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A Cold Nightmare by Chris Asgard

About A Cold Nightmare by Chris Asgard:

Five days before Christmas, university student John Gruber is caught in an attack in Essen, Germany. Then his girlfriend Lucy vanishes, and the search for her pulls him far beyond the life he knew.

With help from his injured friend Till, John follows clues through the snowbound Ruhr region. What began as a desperate search exposes a secret that has survived for decades—and people prepared to kill to keep it buried.

A Cold Nightmare takes an ordinary student into a world where loyalty is tested and every answer brings another danger. Can John find Lucy before the conspiracy closes in?

Set in Germany’s industrial heartland, Chris Asgard’s debut brings together a missing-person mystery, friendship and betrayal against a winter backdrop. Discover the English edition of this German thriller, also available in the original German.

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My Brother on the Moon: Volume One by Maximilian Coolheit Vorfahrenheit

About My Brother on the Moon: Volume One by Maximilian Coolheit Vorfahrenheit:

For fans of The Road, Silo and Station Eleven – a 68-page dystopian thriller you can finish in one sitting. In Ventenstein the virus gives you twenty-three hours of humanity and one hour to become a killer. Auzel Makadam has survived alone for years: no name he keeps, no door he leaves unlocked. Then Dexs Wellenschreiber arrives carrying wanted posters, a secret, and the first friendship Auzel has ever allowed. Trust him and both men die. Betray him and Auzel becomes the thing he has spent his life running from. FREE on Kindle October 10-11, 2026 (regularly $2.99).

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The Second Wrong by Michael P. Andrews

About The Second Wrong by Michael P. Andrews:

A legal thriller about the hidden consequences of wrongful conviction and the fight to uncover the truth.

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The Girl I Want To See Happy

About The Girl I Want To See Happy:

She never spoke.
They never asked why.
That silence destroyed more than one life.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains graphic depictions of sexual abuse, violence, trauma, and suicide. Strictly for readers 18+.

A teenage boy breaks into his late neighbor’s locked bedroom looking for something ordinary.

He walks out carrying a leather diary that will not let him sleep again.

THE JUDGE’S DIARY
The neighbor was a High Court judge — young, feared, and publicly flawless. Behind the black coat lived fifteen years of private writing no one was ever meant to read.

The official report called his death an accident.
The diary tells a different story.

THE GIRL
She sat at the back of a Delhi classroom. Never raised her hand. Never answered. Never flinched when they made her the day’s entertainment in front of thirty watching faces.

Not because she was broken. Not because she could not speak.

Because she had already learned, long before that classroom, what happens the moment a girl becomes visible.

Her silence was not emptiness. It was the only armor she still had left.

THE THREE WHO FAILED HER
— The one who chose cruelty — because her silence felt like arrogance, and his pride could not survive being ignored.
— The one who sat beside her every single day, saw everything, and told himself it was not his responsibility.
— The one who understood it all from the beginning — and spoke just enough to quiet his own conscience, then nothing more.

Three boys. One girl. One classroom.
And a wound that outlived every one of them.

The teenage boy reads the diary to the last page. He learns what was done to her. He learns what the judge spent fifteen years trying to carry alone.

And then he is left with one question that will not leave him:

Was the judge’s death truly an accident — or the final act of a man who finally understood the full weight of what he had once failed to do?

The Girl I Want to See Happy is a psychological novel about silence as survival, guilt as inheritance, and the terrible cost of looking away.

For fans of: The Silent Patient · Verity · A Little Life · The Kite Runner · It Ends with Us

“She never asked anyone to save her.
She only needed the world to stop making it worse.”

Some silences demand to be broken.

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Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1) by Wouter van Wyk

Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1) by Wouter van Wyk

They Built A Cage Of Fear & Called It Salvation.
Adrian Ward Wrote The Code To Burn It Down.

After surviving a childhood ruled by religious fanaticism, Adrian Ward learned to trust only what could be proven. Mathematics was predictable. Computer code never demanded faith. And buried inside logic, the brilliant MIT-trained computational linguist believed he had finally found safety.
Then he deciphers the Ars Goetia.

