From the author of The Good Life: He was always destructive—and now his sudden death will bring even more danger and chaos to those who knew him . . .When the body of social worker Dermot Carine is discovered in a hotel room, the ripples of suspicion start to spread in many directions.There's Trina, a psychology professor who has a habit of crashing weddings, picking up men, and drinking to a state of oblivion.There's a prominent surgeon an...

As a deadly epidemic sends the nation into quarantine, one family must face a killer in their home in this tense and timely mystery thriller.Seemingly out of nowhere, a vicious virus puts all of America on lockdown. In their opulent mansion, the wealthy Stone family is better off than most. But they're not without their problems. Mark, a former tech industry giant, is now an invalid close to death. His wife Brenna is unravelling more each day. And the children are t...

A woman struggles to navigate a new relationship until a sudden tragedy dredges up her troubled past in "this gripping psychological suspense" novel (Dea Poirier, bestselling author of Next Girl to Die).Morgan isn't sure about her new boyfriend, Justin. He seems great most of the time, but a recent argument left her feeling shaken. Morgan's neurologist—who she's been seeing ever since the hit and run accident she survived as a child—reminds her that she has...

"Brilliant, it had me on the edge of my seat and I didn't want to put it down!" —Goodreads reviewer, five starsA shocking crime during a Costa Rican vacation exposes the secrets of a wealthy, troubled couple in this gripping novel by the author of It Was Always You . . .Kate and Calvin are on the trip of their dreams in Costa Rica, hoping to heal their marriage after years of difficulty and loss. When they meet a young newlywed couple at their reso...

A delayed honeymoon at a remote cabin becomes a terrifying ordeal of paranoia, secrets, and survival in this psychological thriller.Mary and Jackson got married after a whirlwind romance. Then Jackson's work sent him halfway across the globe. Now they are finally reunited, spending their first anniversary at a luxury cabin in the Poconos. It should be a dream come true, but there are reports of an assailant in the area. And when Mary reveals a secret from her past, ...

A Flash of Red - A Psychological ThrillerWhat happens when you can’t tell the difference between desire, obsession, and reality? Thanks to her husband, Anna is about to find out.Psychology professor Anna Kline and her architect husband, Sean, are a young couple in a fractured marriage, each struggling with their own misperceptions of reality. Sean seeks solace from his perfect wife in the cold intimacy of love and sex offered online, while Anna copes by offering her own opp...

When the body of social worker Dermot Carine is discovered in a hotel room, the ripples of suspicion start to spread in many directions. There’s Trina, a psychology professor who has a habit of crashing weddings, picking up men, and drinking to a state of oblivion. There’s a prominent surgeon and his wife, who both have a motive, as well as an obsession with Trina. Then there’s Laura, who’d been Dermot’s client as a teenager and who had a relationship with Dermot that pushed the boundaries...

Emerging as the dark side of Romanticism, horror is one of literature’s oldest genres. Its history is so diverse it’s sometimes difficult to define. Are moody stories about ghosts and vampires related to gory tales of beasts and zombies? And what about the more realistic terrors of murderous rogues and diabolical doctors? The emotion of fear unifies the 14 stories in First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror. But fear is legion in its varieties. The authors skillfully navigate terror o...

‘Hegel in Fragments’ is a collection of writings in dialogue with the work of German philosopher, G. W. F. Hegel. In bite-sized pieces, Australian academic Stephen Curkpatrick applies Hegelian insights to themes such as contingency, truth, theology, identity, limit, and rhythms.This exploratory collection is informed by Hegel’s concept of spirit as relation and mediation, within which identity is both identity and difference. That is, anything is itself by reference to others—not in...

A huge twisting vine has suddenly sprung up at the edge of Gotham City, and Batman is on his way to investigate. As the Dark Knight climbs the towering plant into the viny penthouse at the top, he expects to find a certain green criminal waiting for him. But instead the super hero discovers people being held prisoner . . . and a surprise hulking foe! Can Batman sneak past the villain to make the rescues and then take down the vegetal monstrosity? In this twisted retelling, DC super heroes ...

A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories th...

Covering theory and practice, Reward Management is an ideal textbook for postgraduate HR students, particularly those taking the CIPD Advanced level module in Strategic Reward ManagementNow in its fifth edition, Reward Management covers everything postgraduate HR students need to know about the topic to excel in their studies and start their careers as people prof...