From bestselling indie thriller writer Natalie Barelli comes a new deliciously dark novel about a woman who married the man of her dreams, only for him to become her worst nightmare.Jodie always dreamed of being a housewife. And after a whirlwind romance, she marries renowned psychologist Dr. Roy Davies and moves into his perfect Beverly Hills home. But the fairy tale fades fast. Roy is distant, his friends view her as a gold-digger, and the house still reveres his late wife, Deborah, whose presence still looms over everyone and everything. When Jodie learns Deborah became a recluse before death, she begins to suspect Roy was behind it. And the deeper she digs, the darker Roy's past appears―obsessive, controlling, unfaithful. Increasingly convinced he had something to do with Deborah's death, Jodie knows she should go to the police, but that would require revealing her own secret. A secret that could destroy her. But Jodie won't be silenced. Because the truth about Roy is worse than she imagined―and now, trapped in a house built on lies, she must find a way out before she becomes the next perfect wife to vanish.

1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and—delightfully— some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at The Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can’t resist the promise of a readymade, hodgepodge family. But as Sue’s behaviour and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry—for food—and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging, carries out her friend’s terrible dare. It's a decision that will haunt her for decades.Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentary-maker who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula’s whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without.From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.

From the USA Today bestselling author of American Rapture CJ Leede, comes Headlights, a twisted tale about the power in confronting the ghosts of your past when an FBI agent with an uncanny ability to detect danger must track a serial killer through the wilds of Colorado.Today is supposed to be the first day of the rest of Detective Daniel Stanfield's life. He's making moves—the kind that will take him far away from his lonely apartment and his lonesome past. But before he can finish packing, he's summoned to Denver, the city he fled from five years ago, with one chilling He's back.The killer that Daniel couldn't catch. The killer who took eight lives in one year. Who left carnage and destruction in his path and then, suddenly, stopped.The gruesome cycle has begun anew, and he's taking victims faster than before. The FBI are desperate to get Daniel back on the case, and he reluctantly agrees. As the investigation evolves, Daniel's world collides with Hannah's—a park ranger who has been swept into the chaos. Soon, they find themselves entangled in a web of suspicion as clues point back to his traumatic childhood and one fatal night in the Happy Inn.With the FBI closing in and a sinister supernatural presence lurking, Daniel must confront his ghosts and unravel the truth—before he becomes the next victim.Also by CJ American RaptureMaeve FlyAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.