Dark Paradise: A Ryan Weller Thriller Book 5


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A serial killer... A stolen sailboat... And a missing woman Former U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician turned commercial diver Ryan Weller is working a salvage job off the Virgin Islands when he hears the familiar voice of Mango Hulsey on the radio, saying his sailboat has been stolen. Immediately, Ryan sets sail for Martinique to help his friend locate his boat. Billy Ron Sorenson runs a charter service and preys on unsuspecting women. When he's done with them, he sinks their bodies deep into the ocean. But this time he's made some crucial errors. He's stolen the wrong boat, left two dead bodies aboard, and taken a woman hostage. When a tip leads to the discovery of Mango's boat, he and Ryan find the two dead bodies and are immediately thrust into the hunt for a man the news media has labeled "The Sailboat Slasher" and the woman he's kidnapped. Sorenson's misdeeds catch up with him and he's captured by the police in Trinidad. Unfortunately, they're too late to rescue the girl from the men Billy Ron has sold her to. Haunted by the fate of the kidnapped woman, Ryan continues searching for her with the aid of the local police and his contacts at Dark Water Research. Can he find her before she disappears forever?




Darker Still


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The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Pride and Prejudice, with a dash of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York City, 1882. Seventeen-year-old Natalie Stewart's latest obsession is a painting of the handsome British Lord Denbury. Something in his striking blue eyes calls to her. As his incredibly life-like gaze seems to follow her, Natalie gets the uneasy feeling that details of the painting keep changing... Jonathan Denbury's soul is trapped in the gilded painting by dark magic while his possessed body commits unspeakable crimes in the city slums. He must lure Natalie into the painting, for only together can they reverse the curse and free his damaged soul.




Dark Fraud: A Ryan Weller Thriller Book 10


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An orchestrated attack … A shameless deception … A ghost from the past … When the cargo freighter Mount Olympia is destroyed by fire, the ship’s owner is quick to file an insurance claim against their lost asset. But when the investigator sent to inspect the damage turns up dead, the insurance company dispatches their best investigator, Emily Hunt. Sensing his fiancée might need protection, former Navy EOD tech turned commercial diver Ryan Weller accompanies her to Mexico to complete the inquiry. However, the closer they get to the truth, the larger the body count becomes, and once again Ryan finds himself in the crosshairs of a sinister enemy. Keen to learn how the fire started, Ryan sneaks aboard the stricken vessel. What he finds there goes far beyond insurance fraud …. Dark Fraud is the tenth book in the Ryan Weller Thriller Series. Dive into an ocean of crime with this fast-paced, action-adventure, and conspiracy thriller.




Dark Ship


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Ryan Weller has a grudge. The former Navy EOD tech wants to put an international arms dealer out of business. Jim Kilroy's mistake was selling guns to the Atzlan Cartel, who tried to start a war with the U.S. Ryan leverages his contacts at Homeland Security to gain information on Kilroy, but Kilroy has the blessing of the U.S. government, and Ryan's actions are unsanctioned. Instead of putting Kilroy out of business, Ryan finds himself partnering with the arms dealer to deliver a ship full of weapons to a Haitian warlord and to escape a two-million dollar bounty . Can Ryan navigate bounty hunters, rival warlords, and a hurricane to survive?




The Bay


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The waves are to die for. It's a paradise they'd kill to keep. 'One of my favourite reads of the year' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'If I could give this book more than five stars I would' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'The twists just kept coming!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A tense, twisty, addictive read' JO SPAIN 'Nail-bitingly tense . . . leaves you gasping for breath' SARAH PEARSE Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend, shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's only just met. But Mikki and her fiancé Jack are about to head away on a trip, so Kenna finds herself tagging along for the ride. Sorrow Bay is beautiful, wild and dangerous. A remote surfing spot with waves to die for, cut off from the rest of the world. Here Kenna meets the mysterious group of people who will do anything to keep their paradise a secret. Sky, Ryan, Clemente and Victor have come to ride the waves and disappear from life. How will they feel about Kenna turning up unannounced? As Kenna gets drawn into their world, she sees the extremes they are prepared to go to for the next thrill. And everyone seems to be hiding something. What has her best friend got involved in and how can she get her away? But one thing is rapidly becoming clear about The Bay: nobody ever leaves. There's a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it out. Everyone here has their secrets but we don't go looking for them. Because sometimes it's better not to know. 'A high octane, addictive summer read' LUCY CLARKE 'Gave me the same sinister-yet-wish-you-were-there vibes of The Beach' AMY MCCULLOCH 'A compulsive page-turner . . . had me until the very last page' SALLY THORNE Praise for Allie Reynolds: 'A knife-sharp locked room mystery' HARRIET TYCE 'An exciting, twisty page-turner that will keep you guessing all the way to the end' C. L. TAYLOR 'Sensational ' PETER JAMES 'A white-knuckle ride' ERIN KELLY 'Full of atmospheric twists and turns' SARAH PEARSE 'Thoroughly compelling and deliciously twisty... I flew through it' B. P. WALTER 'Fresh, thrilling and original with complex, believable characters' KAREN HAMILTON




