Crime, Up Close and Personal: Stories of Mystery and Suspense - format ePub

From the mean streets of "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin" to the sleepy suburbs…From the grime of the Boston subways to a tavern in the afterlife…From sandy ancient Israel to the plains of the Serengeti…Award-winning...

"Rabbit" Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside and unlikely basketball player in Offensive Foul, continues his high school sports journey in Bottom of the Ninth.While struggling...

“Rabbit” Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside, returns in Offensive Foul, where he faces even stiffer odds on the basketball court. While battling to secure his place on the...

Have you ever dreamed of an entire school reading your book? Would you like to double (or more!) your writing income?  This book shows you how.  Drawing from his own first-hand experience, David H. Hendrickson...

Huram, the Phoenician, crafts bronze masterpieces for King Solomon's temple. When the two most highly prized pieces disappear, suspicion falls on the only three Israelites in the camp. With one of them...

From a little blue fuzzy monster in a Casanova's pants... to a movie star wannabe raising money for her boob job.From rival Key West female impersonators... to the wife of the Biblical King David.From...

Nothing much happens in Fernville, New Hampshire—aka Sleepyville, USA. Eventually even cops there turn soft, like marshmallows. When murder comes to Sleepyville, the case falls to the softest marshmallow...

“I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of...

Trashing their wedding dresses seems like a wild and fun way for Beth and Jenna to celebrate their anniversaries.But an unexpected visitor interrupts their plans. Beth's abusive mother haunts Beth's dress,...

Daenali returns to a farm where years earlier she stole food to stay alive, intending to repay her debt. Instead, she encounters a man beating his pregnant wife. To save the woman, Daenali must kill the...

After David slays Goliath, he falls head over heels in love with himself. But he's not alone. King Saul's daughter Michal intends to become his wife even if her father offers her sister's hand in marriage.It's...

At a small town casino in Oregon, Icepick Louie tells all the bumpkins how minor league their casino, their town, and their state are. He then rubs their noses in it, betting twenty thousand bills that...

Can Devin Patrick O'Donnell spend St. Patrick's Day barhopping with a leprechaun without so much as touching a drop of the spirits? The leprechaun has offered a pot of gold. How hard can it be?Bestselling...

"Rabbit" Labelle loves football, but the tiny, rural Maine town where he lives isn't big enough to support a team. After his father moves the family to the big, bad city, Rabbit finally gets his chance...

Daenali violates one of the oldest customs of her tribe: she convinces her betrothed to take her surname. The council of patriarchs deems this witchcraft and banishes her after considering far, far worse.Daenali...

Walter and Edith have lived a satisfying life together. But an anonymous fiftieth anniversary gift offers a chance to be twenty years old all over again. For one of them.A dark-edged fantasy by award-winning...

When their worst nightmare is haunting them again Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto, were just high school students until they were recruited by the Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA)...

NIKOLAIIt was supposed to be only a distraction. One anonymous night in Paris. One taste of her innocence. One angel claimed my heart.Still, I walked away before she saw the monster lurking inside me.Now...

A spine-tingling special you won’t want to miss! From the vaults of our acclaimed horror anthology Hello Darkness comes a special one-shot issue! Get ready for a curated collection overflowing with grimy,...

He was the one man she could never have.She was the only woman he would ever love.Gordon and Beauty live by the rules their worlds have set—his filled with scandal, hers with vows of faith.But one chance...

Cycle of Love is an evocative collection of four short stories that delves into the complex emotions surrounding love, loneliness, heartbreak and self-realization. Each tale represents a unique perspective...

Their storybook romance didn't have a happily ever after… but he's back to rewrite their ending.When Assistant Chief of Police Elaine Potter's book club picks a steamy rockstar romance, she doesn't expect...

Vander, with his alluring charm and shady intentions, has sunk his claws into Lee's mind, twisting his thoughts until they churn with sickness. Wyatt and the others turn to an unlikely ally: Nova, Vander's...

The disappearance of Rayna sets off a chain of events that tests the limits of obsession, love and loyalty. Her boyfriend, Wyatt, along with her friends, embarks on a desperate search to find her. Rayna...

