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Detective Jake Cashen is called to a cul-de-sac on the edge of Blackhand Hills, where a teenage girl has discovered the victims of a murder-suicide. Newlyweds, shot in their own home. It looks open-and-shut. But something about the scene feels wrong—and Jake can't shake the parallels to his past. The case dredges up memories of his own parents' deaths under the same circumstances. His father snapped. His mother paid with her life. End of story. But as Jake digs deeper into the present-day investigation, he finds unsettling threads that lead straight to the tragedy that defined his childhood.

The hunt for a serial killer leads a vampire agent to uncover a terrifying conspiracy in this dark urban fantasy by the author of the Hellequin Chronicles. Vampires and humans live side by side thanks to an uneasy peace maintained by the Assembly. As an Arbiter for the powerful organization...

Lieutenant Blake Larsen is on the trail of her own family tragedy when another rips apart Pine Ridge Retreat, a troubled teen camp on the edge of Northern Pines. A girl named Chloe Perez is dead, and a missing teenager with a troubled past—Jax Mitchell—is the prime suspect. Though Blake is desperate to uncover the truth about her parents' horrific murder-suicide, duty calls. When deputies first arrive at Pine Ridge, security refuses to let them through the gate. Why? What are they hiding—and why will no one talk?

Contains books four, five, and six of the Deliver series: Devastate, Take, and Manipulate.

Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop is just trying to be friendly when she gives directions to an impatient tourist. Five hours later, the same tourist is dead. The only evidence? A lit match and the lingering smell of gasoline. It's the first of three murders, all tourists, all burned alive. Rileigh is no stranger to horrific murders. When she's hired as a private investigator, she teams up with the recently fired local sheriff to uncover the connection between the victims, but the facts don't add up.

It starts the way it always does: with a desire to help. Dawn Cates, a retired schoolteacher from Millinocket, drinks her sorrows away at the local tavern. King recognizes her. He ran into her his first week in town, and he can’t shake the urge to ask what’s wrong. She watched her dog die in a hit-and-run, and she thinks she knows who did it, but she’s scared…of what? King’s not scared of much, and heads east to the coastal town of Lubec to smash heads together. But what he finds eclipses anything he could have imagined, a global operation so vast it defies belief.

A midnight call has Leopold scrambling to gather and deploy his available assets. But there is a high-stakes game being played, one at the highest levels of government. The members of Leopold’s original team—Cira, Estella, Yergha—quickly find themselves in over their heads, prompting Leopold to summon Kiera, and then to fetch his wild card: Atlas Hargrove. This caged lion is itching for a new job, something to bring him closer to finding his daughter. With his enemies stacking up and the warden no longer offering his protection, Atlas will jump out of one nightmare into another.

On the run and with danger tailing him, Beckett races against time to save his niece, Amber, from vicious kidnappers. With deadly threats closing in, he comes to the startling revelation he can trust no one…not even his closest allies. The streets of London become a battlefield as Beckett struggles to stay one step ahead of his enemies and protect Amber—all the while confronting the dark truth about The Consortium, a shadowy organization that will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on power.

I use my body to make men fall to their knees. I just wasn't expecting a man as powerful as my boss to fall for the act. Dutton Taylor is a man who is not used to hearing no. Good thing denying dangerous men just so happens to be my specialty. The past broke me, and I refuse to be tempted by promiscuous lies. I'll do whatever it takes to protect my son and the new life I've built for us. We should keep our distance. But my body doesn't get the memo… and neither does he.

Genevieve Callow, the FBI's top criminal profiler, is growing tired of her constant race against the clock. A quieter life seems possible—until a hike in the woods around the town of Roxobel leads to the discovery of a victim's body covered in runes on a bloody altar. Local law enforcement is outmatched and under-equipped, and the townspeople are terrified by the evidence of more rituals to come. First on the scene, Callow and her team are immediately assigned to the case, her short reprieve now interrupted by a cunning and sadistic killer who knows exactly who she is.

