Showing results by publisher "----RM Alexander" in Thriller & Suspense

Who knew that a summer thunderstorm and a lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce D'Amico's life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods near their house to find his son, only to have lightning strike a tree near him, sending a branch down on his head. When he awakens the next day in the hospital, he discovers he has been blessed or cursed - he isn't sure which - with psychic ability.

The Mile-High City has its troubles. Fortunately it also has a troubleshooter, Riley Connors, who is more than what she seems: law student, waitress, and flirt. Because Riley has a past and connections that enable her to protect the people around her. She's a nemesis to many.

Scott nimmt rasend schnell ab. Sein Körperumfang ändert sich trotzdem nicht. Und noch unheimlicher: Wenn er auf die Waage steigt, zeigt sie das gleiche Gewicht an, egal wie viel er trägt, ob Kleidung oder gar Hanteln. In seiner netten Wohngegend in der Kleinstadt Castle Rock gerät er zudem in einen eskalierenden Kleinkrieg. Es entstehen merkwürdige Allianzen, doch der jährliche Stadtlauf und Scotts mysteriöses Leiden fördern bei sich und anderen eine Menschlichkeit zutage, die zuvor unter herzloser Bequemlichkeit vergraben lag.

Die vergangenen drei Jahre waren die schlimmsten seines Lebens. Percy John Barker verlor nicht nur seinen Bruder, seine Freunde und seinen Job. Nein, er verlor auch sich selbst. Für einen Neuanfang beschließt er, alles hinter sich zu lassen. Auf der Fahrt durch die Highlands legt er einen Zwischenstopp in Ullapool ein. Reece Burley ist ein ziemlich glücklicher Mann und Vater. Zwei Männer auf der Suche nach ihrer Zukunft.

Dr. Madeline Lovette built a life on language. As a respected Shakespeare professor and columnist behind the viral “Ms. Shakespeare” series, she’s spent years dissecting love, tragedy, and betrayal on the page, never expecting to live them so literally. After fleeing an abusive ex and a failed trial that left her labeled a victim, Maddie sought refuge in New Orleans, hoping to disappear into poetry and distance. What she found instead was Peyton: a brilliant, obsessive sculptor who carved love out of clay and shadow. Their affair was fast, intoxicating... until Maddie tried to leave.

A tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife's determination to both find her and clear her own name--from the bestselling author of Honor One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple Aliya and Sam and the night ends badly with a...

Ein offener Käfig bleibt ein Käfig! Captain Thomas Monroe arbeitet jetzt für den Mann, der ihn vor Monaten entführen ließ. Den Gedanken an Freiheit hat er noch immer nicht aufgegeben. Um die Entführer in Sicherheit zu wiegen, erledigt Monroe seine Aufträge so gut er kann, selbst wenn das bedeutet, dass er nun seinerseits Unschuldige entführen und foltern muss.Schließlich gelingt es ihm, an Informationen zu gelangen, die seinem neuen Boss den Kopf kosten könnten. Doch um sie zu nutzen, muss er sich auf ein gefährliches Spiel mit dem Commander der Security einlassen.

The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and...

From the outside, Daphne Zeledyne and Hazel Wright look like an impressive power couple—being that Daphne is a practicing doctor and an even more brilliant inventor, while Hazel is well known in the courtroom for taking on some of New York’s more prominent cases. Heavily layered with sophistication and refinement, no one can see that their marriage isn't what it appears. Told through the perspective of Hazel, who is secretly being controlled by her wife via a mind-control device, she recounts their daily lives and history while struggling to break free.

When Sage goes to run an errand, she encounters Cat, a sexy stranger who seems to appear everywhere after their chance encounter. Cat brings Sage out her fog of misery and now Sage must make a decision - work on her marriage and go forward with the woman she's built a life with, or run off to chase an uncertain future with Cat.

