suspense fiction

"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"--.

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.

Every day Rachel takes the same commuter train, and every day she sees the same couple--Jess and Jason she names them in her mind--eating breakfast on their deck. One day everything changes with Jess and Jason. Rachel goes to the police, but they call her an unreliable witness. Delving deeper into what happened herself, Rachel begins to suspect she has done more harm than good, and finds herself entangled in the lives of all involved.

What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah?s generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It'll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R. But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare. A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep. How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them? - Baker & Taylor.

In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come. Eleven years later she is replaced. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec. Soon the impostor is living Bec's life. Sleeping in her bed. Hugging her mother and father. Learning her best friends' names. Playing with her twin brothers. But Bec's welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. As the impostor dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter-and soon realizes that whoever took Bec is still at large, and that she is in imminent danger. As the pretender walks in Rebecca's shoes, she realizes that whoever is responsible for Bec's disappearance is still in her life. In this chilling psychological thriller, one woman's dark past becomes another's deadly future.

The threat of blackmail lures sixteen-year-old aspiring photographer Ava and nine other teens--all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost--to an abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier, and when bad weather and magic cut them off from the mainland, Ava and the others begin turning on each other, one by one.

A group of Oxford graduates in their thirties, continuing a tradition they began ten years ago, meet for Christmas break at an isolated, beautiful estate in the Scottish Highlands. A historic blizzard seals off their lodge from the world, and two days later one of the classmates is dead--and one of the other ones did it. Secret resentments come to light and the cord holding the friends together snaps.

While on a flight to Denver to start working with a mysterious client, Jake Buchannan knows he recognizes the woman sitting next to him in seat 2A; he just can't figure out from where. When the woman, Clara, reveals that she's heading to Denver to kill herself in the mountains, Jake is left reeling. As Jake begins to work with his client and Clara travels to Aspen to kill herself, they both begin to realize that their meeting was no accident and that long-forgotten events from their childhoods are coming back to haunt them in the present.

Sixteen-year-old's Jess Wong and Angie Redmond are best friends. But when Angie comes out as gay, their dynamic changes and Jess begins having feelings for Angie she can't explain. Angie falls for Margot, a girl at a rival school, but Jess sees something wrong with her, and the three become entangled in a deadly mystery.

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.