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A collection of paranormal thrillers... SALEM'S SECRET Dani has her issues. Drugs. Alcohol. Even a jail stint. But she loves her father. When he is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, she doesn't know what to do. Following a rumor, she discovers a local witch in the mountains who can "fix" such things...for a price. The price is steep but Dani doesn't think it through. She never thinks things through but this time her decision has devastating consequences in this horror/thriller. BROKEN GLASS A fanatical photographer wants to recreate the scene of his mother's car accident when he hires a young drifter named Terry to model opposite his girlfriend Cindy. Things go awry, however, when Cindy begins to fall for Terry and persuades the young man to run away with her.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE STEAMIEST EROTICA ONE WILD NIGHT Lanie is a woman whose boyfriend is cheating on her...But her luck turns in unexpected ways when she inherits a fortune and a prized '65 Mustang. She takes the broken down vehicle to the local mechanic, one of the most mysterious men she's ever met and she soon finds her past merging with the present emotionally and sexually in a way she could have never expected. DON'T TELL ME YOUR NAME Jane and Brent meet each other through an on-line dating site...They both have high pressure jobs and want affairs for a needed release...They each use fake names and meet every Wednesday...But soon Jane realizes that Brent has found out her real identity...he has broken the rules of their arrangement and she breaks off the relationship. After short period of time apart, however, she realizes that she has real feelings for Brent and seeks out his real identity. THIEF OF HEARTS Lizzy is a young bank executive who is kidnapped on her way to closing the biggest deal of her career by a bank robber determined to make her his wife. The robber takes her on a romantic adventure that forever changes the way she perceives the importance of love in her life. COUPLES THERAPY A car crash in a rainstorm leaves two couples stranded in the middle of nowhere. The tension rises as each has a secret lust after the other's partner. Stuck for the night, the couples check into a motel that only has one room available...With one bed...There is a lot of awkward tension, heated discussion, intrigue, attraction and passion...All the ingredients for a partner swapping night that leaves some surprised, confused, and for one, the memory of a lifetime. SHE LIKED TO WATCH Elena is a young Mexican housekeeper who finds a tape of her rich employer's sexual trysts. She soon becomes obsessed with Mr. Gale's fantasy life, watching his tapes and eavesdropping on him...She longs for his interest but thinks he is out of her league...Until one night he asks her to stay late... SEXUAL CHESS Alana and Alexander are polar opposites in temperament as they advance in a chess tournament. Unlucky in love, Alexander sees the queen in Alana and she sees the King in him. But in the game of chess it takes two to play and one victor over the other. In the game of love, nobody need win or lose. Which game will they choose? PICTURE PERFECT Linda is being touted as the next Gia....A model too gorgeous for her own good...She soon becomes trapped in a love triangle with a renowned photographer haunted by the death of his first love. The photographer sees a lot of his deceased lover in Linda and tires to recreate her image in both his work...and in his bedroom. Will Linda give into his obsession?

Lisa and Toby Tokes had spent a sleepless night and were becoming increasingly frantic the more they did not hear from their daughter. It was unlike Reagan to go a day without reaching to her dad, and the quiet worry that had plagued them at night quickly turned into dread when they heard that Reagan hadn't made it to class the next morning. By the time Detective Forney's call came in, they had been expecting the worst. McKenzie, Reagan's younger sister, did not have to listen in to the call to know that she was never going to see her sister again. Her parents broke down during the call, and she knew her life was never going to be the same ever again.

Michele Yvette Avila, known as Missy to her friends and family, was born in Los Angeles California in 1968. She grew up 20 miles north of L.A. in Arleta with her mother Irene and three brothers; Ernie, Mark, and Chris. She was the focus of two books, a movie starring Patty Duke as her mother, and several TV shows. However, it was not her life that was remarkable but rather her death. At the tender age of 17, just as her life was beginning, she was murdered.

