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With its manicured lawns, pastel houses, and quiet, tree-lined streets, Willow Ridge seems to be the perfect place for Megan and Tyler Stokes to start a new chapter in their lives together. But soon after settling in, Megan begins to notice cracks in the neighborhood's bright suburban facade - cracks that reveal a darker secret hidden just beneath the surface. After an angry encounter with a neighbor takes a horrifying turn, Megan's waking nightmare truly begins.

Fresh out of college, Evan has everything going for him: a good job, a beautiful fiancée, and the prospect of making partner at his firm. Then one night, with one bad decision, his dream life turns into a nightmare of cover-ups and lies. It begins as one last drunken celebration with his old friend Peter but ends with a deadly confrontation so heinous the two make a pact to never tell anyone about it - not even the police. The truth has a way of getting out, however, and the truth about Peter is far more dangerous than Evan could have ever imagined.

Alt Nate og Sara ønsker er et nyt liv i en ny by, væk fra kriminaliteten og fattigdommen i deres fortid. Så efter at være blevet kontaktet på et motorvejscaferia af en mand der tilbyder 500 dollars for en tur til Omaha, spekulerer de på, om lykken er på vej i deres retning.

Ved første øjekast ser det ud som lette penge, men efter få timer i bilen er manden død.

Nick White is the only person who can save Abigail Pierce. After uncovering a plot to have her killed, he attempts to warn her but instead puts himself squarely in the crosshairs. They know who he is, they know where he lives, they know how to get at his family.

Für Evan Teller läuft alles rund, er hat eine gute Stellung, eine wunderschöne Verlobte und die Chance, Partner bei seinem Arbeitsgeber zu werden. Doch seine Welt stürzt in dunkler Nacht auf leerer Straße ein. Eine falsche Entscheidung verwandelt seinen Lebenstraum in einen Albtraum voller Vertuschungen und Lügen.

Als Universitätsprofessor Jake Reese von zwei Männern auf einem Parkplatz überfallen wird und sie ihm einen Ringfinger abschneiden, versucht er dies als einen Fall von "zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort" abzutun. Doch als die Ereignisse eine düstere Wendung nehmen und seine Frau, Diane, verschwindet, weiß Jake, dass er sich nicht länger vor der Wahrheit verstecken kann.

To keep the light of his life, he'll have to do some dark things. After Matt Caine loses his wife in a car accident, all he has left is his daughter, Anna. But just as the little girl - who survived the accident - finally starts thriving, Matt's former in-laws threaten to take her away via a bitter custody battle. Desperate to keep Anna and in debt to some dangerous local thugs, Matt has no good options. But he does have Jay, one very bad friend.

Welcome to Beaumont Cove, a slowly decaying tourist town at the edge of the world, and the place where Maggie James’s worst fears for her estranged twin sister, Lilly, have come true. Lilly is dead, and Maggie has arrived to identify her body. Lilly’s husband, Mike, is in custody for her murder. With the help of the local sheriff, a retired private investigator, and a strange but friendly carnival psychic, Maggie begins to uncover the truth about what really happened to her sister. But the truth comes at a price....

In John Rector’s dark and fascinating psychological thriller, The Grove, farmer Dexter McCray becomes both detective and suspect. He is a man fighting to escape a troubled past, but after waking from an alcoholic blackout to discover his tractor stuck in a ditch and the body of a teenage girl in the cottonwood grove bordering his cornfield, he wonders if it’s a fight he cannot win. In the hopes of proving his innocence, he sets out to find the truth.