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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Bradley Crawford, and his wife, Kristy, are vacationing on an island off the west coast of Canada. But, their dreamy little escape quickly turns into a nightmare.

Libby Reynolds is having to reboot her entire life after a sudden divorce and relocation. Seth Carver has let work become his whole life, becoming himself the kind of anachronism he surrounds himself with in the antique store he owns. They'll fall together, but can their love withstand a visit from the past she's left behind? Left on Main is the first in the Map of Madison series.

Memorial Day had always been a special occasion for Dr. Sandford (Sandy) Beech and his precious family, filled with innocent pleasures like ice cream, clowns, and street performers in the warm Boston sunshine. Most heartwarming of all were the smiles of his lovely wife and two children as they joined together to celebrate one of the most sacred of American holidays. But one fateful Memorial Day Sandy learns first-hand how a blessed life can transform to horror in the blink of an eye. Forced to look at his life through a different lens, Sandy is surprised to find the lens itself changing focus after an unexpected encounter with a former classmate and nemesis, now a prominent politician edging closer and closer to the Oval Office. As Sandy begins to connect the dots in a mystery that puts his friends in grave danger and threatens his own life, his need for revenge and justice evolves into something he never could have imagined. Sandy's life becomes a chess game, careening perilously towards a chilling and insidious checkmate that might not actually be the end of the game.

The dark net is filled with monsters. It's frequented by thieves, drug dealers, child predators, and cold-blooded killers. But Mr. Sticks is the most fearsome of them all.Mr. Sticks uses the dark net to locate the lost and vulnerable; to lure young men and women into his web. And once he has a fly in his web, he doesn't let go.Nobody knows what happens to Mr. Sticks' victims, after the dance is done, but Lucia, an office administrator from Eaton, Colorado, is determined to find out. Before her sixteen-year-old sister becomes another notch on Mr. Sticks' belt.

Jack Howser, a retired widower, finds comfort in the companionship of his faithful Border collie as he tries to fill his lonely days. Life is peaceful, but boring, until Jack finally gives in to his insatiable sense of curiosity and begins to track down the history of his adopted pet. Jack's probing mind unleashes a cavalcade of events, a rollercoaster ride towards a mind-numbing revelation. Kerrie Joplin, a former New York City lawyer, has been forced to abandon her career and start fresh--a new life on the shores of a mountain lake in Montana. She has a past that she wants to forget, but one phone call from a stranger and her longing for a dog that was part of that past, draws her back in. The two new friends find, as they stumble from one clue to the next that they have more in common than just the love of a dog. Their thirst for solving the mystery that the dog has led them to, gradually becomes an addiction they can't turn away from. Even when their instincts tell them they are approaching the point of no return. Their harrowing journey of danger and betrayal lurches them headlong into the tangled web of a diabolical plot, and the realization that with unbridled power even the noblest of intentions can corrupt the human conscience and soul.

In the dark hours of November 9th, 1913, death screamed across the Great Lakes in the guise of a rare, white hurricane. The storm brutalized the region for the following week. In its wake it left cities crippled by devastating snowfalls, mysteries that remain unsolved and the corpses of 256 men and women from twelve of the largest ships

Reporter Taylor Kerrick meets her match chasing a story to Taiwan (Ivory Express). Her reluctant partnership with photojournalist Matt Armstrong foils a vicious smuggling ring-then puts a ring on her finger. But career pressures force a hold on the honeymoon and even when the couple finally connects at a friend's backcountry l

Jed struggles to survive a dystopian hellscape where the only connection he has left with humanity is soul-crushing work and bad breakups. Vodka-soaked nights bleed into sunless, gunmetal-grey coloured days. So when a snake comes out of the ceiling fan one night offering a chance to escape and become a god, taking the deal is a no-brainer.

Includes the text of The international agreement on the conservation of polar bears and their habitat (signed in Oslo, Norway, in 1973).

For most of Kelsey's life, her mother has told her stories of Rellainia - a dimension and world existing alongside our own. Mysteriously, every night her mother also disappears without explanation, but Kelsey doesn't know why...until a trip to the barely used basement sends her spiraling through time and space to Rellainia.

Detroit, Michigan, 1976: Eighteen-year-old Victor Carez used to live the high life with his father's multi-million dollar company. After its collapse, Victor and his parents are forced to move to Detroit. Victor had no friends, and the collapse of his father's company sent his father into a world of alcohol and abuse while his mother reverts to a daydreaming alcoholic state. Victor meets with the Chief of Police every Wednesday night to get the one nourishing meal he deserves. Their friendship is soon shattered by a young man named Danny Ponchello, whose father is rumoured to be a mafia boss. Danny saves Victor from constant bullying and befriends him. Victor says over and over that he doesn't want to be in the gang, but he eventually dives head first into the criminal underworld and struggles to makes his way back through a dark and disturbing two-year time span full of crime, hate and rage

Twenty authors from Canada, USA, England, South Africa, Australia and Brazil take you on a journey of terror and fright that will leave you looking over your shoulder, wondering what lies beyond the next turn and asking yourself what is hidden in the shadows. Sands Press collected the top twenty submissions from a short story horror contest and showcased them in "Death & Pestilence". These stories will have you sitting on the edge of your seat questioning your better judgement as to why you decided to read this book when you were alone.