suspense fiction

When Josephine Newbury gets a new job inputting an endless string of numbers into a massive database, she feels something isn't right. Her anxiety grows with her workload until one day her devoted husband disappears. Josephine soon discovers the true nature of her work and how she can save those she holds dear.

Bibi Blair defied death after being told by her doctors that she only had one year to live. When she's told by a strange woman that she was spared death in order to save a girl named Ashley Bell, Bibi becomes obsessed with finding her. Along the way, Bibi encounters both worldly and supernatural dangers that threaten to stop her in her tracks.

After their sister Julia goes missing, twenty years pass between Claire and Lydia in which the sisters have nothing to do with one another. Claire becomes a trophy wife to a rich Atlanta man; Lydia ends up a single mother dating an ex-con. When Claire's husband is murdered and it appears connected, however implausibly, to Julia's disappearance, the estranged sisters come together to discover an astonishing truth about their family.

After being forced to kill the same terrorists two times, Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism task force with the special task of preventing the release of a bioweapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies.

The Committee is an international cabal, an online oligarchy, that is nearing its goal of privatizing all information. Standing in the cabal's way is Dear Diary, an online underground battling to keep information free for everyone. Into the middle of this shadow conflict come Leila Majnoun, Leo Crane, and Mark Dveraux. Mark doesn't know it, but he is working for the Committee. Leo, formerly Mark's friend, writes a scathing review of Mark's online work, but the Committee deletes his words. Across the world, Leila discovers the Committee's ambitions could threaten the lives of her loved ones.

Clayton Burroughs' family history is full of outlaws, generations of moonshiners, drug-runners, meth-makers, and pot-growers, living virtually untouched by the law on Bull Mountain in North Georgia. To distance himself from his family, Clayton takes the job of sheriff in a neighboring county, which makes things awkward when a federal agent shows up with a plan to shut his family down, asking for his help.

Flynn will have nothing to do with the outdoors if he can help it, preferring to leave that stuff to his little sister and his parents. So, one day when Flynn gets lost in the wilderness, after going off path, he will have to rely on a stick of gum, some lichen, and snow to stay alive in the hopes of rescue.

A young immigrant named H?ctor becomes trapped in a water truck with other immigrants while attempting cross the American border, and struggles to find a way to escape the truck and get help.

When teenager Jesse is contacted by a former victim of King, a hacker who is currently stalking Jesse, Jesse is faced with the decision whether to join with the former victim and seek revenge on King, or continue to cede to King's demands.

Music composer Peter Els also dabbles in microbiology, using science to try to find patterns in microscopic life which he might be able to turn into music. Homeland Security learns about Els' microbiology lab and worries about its potential to be used for terrorism. They show up at his house. Terrified himself, Els goes fugitive, and with help of the closest people in his life he weaves a pattern on the run that may just turn into a work of art itself.