This book selection was updated on January 07th, 2026.
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When a shocking discovery unearths an old secret, can Stella expose a killer? Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parents’ hidden corpse. Plunged into the depths of guilt and refusing to see her father as the number one suspect, Stella focuses on solving the gruesome crime. But hunting a murderer in the tight-knit sma...
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After a mysterious blackout shatters society, Samantha and her dog Dean journey through looted cities and treacherous wilds. Haunted by her parents’ deaths and unable to save a wounded survivor, she finds an unlikely ally in Gabriel. As danger closes in, a hidden bunker may be their last chance at hope. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Riley Masterson has spent eighteen months under suspicion of murder in Alabama before moving to her cousin’s home in South Carolina. But her new neighborhood is undergoing gentrification, with glitzy new homes rising beside crumbling mill houses and homeless people living in the shadows of mansions.
When a ghastly crime occurs, detectives are left to ponder: Are the deaths personal or the result of rich and poor living in such close proximity? And will Riley take the blame, as someone has...
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The Book of Power is an epic 40, 839-word supernatural thriller that leaves the reader questioning whether achieving one’s desires is worth the price. It’s the Monkey Paw meets Stephen King’s Needful Things.
Financial investment manager, Hope Bankston, has achieved her dreams of working for one of the most successful investment firms in the country. However, there’s one caveat that keeps her from sustaining her success: her lack of abilities to do the job. Her only beacon of light comes...
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Cassie cries for justice after the death of her brother and the majority of her clan at the hands of the human king. Coping with her grief, Cassie takes on the responsibilities of leading the remainder of the tree trolls. King Roark seeks the tree troll’s fortress for his own, but Cassie vows he will never have it. Accused of treason and murder, Cassie fights for survival. $7.99 on Kindle.
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No power. No rules.
The sirens die. The trains fall silent. Cell phones go dark.
In the stunned quiet of a powerless Manhattan, a group of prepper families know exactly what this means: go now, or don’t go at all. Years of planning have led to one shot at escape. But in this new world, there are no easy choices, and every delay raises the risk of failure. As the city collapses, alliances are tested and loyalties fracture. When survival is the only currency left, they must decide whether to pr...
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A Navy SEAL Bodyguard May Be The Only Man Who Can Save Her.
Doctor Lori Waters grieves over the death of her father. She lost her mother not long before. While struggling with the loss, she must face a broken engagement. Alone and emotionally shattered, Lori inherits a prominent pain clinic that appears to be the target of a criminal ring.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND HER FATHER’S DEATH.
Lori investigates to determine if he was murdered. Surrounded by danger, and with few allies, she cha...
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When reporter Branigan Powers is assigned to write about her town’s only unsolved murder, she finds an interesting angle: the area’s homeless population. Police always suspected that their failure to apprehend the wealthy widow’s killer was because the murderer was a transient who quickly fled the area.
She approaches Malachi Ezekiel Martin, a street-dwelling war veteran who is accustomed to being unseen and unheard. When it comes to solving a murder, the pair discover, such invisibility ...
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Featuring a brilliant hacker, a stolen fortune, angry thugs, crooked cops, a mysterious beauty, and a dead man communicating from beyond the grave, this riveting, darkly humorous thriller has won multiple best of the year awards. $0.99 on Kindle.
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“A dazzling festive mystery with a spellbinding atmosphere – impossible to put down.”
Snowed-in at an Alpine castle, a long cozy Christmas locked-room mystery unfolds. A sharp female sleuth follows foodie clues and art through candlelit halls. Perfect for fans of cozy Christmas mysteries. $2.99 on Kindle.
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A teen goes missing. Her sister comes back to a town that blames her. The deeper she digs, the darker the truth becomes. She must find her sister before it’s too late. $3.99 on Kindle.
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Twenty miles, a blizzard, and the chaos of an EMP stand between Nick Franklin and reuniting with his family. Nick has spent his life preparing for this very moment. Now that the time has arrived to enact his emergency plan, Nick must decide how much of his humanity he will sacrifice to save his family. $0.99 on Kindle.
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September 11th, 2001. What if you could see disaster before it struck – but no one believed you?
Forecast is a pulse-pounding speculative thriller that catapults you into the mind of Roland Bishop, a weatherman living in Jersey City in 2001, whose life becomes shattered by a freak lightning strike. Suddenly cursed—or gifted—with visions of impending violence, Roland Bishop is thrust into a race against time as he glimpses a catastrophic plot unfolding in the shadows of New York City a...
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“This book sucked me in from the very first chapter and kept me reading because I needed to know what happened next.” — Jasmine, Goodreads Reviewer
“Wow. This book had me hooked from the very first page.”— Ann, Goodreads Reviewer
My mother told me my father was dead. She lied. Everything changed the day Emily found a hidden photograph in her mother’s diary—her young mother standing beside a tattooed yakuza enforcer beneath Tokyo’s neon lights. One name scrawled...
