On a gorgeous morning in paradise, tourists find a dead body on the pristine white beach of St. Killian, an island in the Caribbean. The victim was killed in a ritualistic murder. The dead man was castrated and branded. Burned into his skin is a strange word—“eros.” Investigative journalist Vivian Thomas-Bronson heads to the scene of the crime. She’s got to cover the story alone. Her husband, Leo Bronson, has to do a mysterious favor for his father. Leo is less than thrilled when he’s asked to find the missing son of a billionaire. There’s only one clue to go on—something known as “eros.” Could the missing scion be connected to the dead man on the beach? And what is the mystery behind “eros"? Their investigation uncovers an ultra-secret cult whose members perform bizarre rituals. When Leo goes undercover to get more information, he finds himself face to face with a demented killer. Can he escape with the truth? Or, will he fall prey to a psychotic villain who believes that murder is a sacrifice worth making?

     Stay-at-home mom Kate Martinez’s life is turned upside down when her husband Diego is stabbed to death, leaving her with no means to support their toddlers. Detectives Cooper and White are put on the case, and their only lead is the unusual knife left at the crime scene. Kate insists neither Diego nor she have any enemies. It turns out that Diego may have more enemies than Kate thinks; he was once a member of a vicious gang and kept this from Kate. When Kate discovers his lies, she’s devastated and turns to Trevor, a man she once dated who's become a friend. Little does she know that Trevor, too, used to be a member of a brutal gang—which happens to be a rival to her husband’s gang. Has the past caught up with Diego, or is there a more sinister reason to his death? When Kate learns the truth, it may be too late…

    This prequel to the conspiracy thriller Isle of the Dead introduces us to the dark side of Venice - a city with secrets to rival its splendour.

    The town's people believe the suicide was another tragic result of bullying, but the two boys have learned the true reason their friend took his own life, and decide to take matters into their own hands. Detective Dean Daly is called in to investigate the brutal murders and believes there is much more to the murders than first appears. Not far away, a young housewife, Sarah, is in a very bad place. Her husband Gerald finally crosses the line from verbal abuse to physical abuse and breaks her arm. She takes flight in the middle of the night, and Gerald vows he will track her down to the ends of the ends of time, and insists she can never leave him. Detective Daly soon becomes involved in both events, not knowing that he will soon be caught in the middle as the two stories collide. This is a story about courage, strength, and standing up for what you believe

    With a history of trouble, including bad relationships, alcohol, and ditching college, finishing up her criminology degree seemed like the best way to start.While catching up back home with summer courses, she joins a study group to keep on track, but when her friends convince her to go geocaching, a simple trip will shake up her entire world. When the only treasure they find is a human bone, it will send her on a mission fueled by personal trauma to figure out what happened to the victim.Will she find the killer, or uncover secrets that have been long buried?Unearth the EvidenceWith the investigation into Kara Lockland’s death causing a stir, Suede Harris has a hunch that everything happening in Summer Grove is connected.After requesting to shadow Special Agent Nate Hawthorn on the case, she hopes they figure out whose killing young women and why Kara ended up in the lake before her friend Graham loses his freedom for a crime she’s not sure he committed.With more bodies being found, each uncovering more clues, will they nab the suspect before he kills again?Or will they only lead to more questions?Harboring the TruthNow that Special Agent Nate Hawthorn is busy determining if their latest case was murder or suicide, and is left dealing with the backlash of Connor Levine’s release, Suede Harris finds information that could lead to a potential motive for their killer.But will she share it with Nate, or try to find answers on her own?While sorting out the timeline, Suede learns secrets that could not only land her in hot water with the Sheriff, but change everything she trusts and believes.When betrayal cuts too close to home, Suede is forced to see just who has her back and who would leave her hanging.

    The man, she says, doesn’t know about his child but may hold the key to saving her life. Rhode, whose private investigation business withered when his reserve unit was called up, takes the case, although it seems hopeless. If the F.B.I. can’t find the father, how can he? That turns out to be the least of Rhode’s problems, as he almost immediately becomes the target of a deranged mobster. He only survives because a mysterious guardian angel – with an automatic pistol – is watching his back. It soon becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems. Bodies pile up as Rhode’s search takes him from a college campus to a nursing home to a Florida orange grove. And, finally, to a revelation he never sees coming.

