Mystery Cults

At thirty-nine, Nicole Mueller’s life is on the rocks in “this brilliant, tangled web of lies, cover ups and deception” (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author). Her once brilliant law career is falling apart. She and her husband, Dan, are about to be forced out of the apartment they love. After a warning from her firm’s senior partners, she receives an invitation from an exclusive women’s networking group, Panthera Leo. Membership is anonymous, but every member is a successful professional.

This is an intriguing and remarkably original novel that is both timely and relevant, set as it is during the COVID pandemic. At its core, it is a family drama surrounding a dark and dangerous secret, one based in blood going back hundreds of years. The story shows how far a family is willing to go to hide the truth from the world and one another, using a profoundly unique gift to clear a path on their way to fame and fortune. As the chapters evolve, readers get an intimate glimpse into the characters' motivations and moral boundaries. With the added twist of inexplicable powers, this ...

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 3 of 15 What has she done? Rachel wakes up in an unfamiliar room. A bloody knife. A dead body. How did she get here? What has she done? Adam comes to her rescue, and they set out to find the truth. Along the way, they discover long-lost family, disturbing secrets and hidden chambers that may implicate upstanding members of the community. Rachel and Adam are just beginning to unearth the dark and sinister events that many would kill to keep buried. Will Rachel’s dreams send them down a path that they can’t come back from? Rachel fears that death has ...

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 2 of 15 The light is not your friend. Rachel awakens to find herself back in the hospital, her memory foggy and disorienting. Images of a door and an irresistible urge to open it flood her mind. She can still hear the bloodcurdling screams that followed and feels a chill run down her spine. As Rachel and Adam inch closer to the truth, they encounter new, more formidable enemies who try to impede their progress. Despite their resilience, Rachel cannot shake off the feeling of death lurking close by, waiting for something. But what does it want? She fears she ...

Are Rachel’s visions making their way into the real world? Rachel and Adam know the name of the dead girl that showed up on Rachel’s porch. Information from her family leads them down a terrifying path, where the terrors of Rachel’s visions now seem to be a part of the real world. How will Adam deal with what he has seen? Will this bring him closer to Rachel?Maya struggles with life away from the Founding Family and is quickly introduced to the murky waters of morality, so dark that she ends up with blood on her hands. Death will finally have the soul it has been promised.

Is there a new enemy knocking on their door? Adam and Rachel had hoped they would be free after Patel’s death and after defeating the fog. Free from evil, free from visions, and free to live a normal life. But that was quickly shattered when they realized that Maya was missing, with no clues about where she possibly could be. So Rachel throws herself into poring over Patel’s old books and tapes from her sessions with the psychiatrist, hoping to find any sliver of hope. Maya’s life with Alexander is different than she’s ever experienced. After pushing Alexander’s boundaries too far...

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 5 of 15 Does Rachel have Death in her grasp? Rachel and Adam are close to exposing who is behind the nightmares of Rachel’s dreams. When they come face to face with evil, Rachel is asked for something that she doesn’t think she can deliver. But Adam and Rachel and an unlikely ally have an explosive plan to rock all they know and believe.

You’re free to leave. Elizabeth plants a seed of self-doubt in Rachel. Has everything that has happened been Rachel’s doing? Then, someone close to Rachel comes to her with shocking news…news they have known all along. Rachel and Adam head out of town and find century-old secrets. Maya tries once again to escape Alexander’s grasp and fails. Surprisingly, Alexander gives her exactly what she has been asking for but is it really what she wants? Maya finally has a breakthrough and gets to the heart of the devil. There are rooms and closets full of more skeletons and cobwebs, but what ...

Is this the calm before the storm? Rachel and Adam realize that their lives may have been intertwined even before they had met. As Adam begins to reflect on the past with his wife, he begins to wonder if the supernatural has always been at play, especially when he finds something shocking that ties his wife to Rachel four years earlier.Maya is hopeful when she finally gets word from Lantern that she will soon be out of Alexander’s grasp. Things seem to be going as planned. But is it too good to be true?

As the sun sets, long-buried secrets rise... During Seabreeze’s annual Sunset Festival, unexplained disappearances shatter the town’s festive spirit. Amateur sleuth Charlotte Greenfield, joined by the resourceful Luke Harrison and her clever cat Whiskers, uncovers whispers of a shadowy cult tied to the town’s founding families. As Charlotte and Luke dig deeper, they unravel dangerous lies hidden beneath cherished traditions. In a race against time, they must expose the truth before the town’s darkest secrets claim another victim. Shadows at Sunset is a gripping cozy mystery of ...

In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe, Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.

FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers grapples with a baffling series of murders in Detroit - and discovers a terror plot whose roots stretch back centuries. Consulting on a case, Patrick encounters the work of a killer who displays a stunning degree of ruthlessness. Patrick is shocked to find that the slayings are linked not just to his own history with a known terrorist but to a former lover as well - and that her secret past might hold the key to stopping the countless deaths.

Time Travel/Historical Fiction/Mystery When two street-wise children make the ruins of the once majestic Divine Hotel their playground they find themselves in big trouble. After they go missing the social worker tasked with their retrieval learns that their lives, and the lives of the other inhabitants of the hotel, are hopelessly intertwined with the fate of the famed preacher who founded the hotel, Father Divine. The only way to save the children is to go back to 1964, to the heart of the battle between Father Divine and the notorious cult leader Jim Jones to see where it all went wrong.

Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and 11 of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for 46 days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai.

John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907) was a Scottish evangelist and “faith healer” who migrated to the United States from Australia in the late 1800s. Dowie was referred to by critics of his time as a “confidence man”, a person who appealed to the confidence of victims using deception to convince or persuade them out of money or into submission. In the case of Dowie’s Christian Catholic Church cult following, commonly referred to as “Zionites” or “Dowieites”, both money and power were gained.

"He pushed me." Three words turn a suspected suicide into an unsettling murder, pointing to a killer whose methods and motives threaten to expose buried memories of Seong-Jae's past. Yet neither Malcolm nor Seong-Jae are ready for the shadowed secrets that could shatter their tenuous new relationship, when a haunting presence seems to stalk them around every corner, watching their smallest move, baiting them and flirting just out of reach. Is it the killer, always staying one step ahead?

When nearly 100 members of The Ark, a sinister apocalypse cult, are found dead by poison at their isolated community in North Wales, those left alive are scattered to the winds with few coping skills and fewer answers. For 23-year-old Romy, who has never known life outside the compound, learning how to live in a world she has been taught to fear is terrifying.

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor In this sizzling steamy suspense thriller, a confident private detective has her imagination stretched to its limits when she realizes the man she has been hired to follow has supernatural abilities. After conducting surveillance, our heroine begins to unravel a mystery from Chicago's darkest shadows, and shines a light on ancient and arcane ritualistic cults. Soon she and the stranger she has been...

Ten years after a fiery raid kills her family, former cult member Sybilla “Billie” Laure has a completely new identity. She’s settled in rural Colorado with her daughter, hoping for a quieter life. But the world has other plans. With wildfires raging and birds dropping from the sky, Billie wonders if her cult leader father’s apocalyptic predictions are finally coming true. When an intruder murders her husband and kidnaps her daughter, Billie has no choice but to confront the secrets of her past.