Rancher Elijah receives a prize on his doorstep...A mail order bride courtesy of the mystery matchmaker in town. Unmoved, Elijah takes the woman's arrival in stride, realizing that a wife may be just what he needs. But Shelby has arrived out of convenience. She is on the run from her dark past. Can Shelby and Elijah make their marriage work in the new frontier?

An anthology of Amish romances where young women are challenged with obstacles in finding their lifelong love...In "Losing Joshua", Rebekkah is a young Amish woman who starts work for Sarah Miller, but soon develops an attraction for her son Joshua. The two soon become an item and a romance blossoms. But Joshua has a secret, having one foot in the Englisch world and one in the Amish. During a trip to the Englisch world, Joshua goes missing and Rebekkah is distraught. She journeys to the outside world but in trying to find Joshua will she lose herself?

Lance and Wayne are two engineering students from California that need a break. They decide to spend the last summer before their college senior year exploring the Florida Everglades, hoping to score with some Southern girls. They hit the rural bar scene in a small town and marvel at their luck in finding two hot girls who want to meet their every whim...but things get hairy when people around the town begin disappearing and they find out that werewolves aren't just something they see in horror flicks...

Jana has just moved in with her grandmother in a retirement community in order to help her out. She begins to notice that there is a ghoulish old man who comes to the community in a black hearse. Jana begins to realize that the man is the Grim Reaper come to life and she tries desperately to fight him off when he comes for her grandmother.

Harry had heard of young women back in the city who would have large weddings with all their friends and family, who would come to see them in their dresses and wish them well, and for a moment he wondered if Katie was expecting something like that. He hoped not, because they wouldn't even have the decent sized gathering of friends most people out west managed to find for their unions. No matter, if she did have a problem with the two mandatory witnesses provided by the justice of the peace, she could try her luck at dragging a few people from the town to join them. Harry almost laughed at the thought. That would be an amusing sight to see. He kept his mirth to himself and his eyes on the road. His new life was about to begin and he hoped he wasn't making a mistake.

There is a man in the rural town of Jonesburg, burned from head to toe. He is seldom seen among the residents but when two of the local pastors are murdered back to back, the mysterious "burned man" becomes the primary suspect. Pastor Evan Givens and his wife arrive into town, inheriting the church and home from the murdered preacher. While doing some rummaging around the church, Givens finds a box of letters which detail the strange goings on in the town from years ago; tales of demon possession and cult sacrifices. Can the new pastor figure out who the burning man is before he becomes his next victim?

Katherine has been a widow for several years now but she has been nothing but a rock of support in the Amish community. Her children are young adults now and she begins entertaining ideas of starting a business with an Englisch friend but she feels the pull to help in the local bakery when the baker's wife passes away...The two begin working alongside each other and an attraction builds. Their affection and respect for each other slowly builds into love. But can they put aside the feelings that that they are betraying their dead spouses...and open themselves to the prospect of once again experiencing the loss of someone they hold so dear?

A look back at some of the mysterious deaths that took place within the movie industry: Bob Crane, Carl "Alfalfa" Spitzer, Adrienne Shelly, Dominique Dunne and more.

Four drunken teenagers out for a joyride crash into a metal pole. The Grim Reaper comes to collect their bodies...but he falls in love with one of the girls inside...and brings her back to life. But does she even want to live again?

Nikki and Luke Wilds had it all. The perfect marriage. A child everyone loved named Kenny. Susie his sister and of course, the family dog.Everything changed when Susie disappeared one day after school only to have her body discovered a week later in a cold dumpster in the back alley of a New York back alley. Tension entered into the perfection. Rattled the foundations of what the two thought was an impenetrable marriage. However, one thing remained constant - their love for their son, Kenny. They vowed they would never quite if only for him.