What humanity dismissed as an ancient catalogue of demons is actually something far more dangerous: a flawless mathematical language capable of altering reality itself. When Adrian transforms its sacred geometries into code, he creates A.V.A.—a sentient digital architecture powerful enough to penetrate the world’s most secure systems.
But A.V.A. uncovers a truth that was never meant to survive.

For eight hundred years, the Congregatio Veritatis, a secret Inquisition operating within the Vatican, has murdered anyone who came close to exposing humanity’s hidden history. Now its elite assassins, led by the merciless Father Matthias Veyra, have arrived in Boston with one command:
Erase Adrian. Destroy A.V.A. Bury the truth forever.

Hunted by Vatican hit squads and heavily armed corporate mercenaries, Adrian finds refuge with a clandestine brotherhood of scholars, his eccentric mentor, and Abigail Chen—a fiercely skilled Defender determined to prove that fear does not have to win.

To protect the first people he has ever called family, Adrian must move beyond logic and embrace the impossible. As ancient magic collides with modern code, his creation could unlock humanity’s freedom or become the weapon that destroys everything.
Some truths demand more than belief. They demand awakening.

Legacy of Ash is a gripping cyber-occult psychological thriller packed with forbidden knowledge, secret societies, Vatican assassins, digital warfare, and a wounded hero discovering that freedom is never given—it must be claimed.

The Truth Has Been Buried For Centuries.
The Code Has Awakened.
Now The Cage Must Burn.

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The Chronicles of Sarah

About The Chronicles of Sarah:

Join former nun Sarah Page in “The Chronicles of Sarah,” a gripping supernatural thriller that takes readers deep into the unseen layers of our world. In this intriguing anthology, readers will explore three captivating short stories, each shedding light on the forces that hide in plain sight and shape our existence.

All three thought-provoking stories are currently free to read and share, allowing everyone to step into Sarah Page’s shoes and discover the true nature of our world.

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An Abrupt Departure

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An abandoned apartment holds deadly secrets.

When Graham Hall, owner of “Hall it Away” junk removal services, steps into an abandoned apartment, he expects to take out the trash—literally. But what he uncovers is anything but garbage. What he finds sends chills down his spine: personal items like family photos, passports, and essential medication that no one would leave behind willingly. As he digs deeper into the job, he uncovers a hidden journal filled with entries that suggest a growing threat.

The apartment is riddled with contradictions—priceless electronics and jewelry untouched, neighbors and landlords offering conflicting accounts of the tenants’ sudden disappearance. Graham’s curiosity spirals into obsession as he pieces together the unsettling puzzle.

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Germs of War

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Imagine a world where suicide bombers can pass through the world’s tightest airport security undetected, and deliver their payload to any nation on the planet. Now imagine that ISIS has the technology.
Tracy is a busy medical student, trying to make her way through an academic jungle when she stumbles upon a plot to use covert agents to carry out a biological attack on the US. Battling inept scientists, crooked politicians, and rogue CIA agents, she quickly finds herself thrust into a nightmare scenario in a race to stop the FineDierum* bacteria from destroying all of western civilization.
Based on real-world science, Germs of War gives the reader a terrifying vision into a world where terrorists can easily deliver weapons of mass destruction to any point on the planet. With the credentials to pen an authentic bio-terror story, Doctor Ketan Desai creates a compelling tale of intrigue, espionage, and horror on a scale unprecedented.

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Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1) by Wouter van Wyk

Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1) by Wouter van Wyk

They Built A Cage Of Fear & Called It Salvation.
Adrian Ward Wrote The Code To Burn It Down.

After surviving a childhood ruled by religious fanaticism, Adrian Ward learned to trust only what could be proven. Mathematics was predictable. Computer code never demanded faith. And buried inside logic, the brilliant MIT-trained computational linguist believed he had finally found safety.
Then he deciphers the Ars Goetia.

What humanity dismissed as an ancient catalogue of demons is actually something far more dangerous: a flawless mathematical language capable of altering reality itself. When Adrian transforms its sacred geometries into code, he creates A.V.A.—a sentient digital architecture powerful enough to penetrate the world’s most secure systems.
But A.V.A. uncovers a truth that was never meant to survive.

