What connects a pair of small-town murders that happened fifteen years apart? A breakneck new thriller from the author of Every Last Fear ('A standout novel plotted with surgical precision' - KARIN SLAUGHTER) It's New Year's Eve of 1999 when four teenagers working late are attacked at a Blockbuster video store in New Jersey. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later, four more teenagers are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who is forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who is convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller, who must delve into the secrets of both nights to uncover the truth about the...

Between ruling the night shift in the ER at the Rivers and raising her teenage daughter, Blaise Richeilieu has all the drama she needs in her life. When a dashing young attending appears on the scene and relentlessly pursues her, Blaise has plenty of reasons to say no—or at least she tells herself she does, despite Grady's nearly irresistible charm. Even if Blaise had the slightest desire to play Grady's game, the past she's kept hidden from everyone is a secret she intends to keep buried. What Blaise doesn't know is the barriers she constructs make Grady even more determined to find a way through them.

"The Night Shift is an engrossing and vibrant novel, and I loved watching my fair city shine in these pages. This is a great book for readers who love New York City after dark, and who see mysterious possibilities around every corner." — Emma Straub, New York Times Bestselling Author of All Adults HereOnly by traveling into the past can Jean discover a happy future...Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts—secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city. No one knows where they came from, but there are rules—you can only travel through them one way and only at night.When Jean's work friend Iggy introduces her to the shortcuts, it's to help shorten her commute between her night shifts bartending and her work at an upscale bakery. Jean is intrigued but has a hard...

A kidnapped baby. Press intrusion. A rogue police officer. DS Whitney Walker wants promotion but it’s hard when she’s trying to balance motherhood with a career. When a newborn baby is kidnapped from the local hospital she draws on her skills as a mother to help.Despite being ordered not to, when the leads are going nowhere, Walker enlists the help of a local journalist, who’s convinced that it’s the work of an international baby smuggling ring. Walker’s plan backfires and she fears they’re running out of time.

Summer in the Big Easy is hot. Inside Tulane Medical Center the temperature is on the rise. A doctor nursing a broken heart. A wounded warrior with no interest in love. A single father finding the girl who got away. A combat nurse trying to adjust to civilian life. Two lost souls looking for love. A former detective looking for answers and an FBI agent who finds more than he bargains for. Desire. Lust. Excess. New Orleans will never be the same. Six never before released stories that will leave you breathless. Dirty things happen in the dark.

" An employee is murdered at a state forest and the case goes cold. One year later, a former worker is going to try to solve it again, and it will expose the truth of what really happened that night."Eighteen-year old Collin Bansen gets a job at Arbur Winslow State Forest, being the first person to apply for a job there ever since the unsolved murder happened there a year before. It's obvious to all the other employees he just wants to figure out what went down a year ago, but no one knowswhy he's so bent on figuring it out, nor did they expect how capable he really was at solving it.EXCERPT.A dark figure was walking through the night in a forest. He seemed as if he was going in a designated or planned direction. Behind him was a large sign that had a large map on it with the words ARBUR WINSLOW STATE FOREST MAP written at the top. "All right, where is it?" the figure asked. Out of nowhere, a sharp knife was plunged into the figure's neck. Then there was silence. The figure fell to the ground, dead without question. The knife was removed. A large gate that led to an abandoned part of the woods opened and another figure ran in quickly. The sign that read ARBUR WINSLOW STATE FOREST MAP was seen covered in graffiti and littered with small holes.The dead figure continued to remain motionless on the dirt.

Hotel clerk Abby Medford has always enjoyed the quiet solitude of the night shift. The long, boring hours allow her time to study her law books. But when bad-boy-rocker Lucas Ford checks into the penthouse suite one night and demands Abby personally deliver his room service request, her formerly quiet nights are quickly filled with Lucas's erotic games. But as Abby soon learns, if she thinks she can indulge her innermost desires with Lucas without giving him her heart, she's dead wrong.