Home Before Dark

Riley Sager

What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

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Axe to Grind (Gnarly Pines Duet #1)

M.T. Addams

They’re axe wielding, flannel-wearing psychopaths… and I can’t get enough of them. As the daughter of an infamous hitman—living in the shadows meant survival. But when trouble finds and chases me up into the mountains of Pennsylvania, into the arms of my dad’s best friend and his three roommates, I quickly learn what darkness truly is. These four men are meant to protect me, instead I’m drowning in their sins. Between playing Rhett and Santiago’s murderous games to accepting Wes’s possessive stake over my body, I know I’m in trouble. Yet, it’s the undeniable, insidious whisper of a forbidden desire constantly taunting me and Leader that confirms I’m willing to sink into an unholy level of depravity to sate the hunger simmering in my veins. Falling into sin is easy. Staying alive to enjoy it is another. With the trouble that brought me here not far behind, I have to make an impossible Return to the shadows to protect the men I’m falling for or stay and fight—knowing that if I fail, I lose everything. This is a dark why choose lumberjack romance. Axe to Grind is book one of the Gnarly Pines duet and must be read first in order to understand what happens in book two. As always, please check for TWs (found author's website) before diving into any of MT Addams's stories. TROPES Sexy Psycho Lumberjacks Dad’s Best Friend Psycho Golden Retriever Grumpy/Sunshine Soft Dom

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Axe to Grind (Gnarly Pines Duet #1)

M.T. Addams

They’re axe wielding, flannel-wearing psychopaths… and I can’t get enough of them. As the daughter of an infamous hitman—living in the shadows meant survival. But when trouble finds and chases me up into the mountains of Pennsylvania, into the arms of my dad’s best friend and his three roommates, I quickly learn what darkness truly is. These four men are meant to protect me, instead I’m drowning in their sins. Between playing Rhett and Santiago’s murderous games to accepting Wes’s possessive stake over my body, I know I’m in trouble. Yet, it’s the undeniable, insidious whisper of a forbidden desire constantly taunting me and Leader that confirms I’m willing to sink into an unholy level of depravity to sate the hunger simmering in my veins. Falling into sin is easy. Staying alive to enjoy it is another. With the trouble that brought me here not far behind, I have to make an impossible Return to the shadows to protect the men I’m falling for or stay and fight—knowing that if I fail, I lose everything. This is a dark why choose lumberjack romance. Axe to Grind is book one of the Gnarly Pines duet and must be read first in order to understand what happens in book two. As always, please check for TWs (found author's website) before diving into any of MT Addams's stories. TROPES Sexy Psycho Lumberjacks Dad’s Best Friend Psycho Golden Retriever Grumpy/Sunshine Soft Dom

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Underneath the Mask (Masked Men I Love Book 1)

Des Sweet

The neighborhood streets are coated in the eerie darkness dusk brings with it. Shadows lap at the edges of the dull gray sidewalks concealing our darkest desires. Every corner of my heart holding a secret, as my obsession with her grows until she’s become one of my sinful fantasies.I watch her every move; lurking in the shadows, and creeping through the alleys. My presence is an inescapable thrill that leaves her heart hammering full of fear and arousal. The delicate line between fiction and reality blurring as I orchestrate elaborate scenarios mirroring her favorite romance books. Each gift of adoration becomes an unwelcome surprise taunting her from where they rest waiting under the glow of a porch light.Who am I, and what do I want?Prepare for an answer that will leave you breathless, where the only certainty is that nothing is as it seems.

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Deadly Temptation (Deadliest Love #1)

Holly Bloom

What if the killer you’re hunting is the person you’re falling for? Everyone thinks Ivy Penrose is dead, but they couldn't be more wrong. After the Killers Club saved my life, they trained me to become a ruthless assassin. Now I’m ready to make the men who wronged me pay. I’m back in London to cross their names off my hit list, but a chance encounter with a sexy millionaire throws my revenge plans off course. Sebastian Montgomery is determined to break my no-dating rule. He has it all: a royal title, a mischievous smile, cute dimples, and a tongue that’s good at more than giving compliments, but we’d never work. He doesn’t know my true identity; we’re from different worlds. However, Seb is hiding more than inked muscles under his suit. He and his three hot friends—Freddie, Bram, and Callen—share a dark secret. A secret that will have fatal consequences when I learn the truth. Love has never been deadlier. AUTHOR NOTES: Deadly Temptation is a dark, slow build, why choose romance set in London's criminal underworld. This is book one of four in the Deadliest Love series. Expect serial killers, undercover assassins, a curvy FMC who'd rather spill blood over tears, and possessive men who fall hard and fast. Be warned though, these pages bleed with tension, twists, and scorching spice. Contains mature themes, so reader caution is advised.

