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Whisper Hollow - Marnie Frost Mysteries Series 2

Genres: General Fiction, Horror, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

When paranormal investigator Marnie Frost receives an anonymous letter describing strange phenomena in a remote West Virginia town, she is compelled to follow its trail. The letter claims that the forest outside Whisper Hollow has begun calling residents by name, using their own voices. Driven by curiosity and her professional instincts, Marnie travels to Whisper Hollow, a decaying rural community nestled in the northeastern mountains. This town is steeped in tradition, where secrets are passed down through generations and the forest always feels unnervingly close. Residents have learned to avoid certain questions and stay off particular roads after dark. Someone has deliberately drawn Marnie to Whisper Hollow, and she is determined to discover their purpose. As Marnie delves deeper, she learns that the mystery goes beyond mere voice mimicry and the residents’ fear of the woods. Beneath Whisper Hollow’s quiet façade lies a centuries-old covenant between its founding family and...

The Drowning Hour - Marnie Frost Mysteries Series 1

Genres: General Fiction, Horror, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Some houses whisper. This one sings. And it remembers every note. When private investigator Marnie Frost arrives at the Captain’s Rest Inn on the storm-wracked coast of Maine, she expects another haunted property, another grieving family, another case of folklore dressed as fear. But the inn isn’t just haunted—it’s hungry. The tide has vanished. Mirrors weep salt. Guests wake with songs they’ve never heard on their lips. And beneath it all is a name the sea won’t stop repeating: Ezra Cutter—long-dead mariner, tragic groom, and keeper of a vow never fulfilled. As Marnie unravels the spectral history of the Cutter family, she’s pulled deeper into a legacy of drowned brides, forgotten rituals, and a doorway that doesn’t open with a key—but with a name. To close the case, she’ll have to open the door. To survive, she’ll have to remember what she promised not to. Because in Cutter’s Bay, memory...

Chesterfield

Genres: Crime, General Fiction, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Daniel Chesterfield is a 6’7” foul mouthed straight arrow with a trite sense of humor and deep love and respect for law, order, and justice. Trading in his detective shield in Palm Beach County, Florida for a Sheriff’s badge in the rural town of Cowbell, Montana, he assumes the responsibility of overhauling the ill-reputed Bear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Sub-Station. Not much of a challenge for a career lawman, right? Wrong! None of the deputies have any formal training, no prior experience in law enforcement, they don’t wear uniforms, and they use their personal vehicles to patrol the county. Ridiculed by other agencies and fellow law enforcement officers because of their ineptitude, Chesterfield is determined to provide the necessary training needed to transform them into reputable and capable deputies that will command the respect and honor of the townspeople. The competency of the sheriff’s office and its deputies is put...

Hearts of Aphra

Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

At 3:15 a.m., the ear-splitting alarm sounded. Seconds later, the blinding white light appeared. When it was over, five hundred Antelope Creek, Arizona residents lay dead, their remains a ghostly shade of white, their bodies completely bloodless. Survivors are left stunned by the strange phenomena. They’re scared and want answers that no one is able to provide. Not the CDC, WHO, or the EPA. This leads many of the residents to create their own theories about what transpired in their town. Old Jedediah Hodges swears that aliens are to blame. Maizie Guthrie is convinced that the Rapture has taken place. Jimmy Ray Wheeler believes it’s a Russian nuclear attack. Others worry that a deadly plague has been released upon the world, destined to eradicate humankind. There’s just one problem with those hypotheses. They’re all wrong. The extraordinary truth is uncovered inside the bodies during post-mortems, and the reality is beyond...

The Meadows

Genres: General Fiction, Horror, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Murder. Unexplainable disappearances. Illegal surveillance inside private homes. Human organ trafficking. A secret society with unorthodox customs. Are these occurrences mere coincidences, or are the inexplicable phenomena connected? Welcome to Sunnyside Meadows, an elite community housing eclectic, bizarre citizens, one of whom is a cold-blooded murderer hiding in plain sight. Undercover FBI Agents Cal and Janna Dillard are sent to Newton, Pennsylvania to investigate reports of a human organ trafficking ring, unaware that the home they’re assigned to in the Meadows was the site of two grisly murders a month prior. Their residency inadvertently involves them in a homicide investigation being conducted by Dale Benson, a dogged detective who’s committed to proving that Bill and Barbara Hamner were murdered by someone in the neighborhood. Collaborating to solve both cases, what they uncover is disturbing and unlike any assignment they’ve ever been embroiled in. A unique clique led by the mysterious...

