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"For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran's death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran's open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed him to keep him quiet. Her own family harbors plenty...
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"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his...
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"Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into...
7) Lucky
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A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can't get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.
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"Mayree and Paula are a mother and daughter drifting apart, separated by grief and more, after the death of Mayree's husband. Mayree faces a future with no income, career, or social life. Even ties with her best friend have been severed. Paula, feeling abandoned by the father she loved, is left with only a bitter mother. When Paula reveals that she narrowly escaped a violent assault, Mayree's initial reaction is dismissal and disbelief. But as details...
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Irish Rose - Burke Logan came to Ireland looking for horses, not for Erin McKinnon. But unable to get her out of his mind, Burke offers her a bookkeeping position back in America. Erin jumps at the chance to leave her small town and get to know her handsome employer. Their initial attraction grows stronger, but Burke is keeping Erin at arm’s length―to protect her from a secret that could destroy their love. Skin Deep - Chantel O’Hurley...
10) Parasocial
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A fading genre-TV actor collides with an obsessed fan at a convention in the middle of a pandemic. Over the course of the insane, horrific night that follows, the actor will have to put on the greatest performance of his life simply to survive until dawn. Unless, of course, he's the real monster...
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Pip está atormentada por los dos casos de asesinato que resolvió, por las víctimas, por la atención que atrajo su podcast sobre crímenes y por los sobrevivientes, lo cual ya es bastante malo. Pero entonces, empieza a sentir como si alguien la estuviera mirando.
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough. But then,...