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"The way Jonas built up the atmosphere of menace to an all-encompassing evil is frightening and shocking. The magnitude, the scale of badness, blew me away." —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond. Nothing escapes. Not even time... Something is wrong in the deep woods of Oregon. Horribly, unnaturally wrong. For decades, people have vanished without a trace—tourists, locals, even law enforcement. The few bodies recovered are unrecognizable: aged decades in days. The government sealed the area with barbed wire and silence. No answers. No access. But when four strangers miss their ...

The Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) For the past four years, Sarah Roberts has risked her life to save others—guided by cryptic messages from the dead. Each communication from the Other Side has helped her prevent tragedies and pull people back from the brink of death. But this time, it’s personal. Sarah receives a chilling message about the man who murdered her sister—and where to find him. The information is incomplete, clouded by uncertainty, and worse, it may point to the wrong man. Still, she can’t ignore the chance to finally get justice. Then she receives The Warning: Walk ...

Sarah is in a fight for her life with no one to trust. Her dark visions have brought her into the hands of a kidnapping ring who will do anything to find out how she knows so much about them. While the police hunt Sarah for the wrong reason, her parents think she is at a sleepover. Her life is in her own hands and whether she makes it out of this mess alive or not depends on how many people have to die.

*Warning: Extreme, graphic violence. The Kill - Book One The son of the most ruthless mafia boss in eastern Canada is killed, and the father wants revenge. Darwin Kostas is a law-abiding Canadian, a writer with a new bride and a long list of phobias. His fear of the dark keeps him inside after the sun goes down. He also has an irrational fear of sharp and pointed objects. His fear manifests itself as an out-of-control rage when confronted with a knife or a needle. He's also the man who accidentally killed the heir to the Fuccini syndicate. When the newlyweds honeymoon in Rome, a mafia hit ...

The Crypt (Sarah Roberts Book Three) While searching the streets of Budapest for a dangerous weapon, Sarah Roberts notices a man in a fedora tracking her every move. Before she can confront him, she's arrested for a minor altercation and detained by Hungarian authorities. Upon release, she’s ordered to leave the country. But the man in the fedora isn’t done. He shows up at her hotel with a message: he works for a covert psychic research agency in the United States—and Sarah now belongs to them. When she refuses to cooperate, he informs her it’s not a request. It’s an order. Then ...

Aaron (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Nine) One choice. One missed call. One nightmare. When Aaron misses an important call to help Sarah, she ends up in the hands of a violent, secretive commune. Injured and alone, her only chance of escape was Aaron—until he didn’t show. Now, the search is on to find Sarah. Alex warns Aaron to stay away, but guilt won’t let him. Consumed by guilt and desperate to make things right, he launches his own reckless mission—one that will pit him against the people who hurt Sarah, the man who wants him gone, and the worst parts of himself. The clock is ...

Payback (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty-Eight) Sarah Roberts has disappeared without a trace. When Aaron and Darwin attempt to find her, they also learn that Alex is gone. Days later, Aaron watches live coverage of a break-in involving a woman who appears to be Sarah. The news coverage continues with footage of Sarah kidnapping an autistic man from a special needs center at gunpoint. Then, witnesses place Sarah at the scene of multiple murders. Authorities are now appealing for Sarah Roberts to turn herself in. As the hunt for Sarah escalates, Darwin posits a theory that this is payback for ...

When Darius Shaw, a security guard working the night shift, finds two bodies in the local recreation center pool, he calls 911, but he’s not the only one reporting drowning victims. The operator has received multiple calls about dead people in the past thirty minutes. Within hours, more than a dozen bodies are found in pools, bathtubs, and the lake—all showing signs of violence, such as bite marks and bruises. Then Darius comes across a journal belonging to one of the victims, which contains startling information about a cold case from ten years ago. As he tries to investigate on his ...

The Ultimatum (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty-Five) When the daughter of a powerful crime boss goes missing, the boss orders a series of deadly interrogations. He calls upon Sarah Roberts with an ultimatum with no clear answers to what happened to his daughter. Either she finds his daughter, or there will be consequences involving her child. Faced with this, Sarah plans a retaliation like nothing she has ever done before. No one threatens her daughter without repercussions. But when those retaliation plans backfire, people close to her get hurt, making her rethink her strategy. Then, the FBI ...

The Antagonist (Sarah Roberts Book Ten) Vivian has sent Sarah to Kelowna, British Columbia, to antagonize a member of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When she arrives, Barry Ashford, the RCMP officer Sarah is supposed to irritate, has just saved a woman from a suicide attempt. To the media and the public, Barry Ashford is a hero. To Sarah, she knows he's a rogue cop. Since Vivian hasn't revealed exactly what Barry is up to, Sarah has little to go on. The message was simple: Antagonize RCMP Officer Barry Ashford until he confesses his crimes to her. However, Sarah's efforts to goad him ...