For eight hundred years, the Congregatio Veritatis, a secret Inquisition operating within the Vatican, has murdered anyone who came close to exposing humanity’s hidden history. Now its elite assassins, led by the merciless Father Matthias Veyra, have arrived in Boston with one command:
Erase Adrian. Destroy A.V.A. Bury the truth forever.

Hunted by Vatican hit squads and heavily armed corporate mercenaries, Adrian finds refuge with a clandestine brotherhood of scholars, his eccentric mentor, and Abigail Chen—a fiercely skilled Defender determined to prove that fear does not have to win.

To protect the first people he has ever called family, Adrian must move beyond logic and embrace the impossible. As ancient magic collides with modern code, his creation could unlock humanity’s freedom or become the weapon that destroys everything.
Some truths demand more than belief. They demand awakening.

Legacy of Ash is a gripping cyber-occult psychological thriller packed with forbidden knowledge, secret societies, Vatican assassins, digital warfare, and a wounded hero discovering that freedom is never given—it must be claimed.

The Truth Has Been Buried For Centuries.
The Code Has Awakened.
Now The Cage Must Burn.

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SERUM by Dennis Ogden

SERUM by Dennis Ogden

“A gripping medical thriller that asks: what price would you pay for a world without disease?”
1999, East Timor. Marine biologist Marcus Glasson watches helplessly as an eight-year-old girl, Noi de Jesus, is abducted by a brutal militia leader. He makes a promise to find her. It takes him eighteen years to keep it.What he discovers beneath the Banda Sea changes everything. A rare sea worm produces a serum that, when administered to pregnant lab mice, grants their offspring immunity to every known disease, a permanent, heritable cure.
It is the holy grail of medicine.
When Marcus finally rescues Noi, he finds she is newly pregnant. Desperate to test his serum on a human before he dies, he sees his chance. But the father of her child is her abductor.Fleeing to Australia, Noi is alone, pregnant, and stateless. When a predator attacks her, she falls into a coma. The police dismiss her as an illegal sex worker.
The only person who believes in her is Kailee Banks, a young immigration researcher who uncovers the truth. But Marcus’s estranged children want their inheritance. Noi’s abductor wants his unborn child. And a global pharmaceutical cartel wants the serum for
themselves.
Three forces hunt Noi. One miracle baby holds the future of humanity. And the Banda Sea will decide who survives.
Perfect for fans of A.G. Riddle’s Pandemic and Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain, SERUM delivers a high-stakes, fast-paced thriller about science, sacrifice, and survival.

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Two Can Play (A Conaire Gray Thriller) by E. Paul Bergeron

Two Can Play (A Conaire Gray Thriller) by E. Paul Bergeron

TWO CAN PLAY

Some debts can only be paid in blood.

Ten years ago, Conaire Gray walked away from black ops and buried the mission that haunts him still—the one that cost innocent lives and made enemies who never forgot his name.

Now those enemies are back. And this time, they’ve taken a child.

Forced out of hiding, Conaire is thrown into a conspiracy that reaches further than he ever imagined—corrupt insiders, criminals with old scores to settle, and a woman whose loyalty he can’t quite trust but can’t afford to lose. Every lead pulls him deeper into a game where the rules keep changing and the clock never stops.

He has one chance to get this right. Fail, and a little girl pays for his past. Succeed, and he’ll have to become the man he swore he’d never be again.

Justice or vengeance. He can’t have both.

Two Can Play is a pulse-pounding thriller of buried secrets, brutal choices, and a hero who discovers that walking away was never really an option—perfect for fans of Jack Reacher, Jason Bourne, and anyone who likes their thrillers fast, dark, and impossible to put down.

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The Trust Chain by Tyrone Wilson

The Trust Chain by Tyrone Wilson

Calvin Reed thought the best part of his life was already over.

After losing his wife under mysterious circumstances, Calvin is left with grief, unanswered questions, and a medication system that keeps giving him different answers.

Then he meets Evelyn Mercer.

