*Trigger Warning* This book depicts suicide and mental illness.
Some souls are born to break the cycle. Others were never meant to live at all.
Seventeen-year-old Ellie Lucas never asked to inherit a legacy of death. But after her mother's mysterious suicide and a cryptic note left behind, Ellie's world spirals into something far darker than grief. Haunted by visions, pulled into weekly therapy sessions that she dreads, and shadowed by a boy from her past with secrets of his own.
In the heart of human suffering and doubt, there is a hidden voice calling for redemption. Hwang In-ho is a smoldering man, not living but existing, entangled in a web of dangerous games and delusions, searching for meaning where there seems to be none. Can light break through the darkness, or is he doomed to remain in this endless nightmare? Open your soul and understand that the game continues, and the price of victory is high... What if In-ho is not the torturer, but the tortured?
Alessandra Reinhardt, a highly-trained Italian field agent of Legio, arrives in Virtue City, the superhero capital of North America, in search of her missing brother, Markus.
Trained since birth in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and rapid combat assessment among other things, Sandra thinks she has what it takes to find a hardened rogue agent.
What she doesn't know is that Virtue City itself will test her resolve, her ideals, and what it means to be a hero...
Mu Qing indeed wandered for a long time after leaving Xie Lian and Feng Xin behind, mostly looking for more work to support his ailing mother. The jobs kept changing, but Mu Qing eventually settled in the Spring House, where, after protecting a girl from harm, he ascended for a second time as the War God, the Bringer of Spring, Xuanzhen.
Escaped. She had finally escaped that horrible place. Now, she may get a chance to breathe, a chance to heal. The world was peaceful, so peaceful unlike her own. Now she must adapt to such a large change, and try to embrace her current place.
Ginny is for rent. Not her apartment, not her car, but herself.
Her renter must be a woman, but otherwise Ginny is pretty much open to whatever her buyer may have in mind for fun and games...
Until the nightmares begin.
Rain is blackmailed by a woman who forces her into submission under threat of killing her husband and exposing a compromising photo. After moving to escape, the stalker resurfaces. Fleeing cross-country, Rain befriends a new doctor who becomes dangerously obsessed. When Rain’s husband is murdered, she suspects the madwoman again. Following a breakdown, Rain is hospitalized, where nurse Elizabeth cares for her—but can she keep Rain safe from the nightmare that never ends?
In scorching Arizona, fiery Teresa becomes obsessed with Sabrina, the alluring new security guard at her apartment complex. Though Sabrina is tempted, she’s devoted to her steady partner, Carly. But Teresa’s fixation spirals out of control, and Sabrina’s unease turns to terror when Carly is found dead, leaving Sabrina to wonder if love has turned lethal.
After a quake kills Jessie’s husband and destroys her home, Dr. Maruja Dugar takes her in, and love blooms. But Maruja’s affection turns obsessive, terrifying Jessie, who flees to Detroit. There, she rebuilds her life, works in a courthouse, and is drawn to Judge Nia Hollins. When Maruja’s threatening messages follow, Nia vows to protect Jessie from a woman driven by obsession, desire, and dangerous determination.
Sativa lands in an Arizona jail for a prank, serving a month in a hotel-like setup with constant officer presence. She falls for Officer Kya Jackson, who returns her feelings. After release, Sativa moves in with Kya on her remote 10-acre ranch. Life turns dark as Kya’s violent side emerges, trapping Sativa. She escapes to a neighbor’s house, meets tribal officer Raven, and together they flee to a hidden cabin in northern Arizona—though safety may be fleeting.
Hawaiian native Kyla Rembler is sent to a Northern California university to study campus life for a magazine, living among students, but not attending classes. Everything goes as planned until she accidentally kills a student. Growing close to Zoey, the dorm’s night guard, Kyla’s life unravels when she witnesses a crime. Now in Witness Protection, guarded by two officers, she forms a bond with Corrine—unaware someone is watching, with a secret as dangerous as her own.
When a gunman storms her dentist’s office, Melanie escapes and alerts Dr. Teresa Patton, who calls the police. The shooter, Cory Ennis, was after the assistant, Shannon, and flees before being caught. While under police protection, Melanie grows close to Teresa. After Ennis is jailed, strange online events make Melanie think he’s behind them—but the real stalker is far closer than she could ever imagine.
Julie and Jill meet and fall in love in sunny California, although it is with some reluctance. Jill, a nurse on the more serious side, isn’t exactly used to acrobatic Julie’s pranks and nuttiness, to say nothing of her psychic powers and eccentric nature.
Then one day, Julie’s neighbor, who lives across the hall from her, is killed—the same neighbor she’s been seen several times fighting with—and it isn’t long before Julie is arrested as a murder suspect!
With two kids to support and no help from their deadbeat father, Tiffany is incarcerated for writing bad checks during desperate moments in her life in less-than-lenient Texas.
Then she meets Detention Officer Vicki Noréz and life suddenly seems too good to be true. Until the officer shows her dark side.
In Nevada, Lorella Taylor’s niece secretly steals cough syrup, landing Lorella on probation under stern yet alluring officer Madison Cady. The two fall in love, but tragedy strikes when Madison dies in a car crash. Seeking solace, Lorella moves to Oregon to stay with her firefighter brother, Trevor. There, she meets Noelle Hutchinson, a beautiful forest ranger whose charm hides a dark and dangerous side that Lorella discovers too late.
Tesla, an American, meets Nane, a German, online. Their cyber friendship turns into passion when Tesla visits Munich. With no real ties at home, Tesla moves in with Nane, only to find herself trapped in a dangerous affair. Nane doesn’t want love—she wants control. As Nane’s dominance grows, Tesla fights to break free but is trapped in Germany with no money, no escape, and a U.S. warrant waiting if she dares return home.
Tia moves to Northern California from Oregon and soon finds love with Courtney. But when Courtney’s mother frames her for the murder of her new husband, everything changes. Now, Tia must rely on her lawyer, Lorelei Connors, to save her.
Joni and Nadirah met in a nightclub when Joni was twenty and Nadirah was twenty-nine. Joni was instantly attracted to Nadirah, but as she would soon learn following an argument, the feeling wasn’t mutual.
Twenty years later, they would meet again, and Joni would find that the love that wasn’t meant to be in the past would come to be this time around.
Only, there would be a huge price to pay for it.
What do a trapeze artist, a couple of detectives, and a dedicated physician have in common?
Plenty, as you’ll find in this story of love, lust and betrayal.
