thriller fiction

Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels off. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact -- he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

"A...story about the disappearances of two young women--a decade apart--told in reverse"--Amazon.com.

"Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples--Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana--in order to win a cash prize. But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real--and the stakes are life or death"--.

Overworked city gal Grace Evans is ready for a relaxing getaway on a Wyoming ranch, where the owner is handsome Calvin Wells. But when she hears of a missing woman, things soon change for the worse.

It's the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests' healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the "Manor Mule" cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. And yet, outside The Manor's immaculately kept grounds, and ancient forest bristles with secrets. The local community resents what they see as the Manor's intrusion into the local woods and attempts to privatize the beach, and small skirmishes have erupted on the edges of the property between locals and the staff. And the whispers keep coming, about an old piece of pagan folklore--it must be folklore--the Night Birds, an avenging force that can be called upon to make right wrongs that elude the law. Though surely everything at the Manor has been done aboveboard. On the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. There's been a fire. A body's been discovered. Something's not right with the guests. What happened on the grounds of the Manor the past 36 hours? And who--or what--is the cause? Everyone has an agenda. Everyone has a past. But not everyone will survive...The Midnight Feast.

A solar storm knocks out power across the globe, forcing Aubrey Wheeler--still reeling from the revelation of her ex-husband's criminal activities and the son he left behind for her to raise--to become fierce protector of her suburban Illinois neighborhood. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, Aubrey's neurotic brother, Thom, a wealthy tech company CEO, plans to ride out the apocalypse in his maximum comfort and security desert bunker. However, the siblings' complicated history will come back to haunt them, and at the end of the world the two will have to come to several reckonings before the real end.

Nine survivors of a decades-old tragedy come together each year to commemorate a high school tragedy, but when two of the survivors commit suicide in different years on the anniversary of the event, the remaining members come together to support one another and uncover the mystery of why the survivors are dying.

For their Nana's eightieth birthday party, Daisy Darker and her entire estranged family assembles on Nana's tidal island and in her disintegrating, Gothic house. When the tide comes in, the whole family will be trapped together on the island for eight hours, and, when a storm hits at midnight, one of them finds Nana's murdered corpse. Her death is followed one hour later by that of another family member, and Daisy realizes there is a killer among the Darkers.

Adam and Amelia Wright have been married for ten years, but things are not going well. So, in attempt to save their marriage, they go on a weekend getaway to Scotland for their anniversary. When they arrive at the remote, derelict church, things start to go terribly wrong and they find themselves trapped by a snowstorm. Soon, it becomes apparent that someone lured them there, and they must discover who before it's too late.

Abigail Lovett manages The Passage Inn near the Appalachian Trail in the mountains of North Carolina. However, the town where the resort is located has a troubled past--it is the last-known location of a series of missing persons. When journalist Landon West comes to investigate the case, he too disappears. Then Landon's brother Trey arrives to find his brother. Abby thinks his efforts are in vain until she finds a key piece of evidence, putting Abby herself in danger.