Jedes Gefängnis hat ein Schlupfloch. Das weiß der Chicagoer Cop Thomas Monroe nur zu gut. Deshalb ist er nicht allzu beunruhigt, als er eines Nachts überfallen, unter Drogen gesetzt und entführt wird. Monroe, der sich selbst gerne als sturen Bullen bezeichnet, wird von seinen Entführern gezwungen, zwischen Unterwerfung und Folter zu wählen. Als er erkennt, dass alle, die ihm nahe stehen, einen hohen Preis für seine Unbeugsamkeit bezahlen müssen, beginnt für ihn ein Ringen um Liebe, Freiheit und Identität.

EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town. While dodging danger and digging up dirt, Brighid faces the ire of small town politics, crooked cops, and an ever deepening hole of deceptions, all the while struggling to cope with the constant deployment of her wife Major Sarah (Sam) Ann Musgrave.

Obadiah Koplan’s world is shattered when his husband, Xander, is murdered. Overwhelmed and in shock, he assumes the voices he's hearing are a byproduct of his loss, a form of grief induced psychosis. But when these voices give way to terrifying hallucinations, Obie is left questioning his own sanity. Desperately trying to hold himself together while seeking justice for his husband, Obie is thrust into a bizarre and twisted game of chance where he is forced to confront a painful and abusive past, manipulated by two immortal beings he can’t be sure exist outside of his own insanity.

Jeannie Parker married a serial killer. She didn’t know it at the time. But she blames her own demons for steering her into such a black orbit. Now, she’s running for her life... Stumbling through the frozen woods, she’s mad-lucky to find the decrepit cabin. But she can only hide so long. Their final showdown awaits. At least she’s stopped lying to herself about his depravity—so impossible to withstand, let alone outwit. Maybe she doesn’t deserve to get away given her complicity over the years. Still, a budding survival instinct within, Nag, disagrees with her assessment.

«¡Qué libro! Una novela increíble, delicada y contundente a la vez.» Maggie O'Farrell. Galardonada con el Women's Prize de 2025 y finalista del Premio Booker de 2024, La guardiana, aclamada ópera prima de Yael van der Wouden, alabada por la fuerza de su escritura y su atmósfera inquietante y muy bien tramada, es una audaz y aguda exploración sobre las secuelas emocionales del deseo.

Pete Morrow is an alienated FBI agent whose only escape from the colleagues and society he despises is through reading literary classics. When his boss sends him to warn away a drug dealer on an obscure army base, he discovers a murder and becomes obsessed with Jade McClellan, a mysterious man whose rock band just performed at the crime scene. Tough-guy Morrow has never been in love before—but Jade is almost magical, an embodiment of myth and literature who creates living fantasies that rapidly become the only thing Morrow values in his otherwise miserable life.

When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets.

In the aftermath of their kidnapping, Neil, Luke, and Margo scramble to find their bearings in New Orleans as they are pulled into a plan to stop an ancient force that's decades in the making. Told primarily from the perspectives of the Hallowed Ones' nearest and dearest, Hallowed Book Two explores the various dimensions of loss and emphasizes "what is past is prologue"; further highlighting just how divine humanity truly is.

While Clint rallies support inside the prison, Cochise ventures outside the walls with Hallahan to pick up some “cargo”—unaware that he is about to embark on an unplanned rescue mission that will ultimately bring him to his knees and remind him what’s most important in life. Agent Alvarez and his men take up their own mission of mercy while, within the prison walls, the two gangsters find themselves in an unexpected situation that could not only cost them the mission—but their lives as well.

Governor Sandra Murphy is rethinking the sanity of allowing her mother to talk her into considering becoming the democratic party’s choice for the presidential nominee. Sandra has enough to contend with after surviving a bomb attack, thanks to the brave border control agent working alongside the clever undercover FBI agent. Now, she has to worry about a pesky reporter who seems to be everywhere, scoping stories Sandra would prefer Wynter Holmes steer far away from.