Psychological Thriller Supernatural

How do you solve your own murder before it happens? That’s the question that haunts three women. Convinced that a mysterious urban myth called the rule of three is real, they must find a way to break the curse or be doomed to die like those who came before them. But when you’re not sure if what you think is happening is even the truth, how do you know if you are actually in danger? And if you don’t know, how will you be able to protect yourself? Amy. Ila. Zoe. Death comes in threes.

Bobby Berlin’s father wakes up convinced the year is 1979 and he’s a teenage fugitive called Dodd Pollen. Fleeing the city with his reluctant son in tow they find the countryside inexplicably deserted. And Bobby begins to realise just how dangerous Dodd Pollen is... Short-listed for the Royal Mail Award, the Angus Book Award, the Manchester Book Award and the Bolton Book Award. 'Enough pace and plot twists to keep fans of his action-packed debut happy, but this time there’s a little more room for his characters to breathe’ - Scotsman Newspaper ‘Fast-moving, engrossing and ...

Reid is a bully, but he's still Alex's best friend. When Reid pushes Alex and their friends into invading a historically haunted Massachusetts house, Alex knows it's a terrible idea, but indulges his friend. What could go wrong? Inside, a mysterious Shadow looms in the darkness. The door to the house vanishes, leaving them trapped. The group flees through the tiny, one-roomed house that defies logic, constantly shifting, presenting them with new doors, hallways, and rooms that seem to be plucked from their memories and fears.

Darren was just getting settled into life at college when his world was turned upside down. After he and his research partner stumble upon a network of tunnels beneath the campus, his research partner goes missing. Now the faculty are covering it up. After Audrey steps into his life and into the tunnel with him, the pair try to uncover what they soon realize is bigger than anything they ever expected. Something lies in the darkness of the tunnels. Something that is growing. Something that they must stop at all costs.

Tate Woodrow has done his time for murder. Locked up as a teenager, he’s spent eighteen long, hard years fighting to survive and live with the nightmare of his attack. Now he’s back in Collinsport, Oregon, to the simplicity of living by the sea, where you don’t have to keep eyes in the back of your head and where no one and nothing can tell you what to do or when. He’s dreamed of returning to his old life, and finding Kayla Collins, the girl he’d loved. The girl who’s been missing for eighteen years. The girl he was willing to kill for. Kayla and Kenzie Collins were the ...

She’s a survivor being stalked by a crazed serial killer. He’s a reclusive billionaire with a tragic family secret. Ivy Anderson is tested to the limits of her training during an art conservation that is anything but typical. Assigned to work for reclusive businessman, Drake Colton, she finds his isolated gothic mansion full of priceless art both inspiring and terrifying. Twelve years ago, her innocence was shattered when she was abducted, raped and tortured. But Ivy’s a survivor: she’s spent years training her mind and her body to be a fighter. And she refuses to let the ghostly ...

A woman fleeing a killer from her abusive past. A struggling war veteran who needs to protect her. A haunted house with secrets that will destroy them both. After surviving a brutal relationship with her violent ex-partner, Beth Campbell flees to save her own life. She desperately escapes to a remote small town in Oregon, where a kind local offers her a housesitting job. Beth’s delighted with the job and the old, deserted home that’s located on the edges of the sleepy town. It will be a haven for her and her unborn child to heal from their trauma. But the house has terrible secrets – ...

When 16-year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black. Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben's and Andrea's world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of terror and despair.

Seven strange stand-alone tales involving unusual people caught in disturbing circumstances are presented in this collection.

A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman - and he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was hunting the same woman in 1957. In pursuit of a serial killer who can ride The Shimmer across decades, the chase goes from modern-day Jacksonville to Mafia-ruled St. Augustine in 1957, then to New Orleans in 1914.