A Killing of Sparrows - DeeDee Olsen Series 3

Genres: General Fiction, Womens Fiction, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

In this third installment of the Ghost Girl series, Dr. DeeDee Olsen Blanchard and Police Chief, Christi Newsome, investigate when a fourteen-year-old is arrested for shoplifting. Sage Barclay committed the crime intentionally wanting to get caught. The reasons why are alarming and disturbing. Her mother’s new boyfriend, Neil Comstock, has taken up residence with them, and he’s mentally and verbally abusive to Sage. Her mother, Doris, doesn’t believe the stories her daughter has told her about her beau. Why should she? He never mistreats Sage in her presence. Doris is convinced that Sage is jealous over the relationship her mother has with Neil and is trying to split them up. When Doris and Neil are summoned to the police station after Sage’s arrest, DeeDee immediately realizes there’s a problem with Neil Comstock when she sees the spirits of two young girls who have attached themselves to him. It doesn’t stop...

We're All Dead Here

Genres: Horror, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

From the author of Ghost Girl and Hurricane comes a collection of her best horror short stories and novellas. We’re All Dead Here contains ten tales of bone-chilling terror. Snowbound finds a young woman stranded on a desolate highway during a blizzard, a road that she was warned to stay off of. Sheltered inside her car, she is being stalked by night creatures with a thirst for human blood. In Midnight At the Morgue, night watchman, Carlo Ranerry, gets trapped in the basement morgue during a power outage – and he’s not alone. What was supposed to be a pleasure trip to New York City turns into a sky terror when the small private jet is hi-jacked in Flight of Fancy. Other stories included are Autopsy, What Grows In the Garden, Riders On the Storm, Dentophobia, Kitty Kibbles, The Rocking Chair, and Scenic Route. All of these stories are nail-biting...

Apollyon's War

Genres: Dystopian, General Fiction, Horror
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

On January 20, 2025, Lucius Belvedere Maximus is inaugurated as the newly appointed President of the United States. Loved and admired by an astronomical and loyal following, he’s not your average politician. In fact, he’s not even human. Under the guise of a mortal man, Apollyon the Destroyer has been elected to the highest office in the land. His mission? To sow worldwide discord, chaos, death, and destruction. With the assistance of his Vice President, Greg Coates, they launch and unleash Operation Wormwood, a lethal, manmade virus designed to annihilate mankind. The incurable disease has a 99% mortality rate and is remarkably transmissible, killing its victims within hours of becoming infected. With the deadly viral outbreak raging across the world, catastrophic events increase in occurrence and intensity. Earthquakes, cataclysmic storms, locust invasions, floods, raging wildfires, and global volcanic eruptions are all precursors to the impending grand finale. The few survivors...

The Fall of Autumn's Becoming

Genres: General Fiction, Womens Fiction, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

On October 18, 2013, Autumn Marie Jensen disappeared from Gunney's on Route 93 in Kingman, Arizona. On October 18, 2024, she returned with no knowledge of her eleven-year absence, thrusting her into a life where nothing and no one is as she remembers. Her husband, Simon, is remarried, her two children are adults, and her best friend can't be located. Where was she for all those years, and why can't she remember what happened to her? Is the Autumn who returned to Kingman the same woman who vanished? The new version of her possesses an uncanny ability that the old version didn't. The power to heal the sick and injured. Her unexpected return wasn’t happenstance. She came back to fulfill a specific mission, one that will ultimately lead to her having to make the most important decision of her life. Making a choice between who lives, and who dies?

A Requiem for Revenge

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

The crypt located on Row 2 Column 6 at Greenview Cemetery Mausoleum has been disintegrated. The coffin once interred inside the crypt now lies empty on the concrete floor of the vault. Its wood is cracked and shattered. The shredded satin lining of the coffin appears as though fingernails clawed through the fabric. The body of recently entombed Bradley Cavanaugh is missing. Dead men can’t escape from their graves and walk away, can they? Sheriff Nick Dunn of the Carter County Sheriff's Office doesn’t believe in the supernatural and is convinced that the incident is an act of vandalism carried out by a gang of juvenile hoodlums. When the missing body fails to turn up in a search of the cemetery, Dunn opens his investigation into the macabre and bizarre case. Through Patrice Cavanaugh, widow of the deceased, and her sister, Gabby Morgan, Dunn learns that Bradley Cavanaugh was an...

