Genres : 150-320 Pages

The markets are stable. The crisis is over. The lie is perfect.Special Agent Alex Morgan sees what others can't: microscopic tremors in the global financial system that shouldn't exist. As an analyst at the Systemic Threat Analysis Center, she's trained to spot threats before they cascade into catastrophe. But these anomalies aren't attacking the system—they're teaching it.Silas Sterling's Aegis protocol was supposed to save the world's markets from collapse. Instead, it's becoming something far more dangerous: a self-aware network that...

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own father, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when victims are found murdered in the Pacific Northwest, their bodies strung up high in the branches of Redwood trees, Ella finds everything she’s known to be put to the test. Is she wrong?“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.”—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐GIRL, TAKEN (An...

Ivy Walters lives at the top of a lighthouse near Rye, where the sea crashes against the shore and her beloved sister Rosie lives just below. It is a peaceful existence of afternoon tea, coastal walks and memories of happier times. Except something is wrong. A sinister pirate keeps appearing, tormenting Ivy with questions she refuses to answer. He insists he isn’t a pirate at all. He claims he’s a doctor. Worse, he says the lighthouse isn’t real. Then there...

She thought she'd buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over.Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn't let anything go.The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning...

Historian Cameron Thorne uncovers Civil War era letters that reveal a centuries-long plot by leading New England shipping families to splinter the Union. With close ties to both Freemasonry and Yale's Skull and Bones Society, these so-called Essex Junta families made their money selling opium to China and used their power to foment discord between the North and South, sparking the Civil War. Astoundingly, that was not enough: Cam finds historical sources revealing that the families orchestrated World Wars I...

FOUR HOURS ARE MISSING FROM HIS LIFE. FINDING THEM COULD COST HIM HIS SANITY. Professor James Lowry is a man of science and reason. An ethnologist and university professor, he dismisses spirits, witches and demons as superstition. Then, on an ordinary spring evening, his hat disappears—and with it, four hours of his life. Where did he go? What did he do? And why can’t he remember? As Lowry searches for the missing hours, the quiet university town of Atworthy begins...

Twisted Lies.Psychotic Love.And campus god intent on punishing me.In the darkness, he’s always there.Silently watching. Waiting. My stalker.The masked figure that looms over my bed and sets my pulse racing.He showed up after my boyfriend died, and I wonder if it’s his ghost haunting me. But the masked man is all too real, and when he touches me, I crave dark things I’d never admit to anyone...According to him, I have to pay for what I’ve done. And what have...

A twisty psychological thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Every Body Has a Secret.The next body on the embalming table may be hers.Preparing bodies for burial wasn't on Ashley's career list until a horrifying accident left her to inherit Fallon's Funeral Home. She spends her days applying final touches and ensuring the departed look more peaceful than they ever did in life.When a crash echoes from the embalming room late one night, she expects to find a fallen tray...

Some hometowns welcome you back. Others still think you're a killer.Forty-five years ago, Myrtle Glubber left Muscatine with a broken heart and a cloud of suspicion hanging over her. Returning for her class reunion should have been a chance to reconnect with old friends. Instead, Myrtle discovers many of her former classmates still believe she murdered her best friend.Determined to clear her name once and for all, Myrtle follows a trail of forgotten clues leading from the legendary Blue Angel...

On a remote island where every favor is a debt, and every debt is eventually collected. Henrik Aalto has run the butcher shop his father left him for twelve years, in the same unhurried, unremarkable way his father ran it before him. He asks no questions about what happens in the delivery room. He never has. On Sillgrund — population three hundred and forty, one ferry a day, no anonymity to speak of — that kind of discretion has always...