Es ist jemand im Haus. Eine Mutter ist allein zu Hause mit ihren beiden Kindern. Draußen tobt ein Blizzard. Als sie ihren Sohn ins Bett bringt, hört sie ein Geräusch. Ist es das alte Gebälk, das im Schneesturm ächzt? Bevor sie hier eingezogen ist, haben die Leute sie davor gewarnt, dass es in diesem Haus spukt. Doch sie glaubt nicht an Monster. Da hört sie wieder das Geräusch. Es ist der Klang von Schritten, ungewöhnlich schwer und langsam. Sie kommen die Treppe hoch, immer näher. In dieser Sekunde hat sie drei Möglichkeiten: Soll sie sich verstecken? Weglaufen? Oder sich verteidigen?

Author Alexa Wainwright is losing her mojo. Her latest works aren't selling like her internationally best-selling debut. She vows to do whatever it takes to get back to being number one. But is she really? As she makes this vow, suddenly a lightning bolt cracks across the cloudless sky transporting the clueless Alexa to an alternate universe. Here, the characters in her books are given the breath of life and she meets media mogul, publisher, and possibly the devil himself, King Blakemore, who offers her a lucrative but ironclad book contract that will guarantee her comeback.

In 1993 at a top secret facility conducting telekinetic research, something dangerous escaped. Now the government wants it back. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, is a quiet little tourist town where nothing exciting ever happens. All of that changes when a young woman is found brutally murdered and a local boy vanishes without a trace.

Mike Banner heard the words that no parent wants to hear. His son is dead. Tommy was only six years old when his life ended tragically. Attacked while playing with his friends on the playground at school. His neck torn open and eaten. But Mike didn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. And when he saw his son's body move in the morgue and no one believed him, he had no choice but to get Tommy out of there before he was buried alive. Now, on his own, with the police on his trail, Mike needs to keep Tommy safe while trying to nurse his son back to health. But Tommy isn’t acting like his ...

For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning. Then came the knock on the door. Elderly Mary Jackson can't understand why Sara and her husband are living in her home. She remembers the fire. She remembers the house burning down. But she also remembers the children. The children who need her. The children she must protect.

JANE is a young woman grieving for her child, who is taken to a remote holiday cottage on the Northumberland coast. From the moment she arrives at the cottage with her much older and over-protective husband, Peter, Jane keeps catching glimpses of a little girl and hearing a child crying. Peter is convinced these are hallucinations, as Jane has been diagnosed with schizophrenia—diagnosis she doesn't agree with. She sets out to discover who or what the child could be. A ghost? A real child? Or something else?

As snow falls, a shadowy figure murders psychiatrist David Reynolds. But when Reynolds approaches the light, he suddenly finds himself seeing through the eyes of his killer, his essence imprisoned in his killer’s body. David realizes he must be in this position for a reason. First he must solve the mystery of why he was killed, then figure out a way to prevent his killer from killing again. His host is a man on a mission, trained to push aside any emotions. Learning more about him, David discovers shocking secrets about his past, and the reason why he took David's life.

John Ballard is a PI with a condition. One in a million born with a sensitivity. He absorbs the memories of whatever or whoever he touches, whether he wants to or not. He's an outcast - one that's useful to the cops - but it makes for an isolated life. Called in to consult on a gruesome and inexplicably artistic murder, it's clear that only someone with his gift can hope to solve it...but absorbing the memories of the body is going to send John's life spiraling out of control.

What has become known as “The House of Sand Killings” ended Detective Jake Anderson’s career with a psychotic break. Now, four years later, it continues to haunt him, as a familiar face embarks on a murder spree unlike any other, with Jake and his family in the crosshairs. With supernatural abilities that defy explanation, the killer weaves a tapestry of violence across multiple cities, taunting Jake at every turn and leaving him desperate to catch up. What’s happening shouldn’t be possible. What Jake has seen can’t be real. But his obsession won’t let him quit.

For Paul and Debbie it was meant to be the happiest time of their lives. A small village wedding in front of their family and friends, followed by a quiet honeymoon in Devon. Not everyone had been happy to see them together. A woman from their past refused to accept it. Her actions over the previous year had ended in tragedy, and had almost broken the happy couple apart. Now, away from it all in a picturesque log cabin, Paul and Debbie look forward to time spent alone together.... But she has found out where they are, and she will stop at nothing to make sure that the marriage is over...forever.