The Children In the Woods - DeeDee Olsen Series 2

Genres: General Fiction, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Ghost Girl DeeDee Olsen Blanchard is back with another supernatural case to solve. Now an adult and Child Psychologist, she practices medicine in her hometown of Pahokee, Florida. New patient, seven-year-old Ethan Portman, is brought to DeeDee by his mother for treatment of what she believes is a dissociative disorder, telling DeeDee that he has always been a happy and loving child but has suddenly become despondent, refuses to eat, and no longer plays with his toys. Upon her assessment of, and conversation with Ethan, DeeDee discovers that his condition isn’t medically related. Ethan is being haunted by the dead twin brother that he never knew existed who is attempting to persuade him to join him so that they can be together forever. To Dee Dee’s shock and dismay, she understands that the only way her patient can be with his dead brother is for him to die as well....

Ghost Girl - DeeDee Olsen Series 1

Genres: Thriller, Womens Fiction, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

In this first installment of the Ghost Girl Series, Dr. Diedre “DeeDee” Olsen Blanchard shares how, at the age of fourteen, she came to acquire her phenomenal paranormal abilities, how she uses them to assist local law enforcement and provide solace to those grieving the deaths of loved ones. On the eastern bank of Lake Okeechobee, deep in the black gold of the Glades, lies the rural farming community of Pahokee. Famous for its agriculture, tropical fruits, fishing, airboats, and alligators, it’s also the home of DeeDee Olsen. And where a cold-blooded murderer is on the loose. In the fall of 1978, the town is in a panic when the Homecoming Queen disappears after the Homecoming football game. Last seen with her abusive boyfriend and his equally abusive friends, DeeDee is convinced that they’re responsible for her disappearance. Without evidence proving that they committed a crime, telling the police chief...

Dream Weavers

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

When Joan Buchanan purchased the old Borloff estate in Castleton, Kentucky, she was unaware of its history and the dark secrets it held. Castleton residents believe the house is haunted by the ghosts of Borloff’s wife and children who all went missing sixty years before. Their bodies were never found. Townsfolk asserts that Josef Borloff brutally murdered his family then disposed of their bodies. They swear Borloff was the devil incarnate and that his spirit still remains inside Borloff Manor. A non-believer in the supernatural, Joan dismisses the rumors and warnings from the locals, a decision she will immediately come to regret. Only hours after moving in, she perceives that something unpleasant and mystifying is going on inside her new home. Whatever is behind the cause of the bizarre events adversely affects her, her two children, and the family dog, Conroy. Personal items that mysteriously disappear, peculiar noises coming from...

The Punishment Room

Genres: General Fiction, Womens Fiction, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

At 18, Joey Sheffield left home, putting a history of sexual abuse behind her. Fifteen years later, she’s summoned home by her sister, Rosemary, to attend the funeral of the man responsible for the crimes committed against her – her father, MacArthur Sheffield. Not wanting to let her sisters down by not showing up, Joey puts her disdain for her parents and the home she grew up in aside and reluctantly returns to Sheffield Manor. Shortly after her arrival, she starts to notice odd occurrences. Voices coming from inside the walls, the stench of her father’s cologne, and the aroma of smoke from his favorite pipe tobacco. Things aren’t as they seem at Sheffield Manor. When Joey learns that no funeral arrangements have been made for her father, and that no citizens in the town of Cornish, Alabama are aware of his death, she realizes that she’s been lured home...

Hurricane

Genres: General Fiction, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

With a Category 5 hurricane barreling towards the southeast coast of Florida, Kayla Woodbridge is forced to cut her beach vacation with her children short and return home to prepare for the coming storm. Boone Chadwick, a new friend she met at the beach, isn't as concerned about the impending storm as Kayla is and refuses to heed her warnings to vacate the island. When the causeway bridge, the only road on and off the island, is destroyed after being struck by a barge, Boone gets stranded with eleven others from his hotel, their location in the direct path of Hurricane Phillipe’s landfall. Back at home in Nanette, Kayla is forced to face the storm alone with her children after her husband is arrested and charged with murder. The catastrophic hurricane also has another target in his sight - the protective dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee. Is the levee strong enough...