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Two detectives hunt a serial killer. The killer's hunting them. A lone trucker is ambushed, shot, and brutally stabbed. A tourist meets the same fate while out for a jog. Facing two crime scenes that could have come from a horror movie, Detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin search for the crazed serial killer. Five more attacks happen in a week, launching the entire city into a panic and causing the mayor to throw all of the city’s resources into stopping the rampage.

Geneticist Lanaya Kim must do what authorities haven’t - tie together the “accidental” deaths of several prominent scientists around the country to show they were actually murdered. Over the past two years, geneticists have died in what appear to be accidents, but Lanaya knows otherwise. If she tells her secrets to the authorities, she risks becoming a suspect or revealing herself to the killer and becoming an open target.

Books one to three of the amazing The Gamma Sequence series. Includes bonus material and behind-the-scenes info. Includes: The Gamma Sequence, Rogue Elements, and Terminal Sequence. All three thrilling novels in this set are complete and unabridged.

While preparing for his final round of life-saving treatments, detective Hank DeShear agrees to work with intelligence agent Jaden Trinn and a ruthless killer known as "The Greyhound" to shut down the remaining legs of Angelus Genetics’ illegal, death-plagued genetic engineering program. But the company Dr. Hauser founded plans to continue operating, buying political protection, and stopping any would-be attackers in the harshest, most permanent ways possible.

A young Florida woman goes missing. Everybody believes she is dead. They even have a body at the morgue that her mother identified as her. But the mother keeps getting letters from the daughter saying, "Don’t worry, and don’t look for me." They are in the deceased girl’s handwriting and there’s even a DNA match - but the body at the morgue is definitely her.

A mysterious package is delivered to Hamilton DeShear and Jaden Trinn—by a driver who then brutally commits suicide on their property. The box contains a message from Dr. Marcus Hauser, who everyone is certain is dead, stating: When the couple’s adopted young daughter was in Hauser’s custody, an explosive device was implanted in her head. It will detonate in 72 hours and kill her—unless DeShear comes to a secret location.

After destroying the last known remnants of Angelus Genetics and the evil Dr. Hauser's operations, Detective Hamilton DeShear escapes with Agent Jaden Trinn and their five-year-old ward Constantine to the Bahamas for a vacation - only to be framed for murder as Constantine is kidnapped and Trinn is nearly shot to death.

Several Tampa media personalities were known for their “hit pieces” about public figures. Now they’re known for being murdered, and anyone they trashed could be a suspect. Detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin, co-workers and secret lovers, are assigned to hunt for a deranged killer together....

Tampa detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin agree to join a newly-formed, multi-state task force and immediately find themselves navigating between the Georgia backwoods and the Atlanta social scene in pursuit of a serial firebomber.

A young woman disappears and is feared dead, potentially murdered by her abusive husband—a handsome, shady thug with a violent reputation. But as detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin look into the matter, they can’t find a body, and the husband has an iron-clad alibi. He was killed earlier the same day. Soon, it is obvious that no one connected to the case is telling the truth—not the mother who says the husband did it, not the sister who may have played a role in the crime, not the husband’s meticulous daily calendar…Maybe not even the dead woman herself.

A series of unexplainable tragedies surround a family and their young daughter as they seek to determine whether they are possessed, paranoid, or collectively going insane. Meanwhile, forgotten clues from the father's past may indicate forces are at work in ways more ominous than any of them could have imagined.

From the creators of the number one best-selling horror anthology The Box Under The Bed and its number one best-selling sequels Dark Visions, Nightmareland, and Spellbound comes Wings & Fire, a horror anthology with 23 stories from 14 authors. Tremble along as this brilliant collection of stories reveals witches and wizards, fools and kings, lovers and demons - and a thrill ride that any horror fan will enjoy! Compiled by USA Today best-selling author Dan Alatorre.

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A freak landslide at a remote mine site uncovers a strange machine to Barry's group of paleontology students. Wary of corrupt school officials, his team takes the machine home to study it in secret, reaching only one realistic - and unbelievable - conclusion: It was designed to bridge the time-space continuum. It's a time machine.

A young woman dies in a brutal nighttime attack, and all signs indicate her killer was a Florida panther–an endangered species that hasn’t killed a human in more than 70 years. When a second attack occurs in the same manner, the locals go into an uproar. News of the killer panther will ruin the tourist season and devastate their businesses.

The body of a sixth grade girl is found in the woods near the exclusive school she attended. It could be a suicide or a murder, but every lead turns out to be a dead end. Detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin are requested by the local sheriff to aid his scandal-plagued department's investigation.

After a major screw up, Detective Sergio Martin gets suspended. When a random sniper begins a shooting spree, Carly is assigned to lead the investigation, and Sergio must watch from the sidelines. To keep his mind off his problems, Sergio assists his new friend Tyree with security for a large outdoor mayoral debate. Meanwhile, rising star Carly can’t seem to catch a break with a killer that has the city on edge, and who may find the outdoor debate too tempting to resist.

After completing the biggest case of his career, private detective Hank DeShear returns home to start treatment for a disabling genetic condition that could end his life, but he learns his partner on the prior case has just been murdered. Was he wrong to conclude the secretive killer known as The Greyhound had declared a truce? Or, have disciples of The Greyhound surfaced to carry on with the murders?

Edited and compiled by Amazon bestselling author Dan Alatorre, this anthology of horror brings together the minds and pens of more than two dozen amazing authors. Dark Visions will take you into the realm of the eerie and macabre, with thrills and chills from: best-selling author Dan Alatorre (The Navigators), best-selling author Jenifer Ruff (Everett), best-selling author Allison Maruska (The Fourth Descendant), best-selling author J. A. Allen, award-winning author MD Walker, and many more.

The Jemwaju: Come sit by the campfire and listen as an old college friend tells a group of Scouts about a Mayan tomb he explored as a college student, and the possibly haunted remains of the vengeful warrior priest he discovered inside. Best Monday Ever: A hard-working businessman wins the award of a lifetime, but the announcement causes his wife to become a kidnap target of a strange group called the witch coven cult. Dark Questions: A young man finds himself strapped to a chair without any explanation. Then the torture begins....