TJ and his mentally handicapped sister, Teresa, live a terrible life with their mother. But that will all change when their father is out of prison. As they count down the days to his release, a creepy man appears in their lives. Is the sanctuary outside of their mother's home still a safe place to be?

Janetta, estranged from the family, is forced to return to the location of her worst nightmares, caused by tragic events ten years earlier. To her great relief, Henrio, the original family outcast to whom she has bonded over the years, is also present. She finds additional comfort in a secure hideaway built by her husband allowing the seclusion she needs from his family.In her safe place, she peers through a hideaway window and experiences déjà vu seeing that intruders have broken ...

Aphra is entering high school and has no friends. Aphra loves books so tries to buy friends with the help of her mysterious father, Dr. Sutton, by becoming the benefactor for a lavish book club. Shortly after her father dies from a family genetic condition, Aphra discovers a plastic folder that opens a can of worms about her father that changes everything. The Book Club members increasingly ridicule Aphra as info about her father gets leaked to the papers. She plans a final Book Club meeti...

The silent shush is growing louder. The trap has closed. And the final war for human evolution begins now.A fragile, borrowed quiet has settled over Tom, TJ, Teresa and team, but the reprieves of the past week are officially over. For seven days, Tom has tried to wrap his mind around the absolute destruction left behind in the cavern. His daughter, Teresa, bears a faint, silvery line of a scar on her neck—a brutal reminder of how close they came to losing everythin...

Six locations. One fractured alliance. And a ticking clock counting down to a family's liquidation.The trap has finally sprung for Tom, TJ and Teresa, and the countdown toward the final hour has begun. Tom lay in his bedroom, wide awake, staring in horror at a map of Flatwoods, Kentucky, marked with six potential lairs belonging to his former best friend turned psychopathic killer, Jim Veil—the man now known only as Dagger. Consumed by a bone-deep exhaustion and a rising tide of gu...

The lives of TJ and Teresa, a.k.a. TNT, become even more endangered. Anxiously awaiting their father's early release from prison, little do they know the immediate risks on all their lives. Is there a connection with the secret doorway discovered in Teresa's bedroom? And why are TJ and Teresa magnets for disturbing events involving strangers? And it is no better at home. Their own mother and her boyfriend discuss a sinister scheme to deal with TNT and their father. Who can be trusted? Who ...

A psychotic serial killer is hunting his final victim. The deadline is June 6th. And the target is Tom's six-year-old daughter, Teresa.Freshly released from prison, Tom must race against time to save his child, but his hunt is compromised from the inside. His former best friend, Jim Veil, has been unmasked as the monster known as Dagger, and his own son, TJ, is lying to him.Wracked with guilt and a desperate need for revenge, TJ has armed himself with a stolen gun and gone ...

TJ and Teresa confront more strangers as the danger escalates during their father Tom's first day out of prison. Tom learns additional information from an unexpected source. Will the team figure out why TJ and Teresa are the target of so many strangers before it's too late?

Solve a mermaid's problem…Step off the edge of a roof…Dig up a grave at midnight…Take advice from a fortune cookie…Visit the last library…Meet a bridge troll…And more…In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the trace of lighting in the sky, each is unique and interesting.These wildly different flash stories delight, astonish, scare, and inspire. Enjoy 64 delightfully ecle...

The Outsider Series: The Complete Omnibus CollectionNine unforgettable novels. One extraordinary family saga.Welcome to The Outsider Series, where broken hearts find healing, families are tested by impossible choices, and love proves strong enough to overcome even the deepest scars.From abandoned children and second chances to family secrets, unexpected storms, and weddings that change everything, each novel follows...

As the village of Reabridge in Cheshire prepares for the first Harvest Festival following Waterloo, families are overjoyed to welcome back their loved ones from the war.But excitement quickly turns to mystery when mere weeks before the festival, an orphaned child turns up in the town—a toddler born near Toulouse to an English mother who left clues that tie her to Reabridge.With two prominent families feuding for generations and the central event of the Harvest Moon festival...

Shifters walk among us. In secret…The werebears of modern day Scotland populated the most secluded areas of the Highlands for centuries. Forced to conceal their true nature from humanity and especially the Sons of Domnall, a secret society sworn to kill all shifters, they firmly believe in one thing:Trust only your own kind.But when a single bear shifter claims a most unexpected mate–a human–his actions set an irreversible chain of events in motion....