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After a harrowing escape from a gun battle at a hilltop Colombian monastery, Jet must risk it all in order to evade pursuers as they hunt her and her loved ones across South America.

Four friends as close as they come. Until a girl’s weekend away leaves them with a shared secret that could destroy them all. But a secret is safe among friends, isn’t it? That’s what they think until in turn they all in turn receive a letter with the grim truth written down in black and white. Someone wants money for their silence – and quick…With the clock ticking, the girls must work out who they can trust and who’s been watching them. And ultimately, discover what they’d do to keep the truth among friends.

Charles loves a new girlfriend, but when he becomes trapped in her world, he never knew she was in. Things change for the worst when Charles is forced to do things we only read about. The decision that we must make for survival. Charles is tossed into a maze of lies and deceit. Charles has no choice but to be the mouse in a maze chasing the cheese to find freedom. I know how Charles feels to be trapped with nowhere to go.

When dreams and nightmares collide, there’s no place left to run. Dawn breaks over Bison Creek, a sleepy little Wyoming town, to reveal a scene of mayhem. Two bodies lying inside the police station. Both brutally killed. One of them a cop. A man covered in blood sprawled on the steps outside. Conscious but disoriented. Beside him, a gun and a stained Ka-Bar knife.

This story is about a family that goes on an adventure while visiting ghost towns. When the family is soon kidnapped and separated from their father. The family is then taken to a secret location. The family soon realizes no one is coming to their rescue and tries a daring escape.

July 2025. Tash and Mark Webster host a glamorous party at their luxury Greek island villa. By the end of the night, the unthinkable happens when Tash's sister drowns. Months later, Nancy dies tragically too. Another 'accident'. But there's a pattern - people close to the Davies family keep getting hurt. July 2026. Another Webster party with the same guest list as last summer, everyone who was there when Nicole drowned - which is no coincidence. Tash wants to know what really happened to her sister, and she'll do anything to find out.

Caught in a Three Strikes law that sends him to prison for life, Nate Larson negotiates with prosecutors for an early release in exchange for testifying against his brother in an upcoming trial. As part of the deal, he demands custody of his 14-year-old granddaughter, Grace, who's survived a string of disastrous foster homes. Nate studied close-up magic during his time in prison. He's good, and despite her wariness Grace joins him for a touring magic show of New England.

City banker Joseph Ashcroft has stolen £1.34 billion from his own bank. He has given it - untraceably - to impoverished strangers worldwide and has fled. Why has he done this? And will he get away with it? Joseph knows that if he leaves the country, he will easily be tracked down. So he opts for hiding close by - first in the city, then in the woods near the home of his estranged family. An ex-soldier, he's adept at the art of camouflage. On Joseph's trail is Ben Lancaster, the bank's head of security and, as it happens, a former army friend with whom he shares a violent, guilt-ridden past. The hunt is on.

Everyone always says that your honeymoon should be a holiday to remember… Ex-Metropolitan Police sergeant Jodie Parker and her new husband, DCI Nathan Withers, are honeymooning at a luxurious eco-resort on a secluded Cornish island. But there's a twist: they're undercover, as the resort’s...

It was meant to be a fun reunion, a chance for six friends to reconnect and relive the adventures that brought them together in the first place. But from the moment they arrive on their island home for the weekend, Lyndsey, Sonia, Bobbie, Amanda, Juliet and Val realise that their paradise is filled with peril and there are consequences when you try to outrun the ghosts of your past. As everything starts to fall apart and the friends begin to turn against one another, deep, dark secrets are revealed and an unimaginable horror is unleashed.

Jake Williams heads to Venezuela to structure an oil deal capable of circumventing U.S. sanctions. In Caracas, he mingles with the elite of the Maduro regime and meets Lucia Fernanda, the sensual wife of a high-ranking military official. As Jake works through the details of the illicit agreement, Lucia Fernanda warns him that not all is as it seems…

Kannst du der Zukunft entkommen? Rätselhaft, raffiniert und hochspannend: In dem neuen Thriller "Escape Time" hört Shirley Steadman einen Radiosender, der die Zukunft vorhersagt - und einen Mord ankündigt. Es beginnt ein verzweifelter Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Shirley Steadman kann kaum glauben, was sie da im Radio hört: lokale Nachrichten, harmlose Unfälle - aber das Datum ist das von morgen! Erst denkt die 70-Jährige noch, dem Piratensender, den sie zufällig entdeckt hat, sei ein Fehler unterlaufen. Doch am nächsten Tag ereignet sich alles exakt wie gemeldet.

Mit ihren 76 Jahren hat Rosemary McLane sich nur noch gemütlich Kreuzworträtsel lösen sehen. Keine Eile mehr, keine Umarmungen, vor allem keine Partys. Doch dann erhält sie eine Einladung, ihre reiche Nachbarin Jane veranstaltet eine kleine Feier. Anbei eine Notiz: Sollte Rosemary nicht erscheinen, wird ihr dunkelstes Geheimnis ans Licht kommen. Sie weiß, absagen ist keine Option. Und es gibt nur eine Person, die sie begleiten kann – ihre Enkelin Addie, krisenerprobt und nervenstark.