What the Hell Did I Just Read?You'll ask yourself this question at least thirteen times throughout this book. Each story is uniquely crafted to throw you off your game, to introduce you to a different style of writing, or an entirely different story.Each told by one of two masters of the craft.Kristen Lamb and Troy Lambert team up for the first time officially to bring you this collection of short stories, many of which have never been published anywhere...

Jonas Wergeland, a famous TV documentary producer with an almost magical knack for infidelity, returns one evening from the World's Fair in Seville to find his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is a quest to find the killer, and an endlessly inventive look at the conditions that have brought Wergeland to this critical juncture in life. From his hairsbreadth escape from a ravenous polar bear while filming in Greenland to a near-death...

Danger lurks within a close-knit group of London artists as a puppet master plots the fate of a beautiful actress in this psychological thriller. London actress Rebecca Laurence is center stage and shining in her role as Ophelia. For one audience member in particular, she is like a ballerina impaled in a musical box-one that he longs to add to his collection. Amid the thundering applause, he watches closely. Later, Rebecca meets the charismatic Seth...

This is a novel about something we all know, something we carry within us: our inward rage, our lives of fantasy. Not all of us accommodate rage or fantasy in the same way. Most of us--bless us--go about our peaceful business, though our confidential fury may produce fantasies we'd rather not confess. Sometimes some of us translate fantasies to outer life. Most of us do not. Brown, in KILLING EVERYBODY (he has no other name we know), carries in his...

Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City's Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror...

When John, a self-destructive nihilist, wakes up in a well alongside two fading men, one thing becomes clear: escape, or die trying._______________________________________ John awakes in a nightmare situation. Not knowing why, he's been trapped inside a pit of darkness with two dying men. His only connection to the outside world is their psychotic captor who gazes down on them in what they call, "The Fishbowl." The other men keep John...

Irex is a richly-drawn historical thriller set in the late 19th Century, based on an actual event.Captain Hutton struggles to contain the unfolding disaster that faces him aboard the ill-fated cargo vessel Irex. He must maintain his ship and crew in the face of terrible storms, while he tries to contain his conflicting feelings for his three passengers. He is enamoured of married Salvation Army wife Mrs Barstow, and resents the antagonism of the mysterious...

"Beautiful to the Bone's themes of fantasy, magical realism, suspense, psychological drama and more . . . move the story along (with) a prickling sense of foreboding that travels across the pages. The evolution of the characters and the strong, twisted and interesting plot . . . will appeal to all readers looking to get tangled in a murky drama . . . that will definitely stick with the reader after completion."Rating: 5 out of 5 (An amazing book;...

Andrea McIntyre is about to start medical school when a senseless crime turns her world upside down and takes away everyone she holds most dear. A masked killer invades her home, kills her entire family, and after having his way with her, leaves Andrea for dead. She manages to survive however, and she goes into hiding to keep herself safe. Six years later, when the killer is caught, Andrea decides to return to her childhood home, where she must face...

The story which began it all.A drifter strolls into a small college town bringing with him the lightning. What once was will never be the same again as citizens are murdered one by one. A sheriff with secrets, a deputy looking to protect the town, and a group of young adults driven to find the truth before it's too late.An edge of your seat thriller from beginning to end.