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Pretty Little Accomplice

Gigi Meadows

He helped her hide a body. Now she's in his debt. Kira: I’ve spent my whole life raising my younger sister, keeping her fed and housed and alive. But now she’s done the unthinkable, and what I have to do goes beyond keeping a roof over our heads. But I’m determined to protect her, and I’ll carry her crimes as my own if it means keeping her out of prison. That’s why, when I find myself in the woods with a body to hide, I’m prepared to do whatever it takes, just like I always have. But what I don’t expect is for my heart to give out and for the drop dead gorgeous Jax Landon to show up. He was the rich kid in high school, popular and golden and headed to be a lawyer in his father’s footsteps. But now he carries a gun and is covered in tattoos. He claims to know how to cover up a murder, and as much as I don’t want his help, I’m stuck with him. Because my sister is dating his younger brother. Now Jax is calling me his pretty little accomplice, burning anything and everything that could incriminate me, and carrying me down mountains. He’s dangerous, infuriating, and annoyingly irresistible. And I don’t know if my heart can handle him. Jax: My father built an empire in the legal world and then locked me out, instead raising me to be one of his weapons. On paper, I’m a lawyer. In practice, a cleaner. I make witnesses go away so they can’t testify against his cases, cover up murders for his shady clients. It’s gruesome work, and I would love nothing more than to be in a courtroom instead. So when I return home to make sure my father doesn’t condemn my younger brother to the same fate, I’m pissed to find that my brother has already entangled himself in a murder. All to help a girl and her older sister. I should put a bullet in both of them. That’s what my father would want. No loose ends falling back on the family name.. But Kira Noland is a thorn in my ass. She’s too beautiful to kill, has too much tenacity to snuff out. The fight in her is admirable. Even as her heart falls apart, she just won’t quit. I have to have her even if she doesn’t want me, have to help her even if she doesn’t want it. But if our father finds out, she’s dead, and if the detective snooping around finds one shred of evidence, she’s incarcerated. Neither is acceptable, and if I have to, I’ll burn down everything to protect her. Pretty Little Accomplice is a spicy dark romance with a morally gray hero. It is intended for those 18+ and has trigger warnings. It has elements of forced proximity and small town corruption.

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Lost Valley (Extinction Survival #1)

Walt Browning

War has a way of following some people... John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the forty acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that. Now, they have to survive a worldwide pandemic. Taking refuge in a nearby Boy Scout camp, he leads a group of teens and their parents as they are forced to deal with infected creatures that are rapidly consuming the world. Will John and Shrek survive another war, or will this be the end of the line for the SEAL team?

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Tourist Season

Brynne Weaver

Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever. Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. But with tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary at any cost—especially for her aging mentor with a fading memory. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds. But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he’s saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling. The problem? Harper isn’t the monster he expected. And she won’t go down without a fight. When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she’ll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage—including their fragile love. Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade—and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger. Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include posing undercover as a newspaper reporter, translating wiretaps on the Japanese Consulate, and interrogating America's first captured POW of World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Takeo Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy operating as a junior diplomat with the consulate who is collecting vital information that goes straight to Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's gripping depiction of the world-changing cat and mouse games played between Japanese and US military intelligence agents (and a mercenary Nazi) in Hawaii before the outbreak of the second world war. Also caught in the upheaval are Honolulu's innocent residents - including Douglas Wada's father - who endure the war's anti-Japanese fervor and a cadre of intelligence professionals who must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same destructive mass internments as California. Ghosts of Honolulu depicts the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence and the need to define what is real and what only appears to be real.

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Lost Valley (Extinction Survival #1)

Walt Browning

War has a way of following some people... John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the forty acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that. Now, they have to survive a worldwide pandemic. Taking refuge in a nearby Boy Scout camp, he leads a group of teens and their parents as they are forced to deal with infected creatures that are rapidly consuming the world. Will John and Shrek survive another war, or will this be the end of the line for the SEAL team?

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Forbidden Fate (Omertà Brotherhood #1)

Jezebel Thorne

I was supposed to burn with my past. The devil has other plans. In one night, my life turns to ash. My past, my home, and every dream for the future—gone. Through a fluke of fate, I survive the flames. Only to get caught in the gunfire. One minute, I’m a music student with a scholarship and a violin I can’t afford to replace. The next, I’m at the top of every hitman’s to-do list. I have no idea why they want me dead, only that Rem Cosenza is the one who saves me. He’s the devil who steps out of the darkness. The nephew of Chicago’s most powerful capo and the only fixer trusted with the Family’s deadliest secrets. He offers me a choice: stay in the rubble and die, or leave with him and live. But salvation has a price. One wrapped in white silk and sealed with a vow. To survive the bounty on my head, I must marry a stranger. A monster. Rem is possessive, protective, and sinful—a man who will betray his own bloodline just to keep me. In a world built on loyalty and violence, our marriage is a death sentence. We’re forbidden. Hunted. And we’re both going to burn.

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger. Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include posing undercover as a newspaper reporter, translating wiretaps on the Japanese Consulate, and interrogating America's first captured POW of World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Takeo Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy operating as a junior diplomat with the consulate who is collecting vital information that goes straight to Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's gripping depiction of the world-changing cat and mouse games played between Japanese and US military intelligence agents (and a mercenary Nazi) in Hawaii before the outbreak of the second world war. Also caught in the upheaval are Honolulu's innocent residents - including Douglas Wada's father - who endure the war's anti-Japanese fervor and a cadre of intelligence professionals who must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same destructive mass internments as California. Ghosts of Honolulu depicts the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence and the need to define what is real and what only appears to be real.

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