A lone teenager. A shocking secret.During a raging snowstorm, a deputy rescues a teenager stumbling along the side of a highway. Battered and starving, the boy reveals only his name—Jaxon with an X.Ten years earlier, six-year-old Jaxon Lathan disappeared from a small North Carolina mountain town. The sheriff thought he had solved the crime, but the boy's return leads to a house of secrets, a mass grave, and the horror of missed opportunities. As the ...

Days after graduating high school, Freddie McDougal escapes his small North Carolina mountain hometown to pursue a dream of rock and roll stardom. Seventeen years later, his mother pleads for him to come home. His father has only days to live.Returning forces Freddie onto a path of self-discovery as he unravels the truth behind the tragic car crash that claimed the life of his popular and athletic brother, Dean. Everything he thought he knew about that awful night turns out to be f...

Every small town has its secrets. And this one could tear his world apart.Nathan Thomas feels grateful for his loving family and a steady job in a town where work is scarce. Still haunted by a deadly accident that severed his closest friendships, he hopes his bad luck is well behind him. But a fresh betrayal and a shocking revelation could take everything he loves away.With his marriage strained to the breaking point, Nathan's forced to confront his devasta...

The best lies you tell your friends.The worst lies you tell yourself.In country stores, old men gather over breakfast and coffee to swap tall tales. The fish are bigger, danger greater, and adventures wilder in the stories told at a Liars’ Table. No harm in stretching the truth when nothing exciting happens in their small town.Until someone steals Purvis Webb’s car. Life is hard enough without thieves. A wife in a nursing home. An e...

From the author of Jaxon with an X and Sour Notes, comes a vivid, atmospheric noir tale of a seedy underworld brought to life.Suburban executive Preston Westbrook decides his wife must die, but he can't do the deed himself. He asks high-end prostitute, Sable Dusk, if she knows of a hitman who can deliver him from a costly divorce and career-ending scandal.Bruiser is six-foot-four, 250 pounds of tattooed muscle wrapped in leather. With his scarred knuckles ...

Six-year-old Jaxon disappeared. He's found ten years later.The boy’s family races to the hospital to see him, but they are shocked at the sight. The bubbly youngster has been replaced by a scarred and emaciated teen. As they bridge the lost years and rebuild their bonds, they must wrestle with their own guilt and demons.Fearing other children are at risk, the sheriff follows the clues deep into the Great Smoky Mountains. He finds half-buried secrets, a twis...

'A well-crafted and brilliantly suspenseful novel that kept me guessing until the end.' Jo BartlettMia is telling me a story. It’s about a princess, who lives on a street just like ours. I’m distracted for a moment by her little hand softly slipping into mine. My daughter. My angel.But then she says something that snaps me back to reality. She says that there’s an old lady who’s a queen, and who’s kind. Except that she doesn’t treat the princess well. She...

An utterly heartwrenching tale of love and loss that will break your heart and put it back togeher again. From top ten bestseller, Jo Bartlett.A family in turmoil...Phoebe Spencer left home a long time ago, desperate to get away from her mother's emotional manipulation. She knows her life is better away from her family, but she can’t help feeling she’s simply running away from her problems…Then Phoebe hears that her younger sister Lucy has disappe...

The sensational, edge of your seat psychological thriller from bestselling author Gemma RogersAppearances can be deceiving...After a whirlwind romance and three years of marriage, I’d tried to be a good wife.But Tom, my husband, is always watching, controlling my every move. He chooses my clothes, my hairstyle, even instructing what and how much I’m allowed to eat – just ten measly mouthfuls.I’ve become isolated from those I love, forbidde...

Could you trust the sister you’ve never met before?When tragedy brings biological sisters Jessica Williams and Reeve Elliot together, the initial shock of learning of each other’s existence is quickly replaced by a commitment to be there for each other.For Reeve, it’s the support she needs at a time when her life is falling apart – she’s having blackouts and memory loss, exactly what her beloved late mother suffered from just a few years ...

Your sister once saved your life… Would you repay her with the child she’s always dreamed of?Liv and Toni were once inseparable. While their parents focused on Mandy, their little sister with special needs, the two older sisters leaned on each other for love, support and security.When they were in their teens, and Liv needed a lifesaving operation, Toni didn’t hesitate to do whatever it took to help her. Since then, their lives have gone in different directions. They live...

The BRAND NEW psychological thriller from the author of top 50 bestseller The Perfect ParentsWhen she hears the baby crying, she knows she has to do something to keep it safe. To protect it from its terrible parents...When Melissa Crawford snatches a crying baby from outside a house, she knows she's done the right thing. She can't bear to see the baby suffer one more day in that house, with those people. With her, baby Gabriel will be safe and loved....