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When intelligence analyst Ethan Briar is drawn into a covert mission on the windswept Isle of Skye, he enters a world where nothing is as it seems. An abandoned supercomputer, a defector’s warning, and the specter of a long-buried betrayal set the stage for a high-stakes investigation with global implications.
At Castlemartin Manor—a decaying stronghold for a once-cutting-edge surveillance program—Ethan is forced to navigate shifting loyalties, encrypted legacies, and the labyrinthine...
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The moment the grid dies, she realizes the EMP wasn’t the threat… it was the evil waiting for it.
Her family is trapped in a city losing its soul, and Caroline must fight through lawless streets to save them, then defend their ranch from the chaos spreading outward. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A sinister and twisted murder mystery. Set in steamy Charleston, South Carolina, the mysterious disappearance of a twin daughter to wealthy socialites has the town ablaze with rumor and conspiracy.
What began as a missing person’s case now has Detective Beau Crenshaw heading in a different direction when a body turns up at a swamp. The pattern of death is eerily similar to Mary’s, an unsolved murder from years earlier.
The collision of similarities too great to be a coincidence makes him su...
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In The Second Law, Lynn Dayton Thriller #3, TriCoast Energy executive Lynn Dayton is visiting the company’s San Francisco refinery when it comes under attack. Saddened by the fiery deaths of several workers, she traces the explosion to software malfunctions and contacts cybersecurity chief Kanak Singh to track it back to the source. What terrible plan lies behind all these crimes? Lynn races against time to uncover a complex plot that stretches from murder in Vienna to a natural gas terminal ...
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When an attack breaches a decommissioned Soviet nuclear facility, ICSS agent Robert Dart is sent to investigate. But what begins as a search for stolen uranium quickly spirals into a deadly game of deception, where nothing—and no one—can be trusted. ...
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The Book of Power is an epic 40, 839-word supernatural thriller that leaves the reader questioning whether achieving one’s desires is worth the price. It’s the Monkey Paw meets Stephen King’s Needful Things.
Financial investment manager, Hope Bankston, has achieved her dreams of working for one of the most successful investment firms in the country. However, there’s one caveat that keeps her from sustaining her success: her lack of abilities to do the job. Her only beacon of light comes...
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Knitting. It can be murder. When librarian-turned-sleuth Tilly March agrees to help organize Mapleoak’s charity Knit-a-Thon, she expects tangled skeins, not a tangled web of lies. But when a beloved knitting influencer collapses mid-row, Tilly finds herself unravelling more than yarn. With her fellow book club sleuths and Hobnob the mischievous cat, Tilly dives headfirst into the case. Each stitch brings her closer to a killer hiding in plain sight. Was it the ambitious yarn shop owner desper...
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Everyone at Thornton State Prison has a secret.
In the stark confines of Thornton State Prison, hope for rehabilitation thrives under the watchful eye of Warden Black. With uncanny discernment, he meticulously curates a system of rehabilitation that decides who can be salvaged from the wreckage of their choices and who will remain inside his prison. Warden Black is both revered and feared, earning the attention of the Department of Defense, which sends their elite for his training. But beneath ...
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When Chance is hired to investigate a valuable painting which is suspected of being a forgery, he discovers that the painting and his clients may not be what they seem. Meanwhile in Costa Rica, former Navy SEALs Damian and JR are arrested for the murder of a surfer that washed up on the beach near their surf shack. As they fight to survive inside a violent prison, Chance uncovers a black market of human exploitation, greed and blood money, all protected by a corrupt police force. Bringing back ...
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Lance Bear Wolf, a Crow Indian by birth and an US Army Special Forces leader, stops with his parents for a casual lunch during a family vacation in Mexico. They are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wolf and his father witness the death of an innocent server by the Sinaloa Cartel. He stops the killer but Sinaloa cartel leader Eliana Cortes orders her men to kill the Americans. Wolf’s father is killed, and his mother critically wounded. The cartel princess gets away, but not until he silen...
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A City is Haunted by a Killer Who Believes He’s Saving Souls. The Detective Desperate to Stop Him Can’t Let Go. Four years after vanishing, the Moralist returns—his twisted crusade to “cleanse” young women of their sins reignited with a twelfth victim. For Detective Walker Michaels, the case is personal: three years of failure have left scars. As he delves deeper, Michaels finds himself dangerously drawn to the latest victim and her grieving family, blurring the lines between duty...
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Recovering from a near-fatal car accident, Trinity Summers retreated to a quiet lake house, desperate for peace and healing. But when a mysterious FedEx envelope arrives at her doorstep, her fragile recovery begins to shatter.
What begins as a simple search for answers, Trinity makes a fatal discovery that threatens to expose some of the most powerful people in the country. Unsure who to trust, Trinity is faced with the impossible decision of how far she is willing to go to expose the truth abo...
