Nightmare Collection

It was a blood-curdling crime that rocked the town to its core, leaving some with permanent scars and others with deep regrets. A young girl had been brutally slain. Memories were beginning to fade, but during the renovation of the old parsonage, the murder rears its ugly head again when workers discover a time-ravaged portrait of the young victim. Conservator Annora Garde is hired by the local police to clean the painting and expose what lies buried within it. Inspector Scott Mac MacGowan is convinced the mural is a cryptic confession that will solve the cold case, but it's looking more and more like someone will do whatever it takes to keep the past in the past. Together, Mac and Annora struggle to put the pieces of the puzzle together, in order to provide closure to surviving family members. Toxic mold obscures blood-chilling clues, and the painting has an eerie life of its own. Annora is haunted by what she reveals, by the dirt she digs up, by her own tragic losses, and perhaps even by the young victim herself. As she closes in on the killer, the killer inches ever closer to her, and she will come face to face with a brutal truth: some murderers never come clean.

When Denise Walker begins her first year of college at a prestigious university, a strange encounter with one of her professors piques her curiosity. Denise believes the young and sexy professor is attracted to her, as she is to him, and accepts his invitation to join him on his yacht over spring break. Because she can feel the amazing chemistry between them, she's confused by his self-restraint. She becomes even more confused when he begins to tell her his life story, day after day, on the yacht. The details of his past are so incredible, so fantastical, involving time travel and alternate worlds, that she doesn't know what to believe, especially when he reveals a connection to her and her family. Why has he really brought her on the boat? And what will he do with her now that she's there?

Is her neighbor a friend or a foe? Soccer mom Yvette Palmer lives an ordinary life in San Antonio, Texas when a box is delivered to her by mistake, and in taking it to its rightful owner, a crotchety neighbor named Mona who shares her back fence, is drawn into a strange and haunting tale. Mona's ratty robe, mood swings, and secretive behavior all raise red flags, and Yvette is sure someone else is living there despite Mona's claim to live alone, but Yvette is unable to break away as she listens to how Mona transformed from a young college woman about to be married to the odd, reclusive, ghost of a woman she is now. As Yvette listens to her neighbor's tale, she discovers a shocking connection, but doesn't know whether Mona's come to help or to harm her and her family.

Meet Samantha Beck and Rebecca Nisha, two women born twenty-five years and hundreds of miles apart, yet joined together by a shocking family ritual. When Samantha discovers the remains of an ancient tribe in Pennsylvania, she expects to at last prove her grandmother's Native American ancestry and to make a name for herself as a budding archaeologist. She does not expect to make an enemy and a lover of a fellow descendant, son of Rebecca Nisha, who unwittingly wears a necklace made of his dead mother's bones. As the novel unfolds, alternating between Samantha's story and Rebecca's twenty-five years before, Samantha becomes more and more determined to discover the devastating mystery that estranged Rebecca's wealthy Pennsylvania Dutch father from her half-Native American son. Samantha gradually uncovers a troubling secret and decides to risk everything, love and career, to restore harmony to Rebecca's family.