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2) Baby Doll
You've been held captive in one room.
You've been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old.
Then one night you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked.
For the first time in eight years you're free. This...
The worst thing you can ever do is make an assumption about me, despite my job resting solely on making people think I'm someone I'm not.
I know that makes me crazy, narcissistic, and a little out of touch with the reality of how the world works.
I'll never argue that fact with anyone.
Maybe it was the hundred-degree Texas weather.
Maybe it was overstimulation from the crowds at the beach.
Maybe it was one of a million other
Despite having a previous connection, I've hated Lauren Vos since the day she stepped over my bleeding body and left me for dead.
We were never meant to be. She's an undercover FBI agent, and I'm a mercenary that goes where the highest bidder takes me.
After seeing each for the first time in years, she thinks we can just pick up where we left off, but the man she once knew died long ago.
What I didn't know is that the
The job I took was personal for my boss, but my abduction quickly made it personal for me.
There's no forgiveness for the things they made me do to her.
It would be easy to point fingers, but what about the part of me that liked it?
Something triggered that sickness and left me needy.
I made a choice to protect her when I could, but the need to hurt her again is always in the back of my mind.
The crazy thing is, I see that
I didn't swear vengeance on the Severino Family after Ellie's death. I was only a child after all.
I didn't swear vengeance when my father, a coward who wasn't man enough to seek justice for her, drank himself into a divorce.
Going after them would be a death sentence.
I chose to live my life in the shadows, seeking revenge for others.
That was until I ran into the very man that took Ellie's life.
I can still smell the smoke
Hooking up with the college freshman I was supposed to keep an eye on was easier than tracking her.
Kidnapping her after that first night was easier than following her around campus.
I'm massive, scarred, and tattooed. I don't exactly fit in with her crowd.
After the job was done, cutting her loose was the hard part.
Making it through the day without seeing her became impossible.
Some may call it stalking, but I call it vigilance.
It is his last case ever, and all he has to do is read the book. 74-year-old law judge George Edgerton has earned the respect of both prosecuting attorneys and defense attorneys alike, but his last case before retiring is truly daunting. Faced with the distraction of the loss of his son, Judge Edgerton has to determine whether the client is guilty or innocent of stalking, and he must do so by reading the man's book. The journey of a lifetime begins
...Award-winning novel
***** One of the best modern Czech novels *****
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The autobiographical hero of the novel embarks on a promising career in the not-so-moral world of door-to-door sales. Success seems easy and tempting, but halfway through becoming the perfect "scumbag" the young man finds he has no stomach for this world and begins to look for another life. He starts working as an autopsy photographer. The novel is
...“Magnificent, thoroughly unnerving . . . I dare you to look away.” — Justin Cronin
Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He’s out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down at his side....
12) Unreal Frontier
In this psychological thriller, enter the mind of a soldier driven by tragedy with the desire to do good as he enters a world beyond ours only to discover danger exists in places we could not fathom. One fatal day, a mission goes sideways and this soldier begins to live his own nightmares as he gets blown into another world. Coming out of this world, he believes it was nothing more than a dream, but as time goes on, he realizes this realm was much
...13) Shifting Shadow
He woke up to the sound of the clock, ticking.
He woke up every night at the same time. He wants to wake up from this horror.
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I wrote this story 8 years ago right before I found out I had testicular cancer. I was drinking green tea every day with loads of honey. Trying for the first time to write a number of words consistently every day, and back then that was really difficult.
I'm publishing it to start publishing things.
14) Bad Kids Club
The murder took the town by surprise, and it shook everyone to their core. There hadn't been such a crime in over 20 years in this isolated community. Only one group knew what it meant, but they were not the ones anyone would listen to. For the first time they had an opportunity to speak out. No one wanted to hear what the Bad Kids had to say. For the secrets within the community were deep and no one wanted to face themselves should others know.
...This trio of deeply entwined stories feature the same character, Rebecca. Each story highlights a different point in her life, and in each one Rebecca decides to die.
From the perspective of killer and victim, each story is intimately portrayed in emotional and horrific detail—focusing on the harrowing and tragic act of suicide.
'If you're like me and hoping to better understand what someone could be thinking about before
...Damien is in serious trouble, as he has been accused of murdering his birth father, Josh Roland. Harper must defend him, as he fights for his life.
Harper must defend Damien, who has been arrested for the murder of his birth father, Josh Roland. Harper knows that Damien didn't do it. He couldn't do it. Yet his past comes to haunt him, as Harper finds out things about Damien that she never knew.
The
...17) Antilove Drug
In this enthralling tale, readers are fully immersed in a compelling tale that intricately explores the pursuit of alleviating human suffering. The story unfolds with Margaret, a successful and accomplished middle-aged doctor, who finds herself on a transformative journey to confront long-suppressed emotions, particularly the complexities of love, which the fear of potential pain and heartbreak has hindered.
As Margaret unexpectedly
...The second installment in the Ghosts Never Die series takes place ten years before the journey the Wanderer embarked upon in the pages of 29 Palms: An American Odyssey for True Love.
In The Bridge Between Two Rivers, you will sink into the long night and meet the voice within the shadows that whisper; the long, dead, and dreaded "Man in the Hat." At the beginning upon the Wanderer's return to the Y-Bridge City, he seeks a conference
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Ren Martin thought she left her fear of water in the past, but a phone call about her late husband's family lake house brings it back to the surface. When she decides to take on the challenge of cleaning up the property, she makes some strange discoveries. While navigating memories that threaten to break the water's surface, she meets the attractive caretaker and learns of mysterious disappearances around the lake. As Ren's fear and trauma
...In sex.lies.murder.fame., Lolita Files delivers a sizzling satire set against the affluence and sensuality of the literary and music worlds that explores the outrageous lengths to which three devout fame-chasers will go to seek their fortune.
Fame is a b*#%$. And when boy meets b*#%$, nothing can keep the two of them apart. Penn Hamilton is young, brilliant, beautiful, and ready to take on the world and claim his rightful place in
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