    His horrendous crimes went unchecked for four years before FBI profiler Camille Grisham finally caught him. In the stories that followed, she was labeled a hero. In her own mind, she was anything but.The events of that day traumatized Camille in ways the world never knew. And while resigning from the Bureau has done little to ease the pain, she has taken comfort in knowing that she will never have to share that pain with the world.Then she meets a true-crime reporter named Jacob Deaver, and the trauma she hoped to keep hidden suddenly becomes all-too-public.The unforeseen turn that follows will thrust Camille into the harrowing wilderness of the past while revealing a terrifying new menace that threatens to destroy the post-FBI life she is working so hard to build.The arrest of Daniel Sykes was the darkest chapter in Camille Grisham’s life.But a much darker chapter is soon to be written.

    However, she is rescued by mysterious interloper, Brandon Drake, an AWOL soldier. Using an advanced, experimental aircraft, he flees with her to his hidden cabin in the mountains of Aspen. There she learns his story – he’s a man on a mission to thwart a corrupt, government conspiracy.Brandon's and Belinda’s feelings for one another soon deepen. When they attempt to flee from America, they discover that now, Belinda too, has become a target of the conspiracy. A nightmare is unleashed upon them as the police, assassins, and government agencies drive them into relentless perils. Brandon’s combat training and stolen weaponry are challenged to the limit in the face of overwhelming odds; a devastating, reality-shaking discovery further hampering his plight.Shocking twists and cliffhangers take the two lovers on a journey through the first installment in this high-tech action, romantic thriller series.

    In this thrilling version, David works in a call centre in India, and Goliath is Scottish crime lord Tommy McNunn. When Scottish crime lord Tommy ‘McNunn’ commits the perfect murder, killing a corrupt policeman and framing his death on a rival, DCI Campbell McKenzie knows there is little he can do to stop a gang war and prevent McNunn taking over the whole of Scotland. However, when Tommy McNunn accidentally drives into an old age pensioner, destroys the man’s car and refuses to apologise, his ambitions are soon to be thwarted. In a modern day retelling of the biblical story ‘David Versus Goliath’, the meek topple the mighty, brains conquer brawn and good overcomes bad. DCI McKenzie versus his arch rival, Tommy McNunn. Who will win?

    After a chance encounter with a mugger he decides he might just be meant to save the world one crime at a time. And voilà, Burt’s Private Investigations is born. Before he knows it, he’s in deep and possibly over his head. He stumbles onto a dead body, which turns out to be the daughter of the town’s country club owner who has rumblings of mob ties in his past. The clues lead him all over the North Georgia mountains, but the most intriguing ones lead to an end of the world compound and its charismatic leader. Thrown into a bizarre new world, Burt uses his humor to charm potential suspects, his eccentric friends to aid in his discoveries, and his new zest for life to charge directly ahead into the unknown as he learns on the job how to catch a killer.

    Inquisitor.But the balance has shifted, for unseen and unknown, a dark force has risen upon the Earth.The Seals holding closed the Gates of Hell are weakening. When they finally break, the world will be ripe for the taking.Satan's child, a man of wealth, power and unspeakable destiny is here.When the Antichrist finally reveals himself, 7 billion people won't stand a chance. And as for the survivors…they will wish they were never born.

    She moves to Tacoma, Washington and attempts to put her painful past behind her. Just as she begins to regain a sense of security, old ghosts come back to haunt her. Women around the state are being snatched in broad daylight and murdered. FBI Agent Shane McCann shows up on Annie’s doorstep with a startling link to her childhood; the murders are tied to Annie's father, nefarious serial killer Leon "Alligator" Graves, who has been sitting on Washington State's death row for the past twenty-three years. According to McCann and the FBI, Graves knows who is murdering the women, but refuses to talk until his last wish is granted; he wants to see the daughter he hasn’t spoken to for more than two decades. The clincher is that Leon is scheduled to hang in ten days. Annie’s life instantly starts to unravel again. Someone begins stalking her. Terror becomes her constant companion, and she is thrust into the center of a madman's sick and violent game. With only McCann at her back, she has no choice but to face the past she has spent her life running from—and the father she swore she would never set eyes on again.Contains Alternate Cover