SophiaThe mafia world was never for me, but fate enveloped me in its darkness, and I fell in love with the dark-hearted devil. His father may have tried to use me as a pawn, but Massimo never did.He thinks...

An impossible signal. A discovery that shouldn't exist. And a future that may already be in motion.Astrophysicist Logan "LJ" James is searching for anomalies—faint signatures buried in deep-space data...

Cologne, 1942. Seventeen-year-old Karin Blik breaks curfew on the night of the thousand-bomber raid and stumbles into a web that reaches back to Luxembourg and the father whose death was never truly explained....

In a world where disaster is prevented before it begins, the most dangerous act is arriving too late.Orison does not demand obedience. It offers relief, clarity, and timing so precise that human judgment...

Snow brings Harper Lane to Cedar Hollow.Love convinces her to stay.Everything changes in the hush of falling snow.Burnt-out novelist Harper Lane flees the noise of New York for a tiny winter retreat in...

An epic collection of mind-shattering stories that vault across the cosmos.A woman looking for her father. A crew trapped on a bizarre planet. A researcher stuck inside her models.And More.Seven blistering...

Maya is fiercely independent, but her life changes forever when she is sold to the mysterious Damian Blackwood. She doesn't understand why he wants her or why he's so adamant that she stay by his side....

Step into the shadows of Tales of Three Tree Hollows a chilling collection of suspense, mystery, horror, and science fiction where survival is never guaranteed, and the unknown lurks just beyond the edge...

The Cycle failed. There was no warning.No prophecy.No one left in charge to explain what came next. The Anomaly is not an origin story. It is what remains after one. In a world that feels normal enough...

The realms of passion and duty collide to push boundaries. Dirge, an incubus condemned to sing sorrowful hymns at funerals, finds himself inexplicably drawn to Dr. Xolani Coleman. She captivates him,...

Courage illuminates the path when fear stands in the way.The Adventures of Luna the Brave centers on Luna, an inquisitive and compassionate young hero who learns that true bravery isn't the absence of...

How far would you go to uncover a deadly truth?When a brilliant young doctor notices strange patterns in patient deaths at a top hospital, suspicion turns into a terrifying discovery. Behind the polished...

In 1819, Captain John Smith discovered the Ajanta Caves… but the Bhil tribes say he missed the most important one: Cave 31, the 'Star Library.'Now, adventurers Ishaan Deshmukh and Meera Kulkarni must...

Waking up 21 has never been so deadly.Harley Sterling expected a hangover after her milestone birthday; she didn't expect to wake up in a pool of blood. Trapped in the apartment of her ex, Johnny Blackthorne,...

Welcome back to Lupine Meadow, where love is unexpected, and the werewolves are mostly domesticated. Glory Guidry, a rougarou from southeast Louisiana, is happy with her work, friends, and community....

In the shadows of a bustling city, Nawaz's life is orderly, controlled, and predictable—until Laila enters it. A quiet office employee, she stirs something deep within him, awakening desires he thought...

In the sultry nights of Buenos Aires, where tango pulses through dimly lit streets and whispered secrets, a retired private detective recounts a story that refuses to remain buried.Drawn into a labyrinth...

Pinky Promise:The LoveThat Found Its WayBack"The Invisible String Theory"What does it mean?The Invisible String Theory posits that every person is connected to another by an unseen, intangible string—an...

She was rejected by one alpha. Fate gave her three. Now the world will burn or bow.Publicly humiliated and cast out by the mate who was supposed to cherish her, Nyssa Vale fled into the forbidden forest...

He's the noise she can't stand. She's the quiet he didn't know he needed.Clara Vance lives for order. As the head librarian of the Sterling Athenaeum, she ensures that every book, every archive, and every...

This captivating story explores the journey of Jack and Alicia, two individuals living far apart who are brought together by a single, unexpected message. As their connection deepens through conversations,...

When seventeen-year-old Maria stumbles upon a portal to faerie and discovers she is their long-lost faerie princess, she must make a decision: stay with her people or escape and find her human family...