Dark Path: A Ryan Weller Thriller Book 8


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A couple in need … A Marine seeking revenge … A conspiracy that could kill them all On hiatus from his commercial diving job at Dark Water Research, Ryan Weller takes a shot at happiness by sailing around the Caribbean with his beautiful girlfriend. But continually tormented by doubts about his future, the ex-Navy EOD tech soon wonders if he might be kidding himself about being able to settle down. When Ryan comes across a couple in distress aboard a sinking sailboat, he immediately answers the call to action and leaps beneath the waves to perform a daring rescue. Saving the lives of those on board, he uncovers a far-reaching money laundering network, and a disgruntled Marine determined to track down and eradicate its members. Never one to ignore those in need, Ryan calls on his buddies at DWR to assist him in following the money back to its source. As he strikes out across the Caribbean looking for answers, Ryan finds himself up against a deadly adversary who is prepared to do whatever it takes to cover their tracks and threatens the lives of all those who conspire against them. But no matter the danger, there’s nowhere Ryan Weller won’t go on the path to justice! Once again, Graver delivers an action-adventure thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. DARK PATH is the eighth exhilarating instalment in the thrilling Ryan Weller Thriller Series. Buy it today and dive into an ocean of crime!




Dark Prey


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While spending time in his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, Ryan Weller receives a call from an old friend, Chad Yeager. Out of his depth with a local loan shark, Chad's life has been turned upside-down by poor judgement and coercion. Unable to ignore his friend's plight when the shark's thugs put Chad in the hospital, Ryan dives in to help.To rescue Chad, Ryan goes head-to-head with the shark, dismantling his businesses as he goes. However, things quickly spiral out of his control. The police arrest Chad and kidnappers brazenly snatch his mother off the street, forcing Ryan to make an arduous choice.Accepting the only way to get her back is to do the shark's bidding, Ryan is forced to gamble with the lives of those he cares about the most, but how far is Ryan willing to go to snare his prey?




The Wicker King


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The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness. Jack once saved August's life...now can August save him? August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team—but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents’ unreliable behavior, August decides to help Jack the way he always has—on his own. He accepts the visions as reality, even when Jack leads them on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy. August and Jack alienate everyone around them as they struggle with their sanity, free falling into the surreal fantasy world that feels made for them. In the end, each one must choose his own truth. Written in vivid micro-fiction with a stream-of-consciousness feel and multimedia elements, K. Ancrum's The Wicker King touches on themes of mental health and explores a codependent relationship fraught with tension, madness and love. An Imprint Book “Ancrum delves into the blurry space between reality and madness. A haunting and provocative read that will keep teens riveted.” —School Library Journal “Teen fans of moody psychological horror will be entranced.” —Booklist “Give this to readers who like complex, experimental fictions about intense relationships that acquire mythic resonance.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books “An eerie piece of realistic fiction whose characters revel in intense emotions.” —Kirkus Reviews “An eerie and mesmerizing thriller that questions the space where reality and perception overlap, The Wicker King is a spine-tingling read that will have you riveted.” —Caleb Roerhrig, author of Last Seen Leaving and White Rabbit




The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer


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Mara Dyer doesn’t know if she is crazy or haunted—all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful and “strong, inventive tale” (Kirkus Reviews). Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong. After Mara survives the traumatizing accident at the old asylum, it makes sense that she has issues. She lost her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s sister, and as if that weren’t enough to cope with, her family moves to a new state in order to give her a fresh start. But that fresh start is quickly filled with hallucinations—or are they premonitions?—and then corpses, and the boundary between reality and nightmare is wavering. At school, there’s Noah, a devastatingly handsome charmer who seems determined to help Mara piece together what’s real, what’s imagined—and what’s very, very dangerous. This fast-paced psychological—or is it paranormal?—thriller will leave you breathless for its sequel, The Evolution of Mara Dyer.




Magicians Impossible


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Harry Potter meets James Bond in this story of a twenty-something slacker who discovers that he is descended from a line of magical spies and is thrust into the middle of a secret and epic battle. “Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection and mayhem. A must read for enthusiasts of edgy and extreme fiction.” —Don Coscarelli, director of John Dies At The End Twenty-something bartender Jason Bishop’s world is shattered when his estranged father commits suicide, but the greater shock comes when he learns his father was a secret agent in the employ of the Invisible Hand; an ancient society of spies wielding magic in a centuries-spanning war. Now the Golden Dawn—the shadowy cabal of witches and warlocks responsible for Daniel Bishop’s murder, and the death of Jason’s mother years before—have Jason in their sights. His survival will depend on mastering his own dormant magic abilities; provided he makes it through the training. From New York, to Paris, to worlds between worlds, Jason's journey through the realm of magic will be fraught with peril. But with enemies and allies on both sides of this war, whom can he trust? The Invisible Hand, who’ve been more of a family than his own family ever was? The Golden Dawn, who may know the secrets behind his mysterious lineage? For Jason Bishop, only one thing is for certain; the magic he has slowly been mastering is telling him not to trust anybody.