In Ashford, a small Indiana town where everyone knows everyone, Elizabeth Harper had everything: a husband, a son, a quiet and certain faith. In eighteen months, she loses all three.When an icy road takes her twelve-year-old son, and then her injured husband slips away too, Elizabeth is left alone in a house full of their absence. The woman who once prayed every morning finds herself screaming into an empty kitchen: if God is real, why is He silent? She buries her Bible in a drawer...

Seven American scientists push deep into one of the last untouched corners of the Peruvian Amazon to study a dying forest and document peoples who have never known the outside world. The first days are wonder itself: unknown species, crushing beauty, campfires beneath the canopy.Then their equipment moves on its own. Bare footprints—far too wide—ring the camp. A monkey is found gutted and arranged, like a message left behind.When the first of them vanishes, the team underst...

Winter 1984. On the Iron Range of Minnesota, the small mining town of Marrow is emptying out. The mine has closed, families load their lives into pickups under cover of night, and the company's countdown has begun: evacuate before December 31.But those who announce they're leaving die, one by one. Each death dressed up as an accident, each victim caught mid-flight. The sheriff files the reports away, the town keeps its silence, and an unspoken rule settles over Marrow: you can die ...

Japan, winter of 1571. In the Chichibu mountains, a small samurai garrison watches over a fortress the world has forgotten. Snow will soon cut them off from the valley.The first night, a crow settles on the futon of a young samurai. By morning he is dead. The door locked from within. A single crow, perfectly still, watches over the body. Then another. Then another.A terrible rule emerges: the thing that stalks the fortress takes only those who find themselves alone at night...

China, spring 1355. The Mongol Yuan dynasty is crumbling. On the Yangzi, Li Wen — a disgraced naval commander turned smuggler — learns that a sorcerer has slaughtered the monks of Wudang and taken his son Li Feng, fourteen years old. The ritual awaiting the boy will turn him into the living vessel of an emperor dead for eighty years. It will be completed at the next total eclipse — in seventy-two days.To stop it, Li Wen must gather three keys scattered across an empire in flames: t...

Maple Ridge Junction, Vermont. Autumn 1986. Thirteen children vanished in thirty-five years. None ever found.When eleven-year-old Daniel Harper disappears on his way home, Kevin Marsh — seventeen, the man of the house since his father died — knows the next disappearance could be his little brother Tommy's. With his friends Aaron and Scott, he starts digging through colonial archives. What they find has a name the Abenaki have spoken for centuries: Wendigo....

Ten strangers. Thirty days. One island that was never meant to be found.When a French reality show drops ten contestants on a remote island off Papua New Guinea, they think they're competing for fame and a cash prize. Cut off from the world, armed with nothing but their wits and a satellite phone that won't unlock for two weeks, they're ready to face hunger, exhaustion, and each other.But Wékaru keeps a secret the producers never put in the contract.Forty years ago,...

Blackwood, 1984. A dying mill town where everyone waves on Main Street and no one asks about the summer of '75.Then the killing starts.One by one, the town's teenagers turn up dead—posed, silent, staged with a cruelty the sheriff can't explain and won't discuss. When the police triumphantly arrest a local outcast, Blackwood exhales. The curfew lifts. Two nights later, another body proves them all wrong.Dana Whitlock, seventeen and hungry for a real story for the sch...

New York, Chinatown. Night of January 8, 2024: forty-two overdoses in a matter of hours. Detective Jack Malone of Manhattan's 5th Precinct and his new partner Ethan Rivera take the case in a city still asleep.What they uncover quickly surpasses the scope of a routine drug investigation: a transnational criminal network, calligraphed ideograms on the neighborhood's walls announcing death sentences, a mysterious White Dragon funding its operations through a front charity foundation, ...

Ray Kowalski, inspecteur de la brigade criminelle de Phoenix, pensait passer trois semaines tranquilles en rééducation après une opération du genou. Il avait tort.Le lendemain de son arrivée à Sunset Pines, la résidence senior la plus huppée de Scottsdale, Arizona, un résident est retrouvé mort. Arrêt cardiaque, selon les médecins. Meurtre, selon Ray — qui n'a ni mandat, ni juridiction, ni béquilles fonctionnelles.Pour résoudre l'affaire, il va devoir s'associer avec les tr...

In Harrow's Bend, a small Vermont town clinging to the frozen shore of Black Pine Lake, the end of every winter brings the Thaw Pool: the whole town bets on the exact moment the ice will break. But this year an unnaturally warm spring rushes everything forward—and the opening ice starts giving back a thirty-year-old secret the town chose to drown.Devon Marsh, twenty-three, a cold-water rescue volunteer, pulls the first body from the lake. Then the second. They all belong to the sam...

Europe's biggest theme park shuts down for one private gala. When an armed crew seals the exits mid-show, hundreds of guests become hostages. Only one man can stop them: Marco, an invisible maintenance worker trapped on the wrong side of the cordon—with his daughter caught inside. He can't fire a gun. He just knows every bolt in this park. Tonight, that will have to be enough.