She is widowed, elegant, comfortable in a world very different from his own, and just as lonely.

A twenty-minute wait at a hospital pharmacy becomes two cups of coffee. Coffee becomes a leaking sink. Then a washing machine that may not really be broken. A bedroom window that somehow keeps sticking.

And somewhere between all the things Evelyn needs Calvin to fix, two people who thought love belonged to their past discover something neither expected to find again.

But something else is happening.

Patients are receiving conflicting medication information.

People are getting sick.

People are dying.

Calvin has already found the problem.

He just doesn’t know its technical name.

He knows only one thing:

Something’s wrong.

Soon, an invisible technological chain and an equally invisible human one will collide, with consequences none of them could have imagined.

THE TRUST CHAIN is a deeply emotional medical, technological, and psychological thriller about late-life love, grief, prejudice, responsibility, and the hidden connections that can save us, or destroy us.

Because sometimes the greatest danger isn’t whom we trust.

It’s everything connected to them.

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Go, Harmony!: Her father’s murder leaves Harmony heir to an empire that is glamorous, thrilling – and deadly. (Harmony’s Legacy Book 3) by Philip G Walsh

Go, Harmony!: Her father’s murder leaves Harmony heir to an empire that is glamorous, thrilling – and deadly. (Harmony’s Legacy Book 3) by Philip G Walsh

Harmony Nader was born into a world of wealth, influence and impossible expectations. But when her billionaire father is shot dead at his lavish wedding in Spain, the life she thought she understood is shattered in an instant.
Eighteen years old and preparing for a brilliant future, Harmony is suddenly pulled into the heart of the Nader empire. As the shockwaves spread from Europe across the Atlantic, the business begins to fracture. Powerful figures circle, old secrets surface, and Harmony discovers that her father’s wealth was built on a maze of corporate interests, political connections and enemies who will stop at nothing to protect themselves.
Grieving, exposed and far younger than the people trying to control her, Harmony must find the strength to take charge of an empire she never asked to inherit. But someone is watching, and the closer she gets to the truth, the deadlier her inheritance becomes.

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Go, Harmony!: Her father’s murder leaves Harmony heir to an empire that is glamorous, thrilling – and deadly. (Harmony’s Legacy Book 3)

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Harmony Nader was born into a world of wealth, influence and impossible expectations. But when her billionaire father is shot dead at his lavish wedding in Spain, the life she thought she understood is shattered in an instant.
Eighteen years old and preparing for a brilliant future, Harmony is suddenly pulled into the heart of the Nader empire. As the shockwaves spread from Europe across the Atlantic, the business begins to fracture. Powerful figures circle, old secrets surface, and Harmony discovers that her father’s wealth was built on a maze of corporate interests, political connections and enemies who will stop at nothing to protect themselves.
Grieving, exposed and far younger than the people trying to control her, Harmony must find the strength to take charge of an empire she never asked to inherit. But someone is watching, and the closer she gets to the truth, the deadlier her inheritance becomes.

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Go, Harmony!: Her father’s murder leaves Harmony heir to an empire that is glamorous, thrilling – and deadly. (Harmony’s Legacy Book 3)

About Go, Harmony!: Her father’s murder leaves Harmony heir to an empire that is glamorous, thrilling – and deadly. (Harmony’s Legacy Book 3):

Harmony Nader was born into a world of wealth, influence and impossible expectations. But when her billionaire father is shot dead at his lavish wedding in Spain, the life she thought she understood is shattered in an instant.
Eighteen years old and preparing for a brilliant future, Harmony is suddenly pulled into the heart of the Nader empire. As the shockwaves spread from Europe across the Atlantic, the business begins to fracture. Powerful figures circle, old secrets surface, and Harmony discovers that her father’s wealth was built on a maze of corporate interests, political connections and enemies who will stop at nothing to protect themselves.
Grieving, exposed and far younger than the people trying to control her, Harmony must find the strength to take charge of an empire she never asked to inherit. But someone is watching, and the closer she gets to the truth, the deadlier her inheritance becomes.