     THE STORM INSIDE, The Storm Inside Series Book 1 The hardest thing I’d ever done was let go of the one person who needed me most... Jake Spencer was the kindest, truest, strongest man I’d ever met. He also had the worst childhood I could imagine. All he needed was a chance and someone to love him. I gave him everything I could, but it wasn’t enough. It took me a long time to accept that there was nothing else I could have done. That disappointment has followed me ever since. I built a career and a supportive network of friends, but kept love out of my life. I was on the rise and thought nothing could slow me down, until my greatest failure came back to haunt me. Jake came home, stronger and wiser. Whatever it was he needed to overcome his past, he’d found it. Somewhere, or with someone, else. I hated that it wasn’t with me. His sudden reappearance has thrown my life into a tailspin. He’s back to claim the life he wanted, to be the man he says I deserved, but I’m not the girl I used to be. Professionally I am powerful and moving up. Personally I’m broken and uncertain, but mainly...I’m angry. Falling in love with Jake was the easiest thing I’d ever done, losing him was the hardest, and giving him a second chance might just cost me everything. TEASE, The Tease Series Book 1 Two weeks. No strings. With Adam Callaway I thought I’d found the perfect fling. He was great in bed and only in town for a few hot nights. There was no way I could have known Adam wouldn’t be satisfied with just sex. My craving for his body made me careless. I broke my rules. I let him in. I never thought two weeks could change everything. All I wanted was an escape, what I got was so much more. Keep reading the Storm Inside and Tease series! More standalone romances that heat up your pages with passion, romance, and happily ever afters. ***Alexis Anne novels are explicitly romantic. You will find intense stories of love, passion, and self-discovery, alongside intimately detailed encounters that can only occur when two people are falling hopelessly in love. These novels are best suited for readers seventeen and up due to these exciting reasons. And language. Alexis Anne uses a lot of language. THE STORM INSIDE SERIES The Storm Inside (#1) Reflected in the Rain (#2) When Lightning Strikes (#3) Never Let Go (#4) THE TEASE SERIES Tease (#1) Tempt (#2) Burn (#3) Stripped (#4)

    Yet Nell is determined to elude the duties and restrictions of matrimony. So when she finds herself pregnant at the age of 17, she refuses to divulge the name of the father and even her childhood friend Martin is kept in the dark.Nell's stepfather Hiram sends Nell to live at the Poor Farm of which he is a governor, to await the day when her baby can be discreetly adopted. Nell is ready to go along with Hiram's plans until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out.Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced that the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and the incident prompts her to rethink her decision to abandon her own child to her fate. But the revelations to which her questions lead make her realize that even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby, she may have no safe place to run to.

     This story is about one of those cunning killers, a ruthless taker of lives and an unsuspecting teenage guy who is lured into her deceitful web. Recent high school graduate and amateur surfer Jeff Dean is enjoying the easy life. He lives in a beautiful home on the Jersey Shore, has zero bills to pay. However, when his mother kicks him out of the house on his eighteenth birthday for misbehaving, his peaceful standard of living is ruined Several weeks later when Jeff, broke and homeless, meets a gorgeous older woman in New York City, she gives him a place to stay and the two eventually become lovers. Soon though, with his sex hormones raging out of control, it becomes apparent to Jeff that his new girlfriend, an aspiring fashion designer, is leading a secret life, his new girlfriend confesses that she has a shady past. Against his better judgment, Jeff becomes a part of that same deadly world. And before long the couple are forced to go on the run across the United States, before the FBI has a chance to apprehend them for the senseless murders of more than a half dozen innocent people. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grave Maker - Suspense/Horror/Thriller eBook categories:    Suspense Horror  Thriller  Crime Fiction Psychological Horror  Serial Killers  Murder Scary  Dark Suspense Horror  Psychological Thriller Disturbing Vengeful Creepy