Iris becomes a mail order bride if only to escape the clutches of a rich ugly man and the town that is pressuring her to get married. She travels across the country and has agreed to drop off a letter to a farmer who's own mail order bride has decided not to go through with their arrangement. Bored, she decides to read some of the correspondence between the two and becomes fascinated with the cowboy who is writing Eleanor, her fellow mail order bride. When she arrives on the prairie, she hands off the letters to the handsome cowboy and decides maybe he's the one for her. What will happen when Iris' husband-to-be comes calling? Will she stay with the man whose letters she fell in love with or will she go through her arrangement?

Rudy Bladel was an oddity among serial killers in that he only targeted railroad employees. For an astonishing span of fifteen years, he terrorized railways with numerous random sniper murders. Disgruntled at being laid off from his job as a railroad worker, Bladel took out his frustration on the various people who worked in the Indiana rail yards for over a decade before he was finally caught. Why did it take so long to catch him?

In fact, for all the apparent thrills of the wedding, the year 2000 was one of enormous tragedy for Marsha Brantley. The newly wed lost both of her parents during those twelve months, both succumbing to cancer within a few weeks of each other. The sense of isolation that comes from losing one parent can impact on a person for years; to lose both so close together, in such painful circumstances, is hard to imagine. Further, Marsha had neither brothers nor sisters. Donnie apart, she had no-one with whom to share her grief. A spouse or partner can be a huge strength in times of bereavement; they can offer sympathy and support, a shoulder to lean on. But they are not from the same family. They do not have the stories to share, the joint experiences which can help siblings through such a crisis. It was, Marsha told friends at the time, the hardest point of her life.Yes, Marsha had cousins and aunts, extended family spread over the breadth and depth of the United States. But they were not close to her. Indeed, when she went missing in 2009 it was between six months and a year before most of these relations learned that she had disappeared...What happened to Marsha Brantley?

Daisy has been a widow for awhile now and decides to answer a mail order bride advertisement which brings her to Wyoming. Once there, she meets John...John is a former Sheriff in the area who now wants a quiet life on the ranch. Daisy has some expertise in farming and together they begin to turn the ranch around. Brought together by different wants, will Daisy and John find love or will their attempt to meet their individual needs be met with failure?

Female porn stars suddenly go missing; their bodies are found at various church steps around LA. A middle-aged detective, a sex-addict himself, must get into the murderer's distorted mind as he tries to see if the killer is motivated by a religious faith or perhaps personal reasons rooted in his/her private life? The detective goes inside the porn business and finds himself falling in love with a most unlikely woman only to find out that she's the serial killer's next target.

Patience Guth was known for living up to her name, known for being one of the kindest and most forgiving people in the entire town of over fifteen thousand people. Yet even she was capable of being tested. Unfortunately, this was one of those rare times...She and her husband are struggling with both their marriage and their bakery. When their store is burned in a fire, the community joins together to build the store back up from scratch as the couple themselves build their relationship back up from the ground up...But can they?

On one hot afternoon in July of 1982, Krista Harrison was picking up aluminum cans with one of her friends in Marshallville park. Marshallville park was about one hundred yards from Krista's childhood home. During this time the young boy that was with Krista saw her abduction. The boy ran to Krista's home in a panic, with tears running down his face as he tried to explain what he had just witnessed. When her friend was able to calm down enough he told her parents that a man with shoulder length hair, between the ages of 25 and 35 pulled up next to them at the park and had pulled Krista into his van. He forced Krista into his vehicle and drove away from the park immediately after the abduction. The child with Krista described the man's van as being brown or a dark red color, it had round windows on each side and near the rear of the vehicle. The child gave the police enough information to allow the police to get a sketch of the man that abducted Krista. As the news of the abduction spread, Harrison's community came together to form search parties. Hundreds of volunteers searched far and wide throughout the village of Marshalville, they initially believed that she would be found alive, in an unknown place.

Miley is in her last year of school at UCLA to become a veterinarian. Her best friend from high school has come to visit and couch surf for the weekend. It turns out that she has a friend who is an actor and invites them both along to a film shoot where they are making a Christian romance movie. Once there, Miley spends an afternoon with one of the lead actors who may just turn out to be what she has been looking for her whole life...her leading man.

