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Geneticist Lanaya Kim must do what authorities haven’t - tie together the “accidental” deaths of several prominent scientists around the country to show they were actually murdered. Over the past two years, geneticists have died in what appear to be accidents, but Lanaya knows otherwise. If she tells her secrets to the authorities, she risks becoming a suspect or revealing herself to the killer and becoming an open target.

A funny look at childhood's lost, magical moments, viewed through the heart of a father. Crawling, walking, play dates, hopscotch, hibiscuses, potty training, princess dresses, gymnastics classes - and Baby Dolphins - the whole wide world of her questions and his answers.

Two detectives hunt a serial killer. The killer's hunting them. A lone trucker is ambushed, shot, and brutally stabbed. A tourist meets the same fate while out for a jog. Facing two crime scenes that could have come from a horror movie, Detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin search for the crazed serial killer. Five more attacks happen in a week, launching the entire city into a panic and causing the mayor to throw all of the city’s resources into stopping the rampage.

When family man Mike Torino lands a project in Italy, home of naked art, Valentino, and taxi-crashing yoga pants, he brings along his wife, hoping to rekindle their marriage. But romance gets derailed by head colds, constant bickering, and assaults from ankle-breaking cobblestone streets. Their daughter develops a gelato addiction. Mike's Italian partner has a coronary. And as for amore...Mattie tells Mike to handle things himself - and storms back to America. Mike is trapped. Leaving Italy will blow a promotion; staying might cost him his wife and family.

Books one to three of the amazing The Gamma Sequence series. Includes bonus material and behind-the-scenes info. Includes: The Gamma Sequence, Rogue Elements, and Terminal Sequence. All three thrilling novels in this set are complete and unabridged.

Edited and compiled by Amazon bestselling author Dan Alatorre, this anthology of horror brings together the minds and pens of more than two dozen amazing authors. Dark Visions will take you into the realm of the eerie and macabre, with thrills and chills from: best-selling author Dan Alatorre (The Navigators), best-selling author Jenifer Ruff (Everett), best-selling author Allison Maruska (The Fourth Descendant), best-selling author J. A. Allen, award-winning author MD Walker, and many more.

Come along for a chilling ride on a ghost ship, experience eerie daydreams and psychotic killers, explore haunted houses, and send the deceased to their final destination. Edited and compiled by Amazon best-selling author Dan Alatorre, this anthology of scary tales brings together the minds and pens of 20 authors.  

A series of unexplainable tragedies surround a family and their young daughter as they seek to determine whether they are possessed, paranoid, or collectively going insane. Meanwhile, forgotten clues from the father's past may indicate forces are at work in ways more ominous than any of them could have imagined.

A freak landslide at a remote mine site uncovers a strange machine to Barry's group of paleontology students. Wary of corrupt school officials, his team takes the machine home to study it in secret, reaching only one realistic - and unbelievable - conclusion: It was designed to bridge the time-space continuum. It's a time machine.

After a major screw up, Detective Sergio Martin gets suspended. When a random sniper begins a shooting spree, Carly is assigned to lead the investigation, and Sergio must watch from the sidelines. To keep his mind off his problems, Sergio assists his new friend Tyree with security for a large outdoor mayoral debate. Meanwhile, rising star Carly can’t seem to catch a break with a killer that has the city on edge, and who may find the outdoor debate too tempting to resist.

While preparing for his final round of life-saving treatments, detective Hank DeShear agrees to work with intelligence agent Jaden Trinn and a ruthless killer known as "The Greyhound" to shut down the remaining legs of Angelus Genetics’ illegal, death-plagued genetic engineering program. But the company Dr. Hauser founded plans to continue operating, buying political protection, and stopping any would-be attackers in the harshest, most permanent ways possible. 

"The Power Outage": An eerie story about a lone homeowner who meets the new neighbors on a stormy night when the power on their street goes out, but the neighbors are not what he expects. "Tonight We Hunt the Beast, Lads": Against his better thinking, a medieval monk rides along with a frenzied mob to hunt a dangerous mythical beast. "A Settled Matter": A dark humor take of a would-be normal man who decides to hire a hit man to murder his wife. 

USA Today best-selling author and master storyteller Dan Alatorre brings you a collection of dark stories. Included in this book are: "The Jemwaju", "Best Monday Ever", and "Dark Questions". Enjoy these eerie, dark short stories from master storyteller and USA Today best-selling author Dan Alatorre, and be sure to leave the lights on! 

A collection of short horror stories and dark tales by USA Today best-selling author and master storyteller Dan Alatorre brings you another collection of dark stories. Includes: "The Rendering", "Countenance", and "Epilogue". Enjoy these eerie, dark short stories from master storyteller and USA Today best-selling author Dan Alatorre, and be sure to leave the lights on! Fans of Stephen King, Willow Rose, and Dean Koontz will love Dan Alatorre's new Dark Passages series!

The Jemwaju: Come sit by the campfire and listen as an old college friend tells a group of Scouts about a Mayan tomb he explored as a college student, and the possibly haunted remains of the vengeful warrior priest he discovered inside. Best Monday Ever: A hard-working businessman wins the award of a lifetime, but the announcement causes his wife to become a kidnap target of a strange group called the witch coven cult. Dark Questions: A young man finds himself strapped to a chair without any explanation. Then the torture begins....

From the creators of the number one best seller The Box Under the Bed horror anthology and its number one best seller sequel Dark Visions comes Nightmareland: a horror anthology with 23 stories from 14 authors. A high school girl with something to prove to herself, and possibly to her parents, goes to a rundown shack deep in the woods to try a new drug that will give her the worst nightmares of her young life. A "Nightmareland" injection opens a person's biggest fears to them - and then you are on your own for however long it lasts.

After completing the biggest case of his career, private detective Hank DeShear returns home to start treatment for a disabling genetic condition that could end his life, but he learns his partner on the prior case has just been murdered. Was he wrong to conclude the secretive killer known as The Greyhound had declared a truce? Or, have disciples of The Greyhound surfaced to carry on with the murders?

When Tom Bunny doesn't get enough sleep or eat well, he becomes...a Zombunny! Zombunny's adventures continue in this fun sequel, where he meets three new friends. Together, they confront monsters and solve mysteries, and along with Zombunny's use of long a words, Owlie and Maddie offer practice in their own vowel sounds (oo and ee).

Zombunny is up to his antics again, and this time, it could cost him his favorite movie! Young listeners will laugh at the consequences of his actions and words, love the fun illustrations, and practice long vowel sounds with Zombunny and his friends. Will Zombunny get to see Battle Space, or will his choices be laaaaame?  

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