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I had the perfect life with my devoted stay-at-home husband, great career, and beautiful daughter. Until my husband's obsession with perfection took a dark turn and I learned more about my sister-in-law's suspicious suicide. I had only just gotten promoted to executive director at Morgan Stanley – one of the youngest ever – when I began to notice that something wasn't right in our house. The walls change shades overnight. Coffee cups appear in strange places, always full and cold. And my husband Mark's obsession with perfection grows more disturbing by the day. An encounter with his ...

Money is a fact of everyday life. We earn it, spend it and save it. We’re tempted to worship it and to trust it to provide for our needs. While much has been written about the power, danger, and stewardship of money, little has been written about what money actually is and whether or not money itself is moral. That information gap has been exploited to enrich a privileged few, enslave millions, and reap confusion and division throughout the world. How did this happen and what can we do about it?

A MURDERED HUSBAND. A DANGEROUS PAST. Stay-at-home mom Kate Martinez’s life is turned upside down when her husband is stabbed to death, leaving her with no means to support their toddlers. Detectives Cooper and White are put on the case, and their only lead is the unusual knife left at the crime scene. Naïve Kate insists neither she nor her husband have any enemies. But as the weeks pass, she learns that her husband wasn’t at all the man she’d thought he was. Not only did he once belong to a street gang, but he was one of the gang’s most vicious members. What other secrets did he ...

YOU CAN'T OUTRUN YOUR DEMONS WHEN THEY'RE LIVING INSIDE YOU. Sage Wellington has built her life around control. As an elite trainer at Manhattan's exclusive Verve Health Club, her carefully structured routine keeps the trauma of her childhood locked safely away—until Vanessa Reid walks through the door. Her new client is everything Sage respects: disciplined, knowledgeable, and eerily similar to herself. When Vanessa shares her story of narrowly escaping a predator who "collected perfect bodies," it triggers something dark in Sage's suppressed past. Then a fitness model is killed, and ...

Haunted by her brother's brutal murder, FBI Agent Sidney Stone races against time to unravel a chilling wave of child abductions that mirror her own traumatic past, pushing her to the brink of sanity as she confronts both ruthless criminals and her own demons. FBI Agent Sidney Stone has dedicated her life to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, determined to prevent others from suffering the same fate as her kid brother, Ben. They were abducted when she was 16 and he seven. He was killed while she was let go.

LOVING HUSBAND. LETHAL SECRET. Lexi Woods always believed she had the perfect marriage. But after enduring the unimaginable pain of losing her newborn son, she discovers something that shatters her already broken world: her husband Jason's diary. Through his own handwritten words, Lexi learns that the man who has been her rock through grief and depression has been leading a double life—carrying on an affair while portraying himself as the devoted husband. But the betrayal cuts deeper than infidelity. Three haunting words written in Jason's distinctive handwriting send her spiraling: "I ...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR CHILD IS A PSYCHOPATH? One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son Shane stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. He has behaved normally up until now. Have her efforts been in vain? She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she ...

Jennifer Hanson comes home and catches her 12-year-old son, Shane, stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. She has long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pictures of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally.

SHE CAME FOR REVENGE. SHE UNCOVERS A WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY. LAPD Detective Gabi Longoria returns home to an unspeakable crime—her husband has been brutally killed. Her captain refuses to let her join the murder investigation, so Gabi decides to do her own. Plus, she wants revenge. Convinced the reason for her husband’s death can be found at the New York health club where she met him, she goes undercover as a trainer there. As she seeks the truth, she befriends a handsome, mysterious man who claims an evil corporation killed her husband. What’s worse, he also claims they’ve developed ...

Shane Hanson was set up for a double homicide when he was only 13-years-old. His relative did it because she blames him for the death of her one true love. After spending five years in juvie, he’s released on parole and determined to reveal the truth about his relative. In the meantime, he meets a girl he develops feelings for. Shane's relative is a psychopath so good at manipulating people that she has managed to get everyone to believe Shane killed two people that she’s killed.

Stay-at-home mom Yvonne Landis enters her kitchen one day to meet a huge surprise: Seated on a chair is her son, Gabe. He went missing when he was ten years old, more than three years ago. It turns out he was abducted by pedophiles who made his existence a living hell. Yvonne is determined to heal Gabe. Her husband Ben is not completely on board with that idea, especially since Gabe stabbed him with a fork shortly after they were reunited. Then disturbing things happen to their younger son, 9-year-old Joseph, and Gabe may be behind those, too....

