on Earth. Meet the Mulraneys: Claire (ex-intelligence analyst turned overachieving mom), Michael (the dad with classified pasts and a pistol in his golf bag), Lacey (their teen daughter who hacks like she breathes), Maggie (the grandmother who knits explosives), and a talking phone named Bertram. Together, they were supposed to stay in hiding after the collapse of the global surveillance AI known as Needlepoint. But ...

Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she’s volunteering with a victim’s rights group, surfing the Web undercover to lure sex offenders into the hands of the law. But when the predators she hunts start turning up as murder victims, the FBI takes a whole new interest in Lucy.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.