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Theo Holmes, a private investigator and direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in to help the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both cities. Working with PAM, a beautiful AI robot, and Delaney Watson, Holmes and his team realize they are faced with contradictory DNA evidence and bizarre connections to Elvis Presley and the beautiful song that pays homage to his life—Black Velvet. This contemporary murder mystery is filled with u...
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Excelsior Academy produces perfect transcripts, perfect reputations, perfect citizens—or, at the very least, students who can fake perfection under pressure. But the cracks are there, right under the surface, waiting for the right moment to split open.
That moment arrives the day a group of friends finally snaps under the weight of a teacher’s cruelty. Their revenge prank feels clever, righteous even—until it detonates in their hands. From then on, nothing inside the group feels safe. Con...
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In the aftermath of an EMP that plunges the world into darkness, Susan will do anything to protect her younger brother, Ronnie. Battling through plane wreckage and chaos, their only hope lies in reaching a remote family cabin, but danger lurks at every turn. When they join forces with a former soldier on his own desperate search, the stakes rise as ruthless militias and a mysterious “safe haven” threaten everything. As trust fades and a dark truth comes to light, Susan must fight not just t...
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When an EMP wipes out the power grid, the world goes dark and law and order vanish overnight. With no food, no water, and no government response, Emily Fairfield must fight to protect her children. Her daughter is trapped in a crumbling city, her son caught in the chaos, and danger is closing in from all sides. Alongside a wounded paramedic and the daughter of a mob boss, Emily risks everything to reunite her family. In a world without rules, survival will come at a cost. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The lights vanish. The cities fall.
Alone on their ranch, a family must battle hunger, violence, and the enemy sweeping through the countryside. The lights died in seconds. Now the rules are gone. On an isolated ranch, one family faces starvation, raiders, and the end of everything they knew. $0.99 on Kindle.
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SILVER MEDAL WINNER in Christian Thriller category for 2020 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards!
FURY in the STORM: Where Christians Dare, Book One of The Leeward Set by D.I. Telbat, is a covert mission suspense that takes place in and around North Korea.
As a storm brews across the high seas, Protagonist Troy Forge—though still suffering from pain and loss after a work-related stabbing—sets sail in his customized catamaran on a dangerous smuggling mission to the closed communist country of...
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A psychic who doubts her own gifts. An old woman convinced she’s being haunted. And a truth darker than any fortune could predict…A down-on-her-luck boardwalk psychic finds her childhood visions returning—and herself in the middle of a dangerous scheme—when she takes on a troubled and mysterious elderly client. $2.99 on Kindle.
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When a down on his luck journalist is sent to cover an Elvis festival, he worries that his career is going down the gurgler. But after he witnesses an Elvis Impersonator gun down another, maybe he was wrong, and this is the opportunity of a lifetime. $0.99 on Kindle.
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After four members of MS-13 perished in a small home on a quiet city street, the authorities lied about the mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths — but two years later, someone exposes the truth. Can detectives Graff, O’Connor, and Eiselmann stop the organization from claiming lives in retaliation? $0.99 on Kindle.
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Conservation scientist Phoebe Jones receives an enigmatic invitation to a bunker. Skeptical but intrigued, Phoebe begins to investigate. “What do they know… that we don’t?” Her research for answers uncovers prophecies and predictions about the end of days.
The award-winning The Final Shelter is a dystopian thriller that culminates in a provocative story with a powerful mystery-thriller twist and the riveting journey of a strong female protagonist.
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A divorced witch. A talking house. A seaside town full of secrets.
Newly divorced, Sera Blackthorn swears off men, mortgages, and mayhem. But when an unexpected job offer lures her to a fog-draped coastal town, she discovers Havenwood Cove is anything but ordinary. The Victorian house she’s meant to restore can talk, her grandmother’s past is tangled with the town’s mysteries, and the locals include far too many magical beings who claim Sera’s destiny is tied to theirs.
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When someone close to Lilah is murdered in what is clearly an assassination, Lilah finds herself looking to Ghost, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. But is Ghost a friend or an enemy? Lilah’s about to find out. But Ghost isn’t the only one close to Lilah who may well be an enemy. Apparently, the line between friendship and murder, is bloody thin.Book nine in the Lilah Love series. Free on Kindle.
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It’s been a year since John Robie, notorious Riviera jewel thief, proved his innocence by catching a copycat burglar. And it’s been a year since John has seen Francie Stevens, the adventurous socialite who not only saw through his disguise, but helped him catch the copycat. Now Francie is returning to the Riviera for its first-ever Fashion Week as a model for a top French designer, and John plans on rekindling their romance. But there’s a problem. While helping a friend, John ...
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In 1948 Tulsa, prostitute murders, blackmailer murders, and a murky communist conspiracy embroil a cynical PI in noir plots and Cold War intrigues. Wyatt Scott navigates all sections of town, from the infamous May Rooms brothel to the Tulsa Club elite. His investigation intertwines with his ruined baseball career, his WWII code-breaking service in Alaska, and his obsession with a suspicious death there. $2.99 on Kindle.
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