KARMA HAS NO DEADLINE Gabe Landis didn’t expect to bump into one of the men who molested him years ago when rescuing Yvonne, his missing fugitive mother. Yvonne reveals why the private investigator who helped him feels so familiar. The PI made a plea deal with the prosecutor at the trial, witnessing against the child-traffickers kidnapping Gabe and other children in exchange for immunity. Gabe cannot accept that this man is walking free after what he did to him and other children. He must kill the man in order to have peace again. Yvonne agrees the man deserves to die, but she worries the...

FBI Agent Sidney Stone's fragile peace is shattered when taunting messages about her brother's murder arrive just as a documentary exposes a child trafficking kingpin and his powerful accomplices. Racing against an adversary who knows her darkest secrets, Sidney must uncover who's orchestrating this psychological revenge before another child becomes a victim. FBI Agent Sidney Stone thought she had buried her past when she finally caught Victor Bradshaw, the powerful child trafficking kingpin who murdered her little brother decades ago. But when a mysterious photo of a red balloon arrives—...

When brilliant and dangerous Elijah Weiss escapes from a high-security psychiatric facility, FBI profiler Sidney Stone is called back from vacation to lead the manhunt. As she delves into the mind of a manipulative genius, Sidney uncovers a web of deceit that goes far beyond prison walls. With enhanced abilities and a mysterious agenda, Elijah is always one step ahead. Can Sidney outsmart him before he unleashes chaos on an unsuspecting world?

PASSION CAN BLIND YOU. LIES CAN KILL YOU. Sparks fly when struggling actress Nina Belsky meets lawyer Dylan Whitman. Their chemistry is so intense Nina even rethinks her staunch position on relationships being a waste of time. But there's something about Dylan that scares her--and she knows it has nothing to do with fear of getting close to a man, like her best friend thinks. It's something far worse. Preppy Dylan has had his heart broken and reluctantly ends up on a date with wild, complicated Nina. While her unabashed attitude unsettles him at first, he soon realizes that he really likes ...

FBI profiler Sidney Stone investigates gruesome murders involving vigilantes, suspecting her ex-partner Kane may be behind the killing spree. As more victims surface, the evidence suggests her former lover is orchestrating the elaborate death scenes plaguing the city... FBI profiler Sidney Stone returns from vacation to confront her darkest case: victims carved open, their organs harvested with clinical precision, their bodies arranged in grotesque tableaux across the city. Each crime scene is a twisted stage, each victim's final pose a cruel mockery of their past. As Sidney uncovers a five...

Yvonne Landis has escaped from a mental institution, where she was treated for psychosis. Accused of murder, she will stand trial once psychiatrists deem her fit enough to understand her charges. Only Yvonne knows that she didn't kill her husband; her son Gabe did. Because she was onto him, he tricked the authorities into believing that Mom killed Dad. Having been traumatized in his tweens, he suffers from extreme anger issues. In order to deal with them, he must kill on occasion.

Driven by a haunting past, FBI Agent Sidney Stone confronts her most chilling case yet: a string of brutal murders in the foster care system, marked by cryptic origami clues. As she peels back layers of deception surrounding a seemingly benevolent charity, she unearths a conspiracy so vast and twisted, it threatens to upend everything Sidney holds true. FBI Agent Sidney Stone is no stranger to darkness, but her latest case plunges her into an abyss deeper than she ever imagined. When a series of brutal murders rocks the foster care community, Sidney and her partner Alex Kane find themselves...

Shane Hanson is living a nightmare. Not only is his mother an escaped prisoner out to kill him, but he also suspects that his precocious half sister, four-year-old Neera, has inherited their mom's psychopathic tendencies. When Neera's father suddenly dies from a heart attack, Shane's even more convinced that Neera is a budding psychopath; after all, she triggered the deadly heart attack. The authorities reject the idea that Neera tried to hurt her father on purpose, but Shane sees increasing signs that something is wrong. Then Neera suddenly disappears.

Gabe was once abducted and severely abused. Having escaped a few years ago and gone through significant therapy, he is almost back to normal. Except, his mother Yvonne realizes he has some serious anger issues to deal with when he almost beats a fellow teen to death for messing with his new car. Yvonne keeps his issues from the rest of the family, which may prove to be a huge mistake when tensions between Gabe and his father Ben rise. Ben has problems of his own involving alcohol, resulting in him having loose lips. What if Ben accidentally reveals the family’s dark secret to Gabe?