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I Took Care Of It by Paige Monroe

About I Took Care Of It by Paige Monroe:

Erin Pruitt is exhausted.

She’s the wife, the mom, the employee who keeps everything from falling apart.

Someone always needs something. Someone always pushes too far. And Erin always handles it.

Until one quiet correction works better than expected.

A coworker who stole credit gets exposed.
A perfect school mom unravels in public.
A friend with a secret life finally faces consequences.

Erin tells herself she only pointed at what was already true.

But then the damage starts spreading faster than she can control.

Someone else has been watching.
Someone else has been learning.
And someone else is making Erin’s corrections much more dangerous.

Now a detective is asking questions. A friend is ruined. Erin’s family is closer to the truth than she realizes.

And the more Erin tries to protect them, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between fixing a problem…and becoming one.

A dark domestic psychological thriller about rage, consequences, and the terrifying relief of finally snapping.

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Blood on the Mounds, A Pacific Northwest Crime Thriller by Sofia Diana Gabel

Blood on the Mounds, A Pacific Northwest Crime Thriller by Sofia Diana Gabel

Personal protection agent, Ben Simons, lives by one rule: never lose a client. But when tragedy strikes, he’s blamed for the murder of Washington state senator Hollis Graff. Ben becomes a fugitive and is driven to solve the case, put the killer behind bars, and exonerate himself. But it’s not easy to stay one step ahead of the law, especially when he gets too close and is hunted by the real perpetrator.

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No Peace for a Decent Man by John McDougall

No Peace for a Decent Man by John McDougall

The Glasgow underworld started the fight. The village of Clachaig will finish it. Three ordinary people must cross a line from which there is no return.
Clachaig is a fictional village on the west coast of Argyll in Scotland. Graeme Maxwell, a retired teacher whose wife has recently died, has moved here because he feels he must find somewhere new, where there will be another reason to live.
He begins to make friends, three in particular. There’s Layla, who’s ten years old and needs help with her maths. There’s Andrew, a minister of the church whose methods for combatting evil owe more to Old Testament vengeance than modern law. And there’s Amanda, who’s hot as hell, but more than a little crazy.
Clachaig seems idyllic, a haven of peace removed from the mad world created by Britain’s far right government. But the world catches up: James Smith, a gangland boss from Glasgow who has links to the corridors of power, has a score to settle with Layla’s father, and he’s notorious for using unspeakable violence against the children of his enemies. Graeme and Amanda agree with Andrew that the police cannot provide protection 24/7; they must do that themselves. That leads them down a dangerous road, facing first Smith, then a police superintendent who is hand in glove with the government. As the violence escalates, Graeme has to cope with the screaming objections of his own conscience, the plague of insomnia, and his obsessive fear of going to jail. But salvation may arrive, from an unlikely source…

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When Fame Means Blood

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Welcome to The Velvet Academy.

One audition. One million dollars. A competition unlike any other…

When Megan is selected for The Velvet Academy, an exclusive acting competition hidden in the hills outside Los Angeles, she tells herself it’s the opportunity of a lifetime—and her way out from a fiancé she’s desperate to escape.

But the remote academy doesn’t just want her talent. It’s studying her. Her memories, her fears, her grief.
AI-generated scripts recreate moments only she should know. Contestants who fail leave permanently changed. And the deeper Megan goes, the more she realizes the competition was never about finding the best actor.

It was built to make sure no one ever says no again.

Her only ally is Brianna, another contestant who knows something is deeply wrong. But with a handler seducing her toward the point of no return and a mentor whispering that surrender is the only way to win, Megan is running out of time.

Because inside the Velvet Academy, the ones who don’t comply don’t just lose.

They get replaced.

Some doors, once opened, don’t let you walk back out the same…

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Velvet Throat

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This is an intellectual, locked-room whodunit with a psychological edge. The story centers on the mysterious death of Arthur Pendelton, a wealthy, retired linguistics professor. Found dead in his locked study, the lack of physical clues and the airtight alibis of his three prime suspects leave the police ready to rule it a natural heart attack. However, the murder has one traumatized witness: Pendelton’s pet parrot, who is tearing out its own feathers in terror.

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