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Holly Lin. Kindermädchen am Tag, Auftragskiller bei Nacht. Holly Lin hat ein neues Leben. Eine neue Identität. Etwa ein Jahr ist es her, seit sie ihren Job als Auftragskillerin der Regierung an den Nagel gehängt hat. Nun lebt sie in einer kleinen Stadt in Texas, verbringt ihre Nächte als Barkeeper und sortiert tagsüber Bücher in der örtlichen Bibliothek ein. Doch das alles ändert sich schlagartig, als sie auf eine blutüberströmte Frau trifft – mit einem Baby in den Armen.

Refuge, New Hampshire, is a small town. The kind found on postcards. Their biggest concern is the rowdy summertime revelers making their way up from Massachusetts and New York. And with most of the town's residents in neighboring Ashland, for the Fourth of July fireworks show, Refuge is quieter than usual. That is, until the Baptist church's bell starts ringing - on its own. The bell chimes faster and faster, reaching a frenetic pace, as though rung by the Devil himself. But the bell is just the beginning.

Holly Lin. Kindermädchen am Tag, Auftragskiller bei Nacht. Javier Diaz ist tot. Dessen ist sich Holly Lin sicher … immerhin war sie es, die Javier und seine Männer tötete. Um ihre Familie zu beschützen, muss sie nun jedoch nach Mexiko aufbrechen und auch Javiers Vater ausschalten, bevor dieser vom Tod seines Sohnes erfährt. Eigentlich eine einfache Mission – aber für Holly Lin verlaufen die Dinge nur selten einfach... Ihr Plan ist es, jeden auf Diaz' Anwesen umzubringen. Doch dann entdeckt sie eine Frau und ein Kind, welche sich auf dem Gelände versteckt halten.

While on vacation in Las Vegas, a businessman wakes up in a strange hotel room to find a dead woman in the bathtub. Panicked, he runs. But before he can get far, a pair of detectives stop him. Desperate, he tells them that he’s innocent. That there’s no way he killed the woman. That he’ll do anything not to go to prison. That’s when they offer him a way out. But there is no way out—as the detectives will soon learn.

Five years ago Elizabeth Piccioni's husband was arrested for being a serial killer. Her life suddenly turned upside down, she did what she thought was best for her newborn baby: she took her son and ran away to start a new life. Now, living in a quiet part of the Midwest with a new identity, Elizabeth is ready to start over. But one day she receives a phone call from a person calling himself Cain. Cain somehow knows about her past life. He has abducted her son, and if Elizabeth wants to save him she must retrieve her husband's trophies - the fingers he cut off each of his victims.

The world believed Daniel Burke was dead. At least, the few people in the government who knew he existed did. Once part of an elite black ops team, Burke faked his death so he could avenge his brother. Now that those responsible have been brought to justice, he plans to leave the country and start a new life. But before Burke can even get on the plane, his old team has tracked him down.

 Things are bad for Clay Miller and George Hitchens. For starters, they're on the run from a posse out for blood. Then, as they ride through the Utah desert, the two come across the crumpled body of a young boy on the brink of death. 

A writer, whose wife has been missing for eight months, encounters a familiar old woman with an odd request - a request that will introduce him to a surprising evil...

The town of Refuge has finally come to a safe place. Surrounded by a serene freshwater ocean, it seems the town has been given a reprieve from the terror it has experienced since the shifts began. The wounded are treated. Fractured psyches are mended. And the search for answers begins. But then, the town shifts again, and it is deposited in a world of massive scale, where trees tower like skyscrapers and the creatures flying overhead are the size of 747s.

When eighteen-year-old Christopher Myers' parents are murdered, something is written on his bedroom door, a mark in his parents' blood that convinces the police the killer has targeted Christopher as the next victim. To keep him safe, he travels away with his estranged grandmother and uncle to the small town of Bridgton, New York. And it's in Bridgton that he meets an extraordinary young man who has come with his father to stop an unrelenting evil.