Suspense/Thriller

Medical research? Genetic experiments? No one knows exactly what goes on inside the sprawling BioGenTech building on the edge of town. But after an enormous explosion at the facility, people in town start turning up dead...and in pieces. Something is loose in Hope Valley. Something big...and fast...and hungry. It has a lot of legs, a nasty disposition and a big appetite. This is one spider you can't step on.

His Last Mission Might Also Be Hers.... FBI agent Brant Law was on a mission to bring down associates of an international criminal. This was his last case and he was determined to succeed, so teaming up with Anita Caballo, an attractive agent with a desire for justice, made him leery. But when his new partner was shot at and her life nearly cut short, Brant found his quick reflexes matched his desperate need to protect her. As his trust in Anita grew, so did his passion for her intelligence and ... more info>>

He'd always been a hunter. But now federal agent Jackson Castle was both savior and prey, tracking a deadly killer who had targeted the woman he'd loved and lost. But first he had to convince her to open her heart to him all over again. Claire Munroe had put her stormy affair with Jackson behind her two years ago. Now he'd returned, bringing danger to her door, rocking her secure life. Ill-prepared to confront the man who'd stolen her heart, Claire had to decide which posed a greater threat--the... more info>>

In the mid-fifteenth century, a unique piece of jade is discovered in south-western China. Within days its discoverer is murdered. The jade is stolen, but the thieves themselves die at the hands of a cousin of the emperor Dai Zong, a powerful military leader, who sends the jade to Beijing where is it carved into a masterpiece depicting two identical dragons. Identical, that is, but for one remarkable feature. The sculpture is presented to the emperor by his kinsman but he spurns the gift and the... more info>>

During a routine assignment in Singapore, freelance intelligence operative, Jack Lawrence, stumbles upon a terrorist plot that could change the world. Suddenly, everyone wants him dead. Even his own government. What follows is a desperate pursuit through the jungles, gritty villages and teeming cities of Indonesia, as he struggles to stay alive. Along the way, he meets Annie Blake, a beautiful but abrasive British agent who is running from her own demons. As events force them to work togeth... more info>>

It's never pretty when a relationship comes to an end. But how far is too far in the struggle to find closure? When a young man finds the love of his life isn't the person he imagined, he takes it into his own hands to create his own peace. This chilling account, told first-hand through the eyes of the desperate spurned lover, examines the fine line between want and obsession, rationality and insanity.

Someone using poisoned darts is killing people in Los Angeles and taking their heads! Is it a mad man, or a rogue native of Ecuador's Jivaro tribe of headhunters? Or both?! Det. Henry Warner, with the help of a beautiful anthropologist from Ecuador tries to track down the blowgun killer. And when the killer flees to the deep forests of Arizona, can Apache policemen capture him before he kills them all?!

A Cry for a Hero - After playing dead to survive a terrifying encounter high in the Rocky Mountains, 29 year-old Jack Ramsey discovers he is a ghostly, disembodied spirit with fantastic abilities, able to leave and return to his physical body at will. Test-flighting his new powers, Jack stumbles upon a villainous plot to destroy Boston, the Cradle of Democracy. Jack answers the call by drawing on his love of comic books and transforming into the superhero "Ram." Joining forces with a female assa... more info>>

It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home. Cameras and questions don't usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty...and thorough. When the seemingly model mommy is linked to an amateur porn Web site with underage actresses and unwitting playe... more info>>

As dangerous and unpredictable as the July heat are the men chasing Judy. Can what you don't know kill you?

A Man With A Secret Identity And A Hidden Agenda--And A Woman Who Knew Too Much.... Brand Gallagher was on an undercover mission to bring down the Castellano crime syndicate and avenge his brother's death. Yet when he was ordered to kill Lily Raines--unlucky juror no. 7--the tough lawman knew he couldn't break his oath to serve and protect. But compromising his long-standing cover as a mob associate would surely get them both killed. Though they were little more than strangers, something about L... more info>>

Have you ever read Edgar Allen Poe or Stephen King on a "dark and stormy night," all alone and horrified at the vision of the world they manage to conjure up? The eerie scenarios of "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Pet Cemetery" give us hair-raising questions about what it would be like if things really were that macabre. Just A Job follows in their creepy footsteps. What would population control be like if it included not only pregnancy prevention, but also the removal later in life of those ... more info>>

The plan is simple: Save the world, erase your own existence. Thrown thirty-five years into the past, Derry and Taylor Brandon have the chance to alter the events that ended humanity. Easy, right? All they have to do is track down a father that hasn't conceived them yet and convince him of who they are and that he has a hand in destroying the world. Then they'll be able to fight the man who has tormented them in their own time--and now in the past--and confront and conquer their personal demo... more info>>