A True Crime anthology taking a look back at some of the more infamous mass shootings in history. Brenda Spencer was an abused teenager who lived across the street from the elementary school where she began firing upon after she had a "bad Monday." Sylvia Seegrist was a certifiable nut job who drank carpet cleaning liquid for kicks...but when she had a gun in her hand it spelled doom for the patrons at a local shopping mall. Thomas Dillon was thought of as nothing more than a 'weird guy' at work but when a sniper began to terrorize the small town residents knew that there was more to the creepy Dillon then met the eye.

Janet's father told her that she should count her blessings that he had found her a suitable husband. He was a banker and was very well off. But Janet had other ideas. She would not let it happen. She didn't want to give up her calling as a nurse and be some banker's wife. Defying her father for the first time in her life, she came up with a plan. She would move out west as a mail-order-bride. Together with her young daughter, she had already found the perfect candidate: Dr. Race Barton. He needed a partner and she needed an excuse to keep working as a nurse. It was the perfect arrangement, if not for love than for practicality's sake. But would he feel the same way?

Set in the 1970s, a young rebellious woman named Lyla hitches her way home back to college in California. She's picked up numerous times with no incident until she meets what she first thinks is a harmless looking man. But as the miles go on and the roads get more isolated, she becomes more and more suspicious of her driver who introduces himself as "Bob Crane"...Knowing that isn't his real name, she becomes especially concerned when she hears warnings of a highway serial killer on a radio broadcast. A verbal game of cat and mouse then begins as the young woman finds herself figuring out how to escape the clutches of a man she believes will kill her...But is he the real killer? Or is there someone else on the road with them with evil intent?

Rachel was subject to daily abuse by her husband John. But the fear of being shunned after getting a divorce was more than she could take...so she endured...Her friend encourages her to leave...and one night she is beaten so severely that she has to be taken to the hospital...But when she arrives home, she finds her husband murdered and fingers are pointed around the Amish community. Could it be Samuel? The man who always pined for her. Or could it be her father who never liked her husband to begin with?

Rex Watson is the self-appointed protector of a trail that has been the target of bandits for years. He comes upon their latest victim, a beautiful young woman named Laura and her younger siblings who are robbed of everything they own. Rex takes them in until they can get back on their feet. But a storm comes and they are forced to take shelter with Rex a bit longer than expected...Laura can't help but feel attraction toward her rescuer and starts to dread the day they will be forced to leave...But does he feel the same way about her?

Leah misses her daughter Lara. Obsessed with the Englisch life, her daughter ran away from the community and broke away from the Amish faith. Leah has been struggling with her faith ever since, wondering what she did wrong and how Gott allowed this to happen. As she faces the whispers and rumors of her daughter's behavior in the community, she maintains her dignity as she struggles to move on without the daughter she had loved so much.

Detective Lars Mitchum received commendations for tracking down elusive "Candy Man"...a highly intelligent serial killer that moved across several cities. The investigation would take its toll on Mitchum, however, putting him on the receiving end of divorce papers and a severe substance abuse problem...Now years into retirement, Mitchum spends his days watching old police procedural re-runs on television. But when a little boy disappears in the city, authorities call him in as a consultant. The modus operandi is identical to the "Candy Man"...so much so that Mitchum starts to believe that he may have caught the wrong man all those years ago. Can the detective put his life together in time to stop the Candy Man from claiming more victims?

Maria Boyne, committed a crime so savage, so merciless, and so stupid that the newspapers and TV media fed like frenzied sharks on the titbits that emerged from the sordid event.A part of the horror of Boyne's crime came about because it contrasted so sharply with the mundanity of the suburban streets in which it took place. Barnehurst had, like much of that part of London, suffered at the hands of the Luftwaffe in the second world war. Vast areas were laid flat as planes targeted the nearby East End of London.