Mind Thriller

After earning rave reviews with Falling Off Air, Catherine Sampson's second novel has British documentary filmmaker Robin Ballantyne in Cambodia filming a documentary about land mines. But her main goal is to get information about a friend of hers who disappeared mysteriously.

Everyone's favorite vampire detective is back in a brand-new short story! (Plus two bonus stories!) Included in this collection: "Moon Musings" - Samantha Moon is back and...blogging? Turns out the vampire mama has a lot to say on the subject of life, death, and fighting demons. And what better outlet than in an anonymous blog? For those who want to know what's really on a vampire's mind... "Moon Memories" - He's a new client with lots of questions. She's a vampire feeling oddly chatty. Is he ready for the answers? "Moon Quiz" - It's a quiz in a magazine, meant to entertain and perhaps kill...

"When you say you'd do anything to lose the weight, do you really mean it?" Desperate people make stupid mistakes, and Marilyn Channing is no exception. Emerging from the wreckage of a messy divorce, she's determined to lose the weight gained from twenty years spent swallowing her pride. Enter The Vale, a spa nestled deep in the bush, miles from temptation, miles from help. In return, the retreat promises spectacular weight loss and a respite from the chaos of everyday life. It all sounds so lovely and supportive, so deceptively easy. Marilyn should have read the fine print. Because more ...

Meet Stella O'Neil, retired FBI agent Oscar O'Neil's granddaughter. She's got a lot on her plate, trying to figure out her crazy, stubborn family, the hidden secrets that caused her grandfather's estrangement from her dad, and starting out as a real estate agent. Throw in a dead body found in what used to be the town's "royalty" family manor, and she's neck deep in a mystery.

Annie and Fia are ready to fight back. The sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation for years, trapped in a never-ending battle for survival. Now they have found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death, Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation. And Fia is working with James Keane to bring his father down from the inside. But Annie’s visions of the future can’t show her who to trust in the present. And though James is Fia’s first love, Fia knows he’s hiding something.

Detective Paige Aldridge’s family are prey for a serial killer. Desperate to help her sister, she is determined to find out who is behind it all. After being the victim of a kidnapping, she is traumatized by memories she does not know she has. She sees visions of the murders and believes she is followed by someone she’s only seen in the shadows.

Michael Dane had been wandering in the darkness of his own despair for what felt like an eternity. The night sky was filled with stars but all he could see was loneliness and emptiness. He had been running away from his past for as long as he could remember, but now he was completely lost and alone. He felt like he had been swallowed by an endless void and he was never going to find a way out. But then one night, something changed. As he continued his long journey, he felt a strange power awaken inside of him that he never knew he had. He slowly realized he could manipulate the world around...

The deadly crusader has just lucked into an ex-dictator’s fortune. All he wants for the moment is to enjoy squandering his riches on women and yachts and women and private jets - and more women. But a horde of chanting cultists almost brainwashes him in Minnesota and he barely escapes a time-bomb explosion in San Diego. After getting word of the strange events, Hawk is on his way to Hong Kong to break open the most sensational case of his career - if he can live long enough to find the she-devil behind the mind twisters.

Review ~ Five Star (see Editorial Reviews below) "Anomaly is a gripping sci-fi thriller and a nail-biter of a novel all the way through. Edmund Hulton fills the pages with suspense and intrigue and keeps you guessing until the end. ...this is a fantastic book for sci-fi mystery or thriller readers." ~ Pikasho Deka - Readers' Favorite Strap in and hang on!!!Over five billion years ago, in the vast expanse of the cosmos, a fleet of vessels embarked on a monumental mission—to sow the seeds of life across selected galaxies. Each spacecraft carried two artificial entities known as The Keepers,...

Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent - aka Great White Shark - and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy. The police want to write off the deaths as accident and misadventure, but Ellie believes someone is targeting members of the Hooper family. Surely Diana wouldn't… or would she?

