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In River Glen, Oregon, rumors are spreading about the Babysitter Stalker. One victim was fatally stabbed. A second fell—or was pushed—from a rooftop deck. High school sophomore Jamie Whelan, scheduled to watch the Ryerson twins tonight, isn't worried. She's more interested in the party she'll go to later, as soon as her sister Emma arrives to take over babysitting duties. Twenty years after that night's vicious attack, Emma remains scarred in body and mind. Jamie still feels guilty over trading places that fateful evening. Then suddenly another young babysitter is attacked.

For process-server-turned-private-investigator Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted PI Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife number two: Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell.

“The Buddha in hell! What kind of sense is that?” Near-death experiences which are frightening, alienating, and/or hellish are the hardest of all to understand. They are most often explained as punishment or evidence of bad character. Nancy Evans Bush, MA, President Emerita of the International Association for Near-Death Study and a veteran researcher of distressing NDEs, explores questions that swarm around them: Aren’t these things hallucinations? Or do they prove the existence of Hell as described by medieval Christianity? After seventeen hundred years, is that still all we have as...

Almost one in five near-death experiences are not peaceful suggestions of heaven. In a wide-ranging and far from gloomy look at "the other near-death experience," Nancy Evans Bush gives the first comprehensive look at a fascinating but neglected topic: NDEs and deathbed visions of fear, emptiness, and even hell. A wonderfully readable book, grounded in thirty years of experience and research, Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences is packed with first-person accounts, engrossing discussion and factual answers to a myriad of questions, both religious and secular, with ...

The Crissmans, owners of Crissman & Wolfe department store, were once one of Portland's most powerful families. There's still enough fortune left to sow mistrust between Lucy, her bohemian sister Layla, their brother Lyle, and his grasping wife Kate. When a charity event at the Crissman Lodge ends in a fatal poisoning, Lucy becomes a prime suspect. But the truth is even more twisted, and Lucy can't be sure which of her family is being targeted...or who to fear.

Mackenzie Laughlin has reluctantly moved to the Villages as bodyguard to Daley Carrera, who claims someone is pranking her and her husband. Mac expects a simple case of petty squabbles between new and longtime residents. Instead, she hears rumors of squalid affairs and sinister disappearances that tie in to a missing persons investigation led by her partner, Jesse James Taft.

Callie Cantrell has only fragmented memories of the car accident that killed her husband and son. One year later, she's still trying to start over, yet she can't shake her unease. Especially when former LA cop West Laughlin barges into her life, searching for his young nephew. At first he thinks Callie's lying about who she is and what she knows. But soon it's clear that Callie and West are linked by a killer who has bent others to his twisted will. The worst night of Callie's life was just the beginning of his vengeance. And when her turn comes again there will be no escape...

Twenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family's old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who'd been seen around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, again. Ira Dillinger, the family's wealthy patriarch, has summoned his children home for his upcoming wedding. Eldest son, Colton, and his siblings don't approve of their father's gold-digging bride-to-be. But someone is making his displeasure felt in terrifying ways, setting fires just like in the past. Only this time, there will be no survivors.

Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth’s high school. Most in Jessie’s tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret - one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer.

For two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission - one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. And there are so many others who must be sent back to the hell that spawned them. Laura Adderley didn’t plan to get pregnant by her soon-to-be ex-husband, though she’ll do anything to protect her baby. But now reporter Harrison Frost is asking questions about the mysterious group of women who live at Siren Song lodge. Harrison hasn’t figured out Laura’s connection to the story yet.

Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it’s a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don’t know all the terrors buried within its walls....

Elizabeth Gaines Ellis is an ordinary suburban wife and mother. That's what she tells herself as she flits between her Realtor job, yoga class, and caring for her daughter, Chloe. But for months now, Elizabeth has worried that she's far from normal - that she's somehow the cause of a series of brutal, horrible deaths.

Number one New York Times best-selling author Fern Michaels' Christmas anthologies have become a heartwarming holiday tradition, and this year, she is joined by fellow best-selling author Nancy Bush, for a powerhouse combination!

Weil sie verspätet aus der Mittagspause zurückkehrt, entgeht Liv um Haaresbreite einem Massaker an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Doch galt der Anschlag wirklich der Firma, die Gerüchten zufolge für das US-Militär arbeitet? Liv befürchtet, dass sie das eigentliche Opfer hätte sein sollen. Sie vermutet einen Zusammenhang mit dem mysteriösen Päckchen, das sie vor wenigen Tagen aus dem Nachlass ihrer Adoptivmutter erhalten hat. In Panik kidnappt Liv den nächstbesten Wagen samt Fahrer. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Undercover-Detective August Rafferty.

Vor der Post in Oregon wird die nackte Leiche des Postboten gefunden. Um seinen Hals trägt er ein Schild mit den Worten "Ich muss für das bezahlen, was ich getan habe". Wenig später taucht ein weiterer nackter Mann auf, gefesselt, vor einer Grundschule. "Ich will, was ich nicht haben kann" steht auf dem Schild um seinen Hals. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Stiefbruder von Detective September Rafferty.

"Was sie zuvor mit mir getan, das tu ich jetzt den andern an" ritzt er ihnen in die nackte Haut, nachdem er sie vergewaltigt und stranguliert hat. Seine Opfer sind alle jung, hübsch, brünett - genau wie die eine, auf die er es abgesehen hat: Detective September Rafferty vom Laurelton Police Department, Oregon. Ihr schickt er eine ihrer Kinderzeichnungen, auf die er in blutroten Buchstaben seine tödliche Nachricht kritzelt. September versteht sofort, dass sie den Serienmörder offenbar aus Kindertagen kennt und er hinter ihr her ist - doch warum?

Eine elitäre Highschool-Clique, ein tödlicher Unfall – und 15 Jahre später gibt es erneut Tote ... Wer hat es auf die ehemaligen Schülerinnen und Schüler des gemeinsamen Highschool-Jahrgangs abgesehen? "Last Girl Standing – Wer wird überleben?" ist ein temporeicher, mitreißender Thriller von den Schwestern und Erfolgsautorinnen Lisa Jackson und Nancy Bush! In der Schule waren sie als die Fantastischen Fünf bekannt – eine Mädchen-Clique, so bewundert wie gefürchtet. Ihre gemeinsame Zeit endete jäh, als eine von ihnen bei der Abschlussparty ums Leben kam.