Sleepy little North Bend just woke up.The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn't happen in North Bend.As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it's Jade, herself.With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time be...

Darryl Sims, a long-forgotten murderer, has been locked up in a maximum security prison for the last twenty years. Only when the family farm is repossessed for back taxes and sold to a megastore does the full extent of his heinous crimes, and the crimes of his son, Max, finally surface. When the property is excavated, skeletal remains of women that have gone missing over the years are exposed.Max is now on the run with Jade Monroe closing in. Worthy adversary that he is, Max eludes...

A body, wrapped in plastic, is discovered in a ditch along a secluded country road. Detective Jade Monroe, and her partner, Jack Steele, arrive at the scene in minutes. Suspicious-looking evidence gives the impression that this young woman has been held captive.As days pass, more local women vanish without a trace. Jade and her team of detectives fear the worst.With precious time slipping away, Jade needs to pull out all stops to find this perpetrator, even if that means pu...

Nightmares of horrific murders has North Bend's local psychic, Kate Pierce, frantic with worry. The dreams are reoccurring and far worse than usual.Robert Lynch, a knife wielding lunatic, is about to be released from an Atlanta prison after being incarcerated for ten years. The connection between Kate and Robert is deeply personal and she remembers his threats. Kate fears he'll find her and take her life.With local law enforcement regarding Kate as nothing more than a carniv...

A taunting letter, claiming violence and death to the vile people of Washburn County puts Sergeant Jade Monroe and her staff of detectives on high-alert. The letter states they will see the author's work soon, but without forensic evidence, Jade has no way of knowing who wrote the letter or its validity.When the first victim is discovered, the carnage promised in the letter is realized, and as the body count escalates, so does the depravity of the murders.The media tags the p...

A wanted serial killer and his girlfriend are on a bloody killing spree across the United States. Agents Hank Rawlings and Beth Harper, along with the rest of their team, are on a nationwide manhunt to bring them to justice.Scene after scene and body after body only add to the media coverage. The wanted couple's faces are splashed across every television and cover the front pages of every newspaper, yet Hank's team remains a step behind—leaving them searching through the wreckage a...

When the dust settles in this Texas town, who will be left standing?It's been six weeks since Jack McBride's life went to hell: the resolution of his first case as chief sparked a county-wide drug war, his brother Eddie rode into town with a pocket full of cocaine and trouble on his mind, his estranged wife returned from her one-year sabbatical determined to win him back, and Ellie Martin ended their brief affair.To the Stillwater natives, the increase in l...

Dismembered bodies of women for hire litter the sides of the road in rural Tennessee. It has happened before, thirty years prior.Not knowing if the murders are that of a copycat or the original killer making a reappearance, Agent Hank Rawlings, along with Agent Beth Harper, is once again dispatched to the scene.With little help from the local authorities and limited resources at their disposal, Hank, Beth, and a local agent are tasked with pulling back the layers of deceit ...

August Snow, an ex-police detective who was fired from the Detroit PD, brought down the entire corrupt department and the mayor with a wrongful dismissal lawsuit. The son of an AfricanAmerican cop and a Mexican-American painter, August Snow ismost at home in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, where he grew up—the neighborhood he’s now returned to and hopes to revitalize with his settlement money of $12 million. The trouble is August has old enemies with scores to settle.Whe...

A dangerous cult disbanded years ago. Now they're back, and they want revenge.Alex Mercer spends his spare time operating a blog for missing children—a pastime inspired by his daughter's recent disappearance. Another relative goes missing. As he follows up on leads coming into his site, the police department is inundated with a rash of missing persons cases. The incidents seem unrelated until evidence ties the cases to a dilapidated apartment building known for its...

He's dedicated his life to saving missing persons, but will it be enough to save himself?Alex Mercer traded in his troubled past to protect the powerless. His blog for tracking down missing persons got his foot in the door at the police academy. But on his first day of training, a heroic act drops him into the hands of the captors he once hunted.Zoey planned to tell Alex how she felt the night he disappeared. As she and Alex's family discover the bloody signs of his fate, p...

Everyone has something to hide.Someone was willing to kill to protect their secret.On Christmas Eve, wealthy entrepreneur Claire Reeves is found brutally murdered in her own kitchen. The crime scene is intimate. Personal. But Detective Madison Knight quickly realizes it was carefully staged to deceive.As Madison investigates, Claire’s perfect life begins to fracture. Lies surface. Alliances shatter. And the list of ...