Enemies and Fated Mates- A powerful, lustful combination. Add in shifters, bounty hunters, bikers, and magic for an adventure to remember... REBEL SHIFTER'S REDEMPTION When mage bounty hunters murdered my family, their mistake was leaving me alive. Ever since that brutal massacre, my hardened heart thrives on revenge. Until the day I see her. She is a mage in pursuit of shifters under my protection and my sworn enemy. From the moment our eyes meet, a connection as dangerous as it is captivating sparks between us, threatening to shatter both of our lives. She represents the evil I fight ...

The Story of a Victim of Mind Control An utterly dark and disturbing exploration into the deepest recesses of the human psyche. The biblical indictment to Eve that states: ‘Your desire shall be for your husband . . .’ rings all too true for Goldie Benelak, a woman that stalks her estranged husband, only to become embroiled within the machinations of the CIA in its use of her as an unwitting assassin in the killing of her love rival. 'Betrayal' is a tale of social mores and changing identities that delves in part into the realm of non-fiction with regards to US covert operations: the ...

Rowan has been drinking himself into a haze lately. He knows he hasn't always been this way. He knows something happened that made him this way, but, for some reason, he can't remember what it is. Then there are the strange dreams, the woman following him, and the demon in his apartment hallway. What does it all mean? Can he fix what is wrong with him? His repressed memories are the only thing that can bring him the answers he needs, but the more he faces them, the more nightmarish his reality becomes.

During a New Orleans Mardi Gras Ball, psychic entertainer Diana Racine touches the hand of a masked Cyrano de Bergerac and is instantly transported into the icy-cold body of a dead woman submerged in water. As Diana crumples to the floor, water filling her lungs, she hears Cyrano whisper that the game has begun. Diana has been called every epithet in the book: charlatan, cheat, publicity hound...and genius - all at least partially true. But convincing New Orleans police lieutenant Ernie Lucier that her vision of the dead woman is the real thing may be her hardest act yet.

This collection contains the previously unreleased short Geo Gets Some VR Therapy, bringing Wes's adventures to a new hero! Wes is a bit of a Virtual Reality Junkie... ...but things are getting a tad bit confusing. Wes works at a high-tech startup, but what he really wants to do is work on the VR system he's been developing in his apartment. For a shy introvert like Wes, actually chatting up some of the gorgeous and entirely unobtainable women at his office is a virtual impossibility. Well, maybe not in Virtual Reality! After his college roommate sends him some special software updates, Wes...

A collection of short stories from some of your favorite authors. You think you know darkness? Think again. Bloodhound Books presents Dark Minds - a collection of stories by authors who have come together to produce an anthology that will lure, tantalize, and shock listeners.

One year has passed since a string of vicious murders shocked the quiet block of Goshen Street. While deep scars remain for the survivors, William Parson lays in his hospital bed tormented by the murders committed by his hand, but not of his will. Completely paralyzed, he has no means to communicate. Thought to be in a vegetative state, and utterly despised, he is deprived of music, books, movies or even a single soul to speak to him.

As Jen struggles to resist the pleasures of the Spymistress, Nicole flies to her rescue. Along the way, she'll meet a damsel in distress who can only be aided through hypnotic means. But is this a damsel...or a Mistress in disguise?

Tragedy enters the quaint coastal town of New Haven, Oregon, when the recently released convict Ross Conrad vows to make good on a 10-year-old threat. Private Investigators Troy and Eva Winters take on the case when they realize their good friend Jasmine is the object of his delusional obsession.

The Highwayman delivers death and destruction. Road rage is his ritual—his obsession. Always at mile marker 33. Always brutal. This might be Special Agent Meredeth Connelly's toughest case yet. His crimes span the nation's highways. His gruesome deliveries are accelerating. She's spread too thin. She needs help—but at what cost? He's got full tanks. She's riding on empty. How do you track a killer who's miles away before anyone knows he's killed again?