Gravestone picks up where Solitary left off, right after New Year's Eve and all the events that happened. Chris Buckley is isolated, alone and terrified, wondering who he can trust or believe in. He is broken, tired, terrified.After the cliff hanger ending of Solitary, we are taken deeper into t...
A missionary family finds themselves having to make a decision to move to a secluded home for the winter. The wife is uneasy about the move but she is having issues with nightmares and sleep walking so she figures it will be best to agree to the move. Once they get to the home, things start happe...
The author of Gun Lake and The Second Thief is back with a riveting tale of how buried mistakes can resurface at any time. Adventure Company entrepreneur Jake Rivers gets a call from the parents of a woman who has disappeared and was last seen with Alec, Jake's best friend from college. The girl'...
Once again, Travis Thrasher takes readers on a thrilling ride, this time through the story of five escaped convicts and the people whose paths they cross. Weaving together twists of fate and fast-paced action, Gun Lake examines the consequences of sin and asks some compelling questions: Where do ...
Amy can tell the ages all vary, from students to retired folks. Some carry signs. As she passes by them, searching for Marlene and Brooke, she sees statements like We Love You, Grace and Standing with God. Across from them on the other side of the steps, like two teams on a soccer field, are men ...
He’s been to Harner’s Restaurant before, right next to the Fox River, serving good meals at cheap prices. But he’s not here for the food. He’s here to watch. Bob followed them this morning, completely unnoticed. He sits at a ...
There were no high fives or shared glances. Cory kept his distance. The camaraderie that had started to build had washed back out to sea. Emma was cautious, knowing he could be doing this for attention, sulking like he used to so she would come back...
The seconds move by like falling sledgehammers dropping against his soul. It’s too much to take in, yet his eyes and his ears are forced to see and hear all of it. Every awful little bit. Tommy stumbles over a body as he makes his way to the reception room. This looks like a battleground, like so...
You keep telling yourself that. You keep looking at the purse next to you that she left behind. But it’s been over half an hour. For a second, you consider leaving her purse here and going outside to see where she went. But you can’t leave it here. She needs to return, and you want to make sure y...
Barlow: I know that it will still be a couple of weeks before our monthly talk on the phone. I know I’ve said in the past that I don’t feel like we need it anymore, but now I’m having second thoughts. I’m wondering if we might be able to have a conversation every other week. I didn’t want to call...
This drug, this drive, this consuming longing always comes down to the same thing: control. Control over others, control over life, control over everything. So many are scared that life is completely out of control, so they fight it and they battle it and they usually lose the battle and they nee...
It curves upward through woods until it stops just below a hill of grass and an unremarkable, faded yellow onestory house. It looks like an orphan left in the woods, its three windows gazing dully at me. A set of stairs juts out beneath the front door."Here's the castle," Ray says in a way that I...
Living in the Moment One thing you can’t avoid no matter what high school you go to, whether it’s a huge suburban one or a smaller country one that happens to be haunted: Cheerleaders. I see a pack of them coming my way as I’m getting some books out of my locker. It reminds me that there’s a bi...