First there was darkness... A young woman wakes up to find herself in the dark. She does not know how she got there; she does not know why she is there. She feels for a light switch, thinking the light heals all pain. Then there was light. Death is only an instant. What light reveals to her is way past death itself. Realization sets in, and it is made clear that escape is out of the question. For a puzzling madman holds her captive, her freedom at the palm of his hand. Now there is only a decisi... more info>>

The terror begins with ruthless precision when the clock strikes noon. Gunfire rings out in major cities along the East Coast. Innocent Americans fall, each from a direct kill shot. After witnessing a hit in Baltimore, Mack Bolan dives into battle against an unknown but powerful enemy. Across the country, the coordinated strikes continue, but law enforcement is unable to stop the deadly sniper attacks.Bolan goes hard, shouldering the burden of dismantling a plot to turn the United States into a ... more info>>

Infected terrorists carry genetically engineered bio-warfare agents to unsuspecting populations. All humans die except those isolated in Cheyenne Mountain. Dr. Marcy Whites resurrects V5, a prehistoric bacterium capable of creating synthetic oil, but bio-terrorism quickly overshadows her successes. People die by the millions when a genetically-engineered disease is inadvertently released in Mecca. Carried by fanatical Ambulatory Infectious Agents, the disease spreads like wildfire with a 100% ki... more info>>

The Army plans to use a new breed of flies to protect combat soldiers. But Dr. John Pankow, their creator, is worried that his killer flies are uncontrollable. Will Mother Nature's most genetically-altered weapon be the ultimate armor, or the potential ravager of the entire world? A work of short horror from our Spectres line.

WHEN THE LINE BETWEEN CRIME AND JUSTICE BLURS.... Her trust in her protectors shattered, Taylor Jones strikes out on her own to find out why someone powerful enough to circumvent the Witness Security Program wants her dead. She was almost enjoying her quiet new life with a nice, normal guy courtesy of a new identity in WitSec. Then her next-door neighbor turned up dead, a stray bullet barely missed her, and the former FBI agent knew she was right in the crosshairs. She discovers a chilling conne... more info>>

After losing her unborn child, a woman struggles to piece her life back together, but unexpectedly finds herself trapped in an unsolved family curse spanning two generations.

A lecturer, haunted by the ghost of his unborn brother--a man whose out-of-body experiences show him a terrifying secret behind closed doors--a nascent nine-year-old serial killer awaits the visit of her friends--an innocent-seeming woodland begins to bare its secrets... Eleven cross-genre thrillers; eleven short stories that show the killers that lurk in the strangest of places, from prize-winning authors Gary Fry, Jonathan Maberry, Paul Meloy, Lee Thomas, World Fantasy Award-winner Bruce Holla... more info>>

American and Russian intelligence agencies have picked up chatter on a French cyberterrorist group that first came to prominence as masters of small-scale carnage before being driven underground. Newly reorganized, they are better funded, possess more firepower and have set their sights on bigger targets. Mack Bolan teams up with a beautiful Russian agent in a violent pursuit where every second counts. The trail leads from Paris to the U.S. in a breakneck race to stop a sophisticated cyberassau... more info>>

Mack Bolan is on a covert mission in Afghanistan when the body of an American soldier goes missing following an ambush. Bolan is determined to get the fallen soldier back on American soil, but the Taliban forces who stole the body have their own plans—and an honorable burial is not one of them. With more U.S. soldiers killed along the trail and the Taliban planning to execute a group of innocent women and children in an effort to disgrace the American troops, Bolan knows every second counts. ... more info>>

A shell-shocked city.... A new type of ammunition has Mack Bolan fighting a deadly war. But this time the battleground is New York City. Bolan has to uncover the source of the devastating new ammunition. The explosive, high-penetration bullets not only slice through armored vehicles with ease, but are the hottest item on the small-arms market. Not everyone wants these bullets destroyed. Having had a taste of their destructive power, those involved are willing to kill to keep their supply moving.... more info>>

War hero, personal trainer, lover, avenger, loving brother. Will the real Mark Tanner stand up? Mark Tanner, a wise-cracking, disillusioned U.S. veteran and casualty of the War on Terror in Afghanistan, whiles his time away in a sleazy trailer park surrounded by eccentric misfits. After losing a bet with his long time Army buddy, Bear, Mark begrudgingly agrees to be the personal trainer of the young tennis prodigy, Brooke Wentworth. When Brooke mysteriously disappears, apparently because of some... more info>>

Another tale of madness, murder, and passion from the newest queen of suspense. Marcus "Snake" Gallego lives in the fast lane. Play hard, ride fast, die young. But nothing seems to touch him, not until his faithless wife turns up dead, and a pretty little detective slams his head against a bar, cuffing his hands behind his back. LeAnne McVeigh has a murderer to catch and "Snake" is a prime suspect according to her fiancé, the County prosecutor. She fights her growing attraction to the biker, but... more info>>