suspense fiction

When beautiful, eighteen-year-old Rosie goes missing and later is found brutally murdered, Kate, who has a daughter the same age, is deeply troubled by the idea that anyone would murder a member of such a seemingly wonderful family. And the closer she gets to Rosie's family, the more troubling the situation becomes.

Kyra is one of the Returned, having been abducted by aliens and now apparently no longer fully human, but something else. She has possible telekinesis, can hold her breath a great while, and her body heals itself at an accelerated rate. The Daylighters, a shadow organization, are after her, and will certainly experiment on her if they catch her. When Kyra and the Returned learn that their friend Tyler has been captured by the Daylighters, they mount a desperate rescue mission.

Searching for a mysterious hacker when her Overworld team is invited to compete in an exclusive tournament, Marisa discovers that the event is rife with corruption, infighting, and dangers that render winning the only way to survive.

"In Boston and an ocean away, in Ireland, two young women--both virgins--find themselves pregnant. Around the world, epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse threaten major cities. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering, and former nun turned P.I. Anne Fitzgerald investigates the immaculate conceptions to discover the truth--and to save the young women, and possibly herself."--back cover.

Three years after her sister's murderer walked free and Alex Craft skillfully achieves her vengeance without detection, she begins to form a friendship with the preacher's daughter and draws the attention of popular Jack Fisher, until the dark side of Alex finds its way out.

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland." Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.

Mia Dennett, in an effort to get back at her on-again, off-again boyfriend for standing her up, leaves a bar with Colin Thatcher, who seemed like a safe one-night stand. However, Colin takes Mia and hides her in a cabin in rural Minnesota. That was not what he was supposed to do, though, and his "employers" will not be happy when they find out. Meanwhile, Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman are on the trail.

After his wife, Dr. Emory Charbonneau, disappears on a North Carolina mountain road, Jeff is accused of murder. However, Emory is alive, but not well--waking from unconsciousness, she finds herself captive to a man whose dark past keeps him from telling her his name. As her captivity goes on, however, Emory wonders if this man is not actually her savior, and that the real threat is still out there coming for her.

The stranger is an unknown being who can appear anywhere and everywhere, whispering a few words that can shatter alliances and families, then disappearing. Adam Price is the stranger's latest target. He tells Adam a secret about his beautiful wife, Corinne, which shatters Adam's comfortable life of the American dream. As Adam investigates, he realizes he has stumbled on to a conspiracy that, if not stopped, will not only ruin his life, but end it.

Ten years after Izzy Stone's mother shot her father and was commited to an insane asylum, Izzy;s foster parents enlist Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-abandoned state asylum. Izzy finds letters from an eighteen year old girl, Clara, who may have been sent there even though she might have been sane, causing Izzy to question whether her mother's act was one of insanity or caused by something else.