After an impressive performance in front of a full house, local college basketball stand-out Davonte Blair celebrates the victory with a few friends. But when a fierce argument over drugs ensues, the evening takes a violent turn — and one member of the group goes missing. When police discover the body of the basketball team manager, the town turns into a tinderbox of emotions. The media is calling it a hate crime. The college president is desperate to avoid a scandal. And the police department is under intense pressure to solve the horrific case.

When a stranger breaks into Kate’s mother’s studio and is killed in self defense, Kate takes the investigation into her own hands. The attack feels personal, especially when her mother is clearly hiding something. Then Kate discovers a secret cell phone hidden in the studio with only one number in the call log. Enlisting her sister’s help to track the number, Kate embarks on a dangerous journey through her mother’s secret past, where she can no longer trust anything she knows about the woman who raised her.

Catherine Cross is the most successful female televangelist in the country. Her congregation in the western suburbs of Orlando is one of the wealthiest. She's comfortable and charismatic in front of a camera, but when her youngest daughter goes missing not even she is ready for the media firestorm that follows.

As Leopold’s private investigators zero in on Atlas’s missing daughter, a network of hunters have dropped their roots in Prague. What starts as a mother’s revenge becomes something more, something out of a nightmare. In the black market of hellish delights, the wicked always feast. But such loathsome pursuits cannot go on forever, for there are hunters of a different breed taking notice—men and women no longer willing to suffer the mischief of deviants. Atlas and the team are animals of this very sort.

Three hours into her new job, Blake Larsen stumbles across her first body. But this is no ordinary murder. The scene is elaborately staged, with the victim's head clinically severed from her shoulders. Blake is certain this isn't the killer's first time. Then, a second woman goes missing, a beautiful young Army wife named Nina Crawford. When the kidnappers—claiming to be ISIS—release a horrific videoed ransom demand threatening to livestream her execution, the attention of the entire country turns to Northern Pines. And a countdown begins. Nina has 48 hours to live.

Sam Johnstone was hoping for renewal when he took a job at a boutique law firm in rustic Wyoming. The mountains and streams of the West would be a refreshing, quiet place to start over after years of war and turmoil in his personal life. But after a local woman is brutally murdered, Sam realizes that things aren’t so quiet in this rural American town. The accused is one Tommy Olsen, a known delinquent who had been sleeping with the victim. Sam is repulsed by the crime and wants nothing to do with the case but meets with Tommy to make sure he has legal representation.

After a fallout with his business partner and a breakup with his girlfriend, lawyer Sam Johnstone thinks a long vacation might be just what the doctor ordered. Before he can quit town, Sam gets a call from Lucy Beretta, the wife of the missing local college president. With a shocking accusation against an acquaintance and a plea for protection, Lucy derails Sam's plans for a quiet escape. But when her alleged attacker turns up dead, Lucy is charged with his murder - and Sam is appointed to represent her.

Meet Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman, a sex-crimes prosecutor whose past demands justice. When a 14-year-old girl is savagely attacked by her mother's live-in boyfriend, Lettie is called to the hospital. There, she meets a sweet young girl whose only goal is to go to school and come home to a safe environment. But mom's boyfriend makes the girl's world anything but safe. Soon, the abuse gets worse, and Lettie, the prosecutor, goes to the grand jury with the case. Two juries later, the abuser is still loose on the streets.

Defense attorney Brad Madison likes to call the shots. Normally, he gets to choose his clients. Not this time. When Walter Powell is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, property mogul Rubin Ashby asks Brad to defend him. But it's not a request; it's an order. Brad loathes Ashby; his mother lost a fortune in one of Ashby's failed property schemes. He's forced to make a deal: clear Powell's name and his mother's loss will be repaid.

Reverend Green was a fierce challenger to Anderson's faith healing techniques, protesting against his every move, preaching that Anderson was performing the Devil's work. When Green is found murdered only hours after a physical altercation with Anderson, all the evidence points to one man. A white supremacist group throws their unwanted support behind Anderson, and the case threatens to turn the streets of Chicago into a battleground for race riots.