1993. A trip to the cinema turns into a nightmare for Anna Young and her little sister Jessica, when two men throw thirteen-year-old Jessica into the back of a van and speed away.1997. Fifteen-year-old Grace Kirby kisses her mum goodbye and heads off to school. It's a day like any other, except that Grace will never return home.2012. Melinda (surname and age unknown) has been missing for weeks. The police would normally be ...

After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for free in a breathtakingly beautiful mansion on the Cornish Lizard Peninsula. There’s just one catch: the house is supposedly haunted. Mystery has always swirled around Fenton House. In 1920, the house’s original owner, reclusive industrialist Walter Lewarne, hanged himself from it...

How do you catch the uncatchable?There is a hotel. And in that hotel there is a room. And in that room, something terrible happened.Hugh was only ten at the time. Twenty–five years have passed, but he is still stuck in that moment. Every night when he closes his eyes, he sees the blood. So much blood. On the bed, the walls, the carpet.Now Hugh is returning to the hotel where his life changed forever. Something stole his childhood that stormy night, ...

'Last night, eight-year old Ethan Reed was abducted at gunpoint from his home by an armed intruder.'Four years ago, Detective Inspector Harlan Miller killed someone. Now - divorced, alone, consumed by guilt - the world outside his prison walls holds little for him. Until an eight-year-old boy is abducted. Ethan Reed. The son of the man he killed.Frustrated by a police search that finds nothing, Ethan's mother appeals to the man she has reason to hate most in the world. She ha...

Two years ago, the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, given a wide berth by everyone except ghost hunters and occult fanatics. Now something is trying to lure the Pipers back to Fenton House. But is that “something” a malevolent supernatural entity? Or is there a more earthly explanation? Whatever the truth, Adam and Ella Piper are about to discover that their family’s future is inextric...

What happens when the watcher becomes the watched? Jack has it all – a beautiful wife and daughter, a home, a career. Then his wife Rebecca plunges to her death from the Sussex coast cliffs. Was it an accident or did she jump? He moves to Manchester with his daughter, to start afresh… but things don’t go as planned. He didn’t think life could get any worse... Then, Jack sees a woman in a window who is the image of Rebecca. Attraction turns into obsession as he returns to the window night a...

After the death of his wife, Jack is starting to get his life back on track. But things are about to get complicated. A woman lies in a hospital bed, clinging to life after being shot in the head. She claims to remember nothing, not even her own name. Who is she? That is the question Jack must answer. All he has to go on is a mysterious facial tattoo. Damaged kindred spirits, Jack and the nameless woman quickly form a bond. But he can’t afford to fall for someone who might put his family a...

Would you break the law to see justice done?In Sheffield, a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man resorting to desperate measures.In Middlesbrough, a woman named Angel is heading south. She is a woman alone. A prostitute. Now a murderer. And she has only one thing on her mind: revenge. Two crimes, a hundred miles apart, but a terrible secret connects them.

February 14th, 1993: Sheffield United supporters remember it as the day their team won a famous victory against Manchester United. The date is lodged in Anna Young's brain for a different reason. That was the day her sister, Jessica, was abducted. Fast forward twenty years. The case has long since gone cold. But Anna made a promise to look after her little sister. And it's a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes...

Authors Randy Chandler, Ben Cheetham, Edward M. Erdelac, and David James Keaton unleash the carnage with four unique, hardcore zombie novellas.DEAD JUJU BY RANDY CHANDLER - He's the mystery man on the news. Where he shows up, the sh!t goes down. The dead are rising, the immigration issue has reached the boiling point, the living are screwed, and unspeakable acts are being performed upon all involved. In this tale of Zombies Gone Wild, yes the dead walk but just where the hell are t...

Sometimes, to survive, you have to give up part of yourself.At fourteen, Abigail has no answer to the question of who she really is. Her life has been consumed by caring for her damaged mother. When tragedy strikes, she is uprooted from her bleak city flat and sent to live at her estranged uncle's country estate.Silenus House is a maze of shadowed corridors and echoing rooms, filled with artifacts that hint at sinister histories. For the first time, Abigail has the chance t...

Deep in the forest stands a cottage. A witch once lived there, or so they say.Hazel and her daughter Lily move to Blackmoss Cottage to escape a recent tragedy. At first the house feels like the perfect place to rebuild their lives. But appearances can be deceptive. In the surrounding villages, old superstitions still thrive. People whisper of covens gathering beneath the moonlit trees, and hang sprigs of rowan in their windows to ward off the Witch of Blackmoss Cot...