The Haunted (Sarah Roberts Book Twelve) Two decades ago, Sarah's sister Vivian was murdered. Her dead sister's consciousness is now merging into Sarah's mind at a new level, causing Sarah to relive Vivian's brutal death almost daily. Sarah moves into a cabin in northern California to be alone and to work things out. She visits a local psychologist to deal with what's happening and researches the name Cole Lincoln, her old babysitter. Lincoln was a police officer who lived next door years ago. He abused her and threatened her life if she ever told anyone. But he seems to have disappeared. ...

Marcus Johnson had a plan. Steal the money. Call the cops. Walk away clean. It was perfect—until it wasn't. When he steals from the wrong people, everything unravels—and the person who pays the price isn't him. Running for his life, Marcus slips through time and lands in a parking lot he recognizes. The night before. He can see himself through the window, about to make the choice that started everything. He has one chance to fix it. But time travel isn't a gift. It's a trap. And the more Marcus tries to correct his mistakes, the deeper he falls into something he never saw coming. Some ...

The Unknown (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty-Nine) Sarah Roberts has a problem she can’t overcome. Her sister gave her sketchy details about a woman in trouble. There are no descriptions, ages, or identifiers—just where the woman will be and at what time. On limited information, Sarah enters a roadside café north of New York City in search of that woman, hoping she’ll find her in time. Once inside, she finds several women sitting alone at different tables. Bikers are grouped around another table, two state troopers are watching everyone who enters, and a nervous waitress stands off to the ...

The Redeemed (Sarah Roberts Book Eleven) Four Catholic priests have been murdered in Los Angeles; each killed differently. Each priest's name is carved into a small crucifix found with the body. Someone with a deep-rooted hatred of Catholicism is targeting priests with a suspected history of deviant behavior. The lead detective, David Hirst, calls on his friend Parkman for help and asks if he could bring Sarah Roberts along. Since Sarah is on a quest to redeem herself with her colleague Parkman after she had let him down in the past, she agrees to go to L.A. and do whatever she can to aid ...

A Sarah Roberts Prequel Before Drake Bellamy met Sarah Roberts, he was just trying to get by. Drake doesn’t want to break the law, but he wants to save his mother’s life. Sent by his father to buy medical cannabis from an anonymous dealer, the deal quickly spirals out of control. The dealer disappears. A woman ends up dead. And Drake is trapped in a high-rise apartment—with the cops at the door. Framed for murder and forced to run, Drake is hunted by both the police and the real killers. As he digs into the truth, what he uncovers sends him twelve years into his past—to the night he...

The Hostage (Sarah Roberts Book Four) Meet Elmore Ackerman. He idolizes Sarah Roberts from afar and has done so for more than five years. He has studied her pictures, memorized her news clippings, and now waits in the dark for the day when he can make Sarah his hostage. A steel cage waits for her. Elmore has practiced what he will do to her using other victims in the past. Those victims are now discarded, buried on his property. He keeps mementos from his victims to savor their time together. They always give in to him, his whims, his desires - all his victims do. Elmore has a plan for ...

The Betrayal (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty) Sarah Roberts has been betrayed, but she has no idea who orchestrates events behind the scenes. When a bus heading to a maximum-security facility is destroyed, leaving all thirteen prisoners dead, evidence leads the police to Sarah as a person of interest in the sabotage. Later, during a gang shooting at a motel, Sarah is witnessed at the scene. Now, the authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt for Sarah. Even her sister’s messages aren’t making sense, which makes Sarah wonder what’s happening to her sister and, by extension, to her. She ...

The Delivery (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty-Three) Shortly after a series of macabre deliveries arrive for Sarah and Aaron, the authorities show up to make arrests. Evidence is found in Sarah’s possession—literally blood on her hands and clothing. A body in a hotel room is connected to her, and an arrest warrant is issued. The police raid Aaron’s dojo, and additional body parts are discovered. Alex and Parkman escape with Sarah. They’re the only ones left with their freedom, the only ones in the unique position to find out who set them up and why. As every police officer in Canada and ...

Parkman (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Seven) Trigger warning: domestic abuse and violence. When Parkman takes on a private case to protect a woman from her possessive and narcissistic ex-boyfriend, the woman’s mother tells him, “That restraining order isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.” Parkman soon discovers this is no ordinary domestic abuse case—it’s something far more sinister. Meanwhile, Sarah responds to a message from her sister, placing her at the center of Parkman’s investigation. Within hours, their world collapses around them as the ruthless ex-boyfriend comes ...

The Chase (Sarah Roberts Book Nineteen) When Sarah Roberts arrives at the airport, she’s abducted by Toronto’s organized crime group, the ’Ndrangheta, before her boyfriend can get her to safety. Shackled in a floating prison, Sarah discovers why they took her and how it will affect the people she loves. The chase is on to find Sarah, but she’s about to be released in exchange for the one her captors want. Someone who saved Sarah’s life in the past—and who is willing to die for her. Bound, gagged, and out of options, Sarah is forced to act as bait to lure her friends from hiding....