News — Suspense

Slowly Rising Copyright © 2018 by Jayne Fresina   Prologue Lost and Found   Once upon a time, a man called Amos Wilding unintentionally built himself a singing house. It is debatable, whether or not he ever heard it sing. But certainly, when other folk did, they wished they hadn't. The sound was described as a fluttering, flickering, puttering whisper that traveled through the walls like a swarm of invisible butterflies— not the customary, fragile, dainty sort, but a dangerous, rare breed, poisonous and arbitrarily destructive— drifting from no fixed place and traveling in no discernible direction. This music was...

Bitten by Midnight  Midnight Mississippi, 4 Copyright © 2018 by Kelex Kane doesn’t much like the idea of becoming a member of the King’s Guard through default. He’s much more interested in remaining on the taskforce he’s already on—an elite group of Midnight police who hunt the things that nearly killed him twenty years before. The things that did kill his entire family. And left him as a Halfling vampire. He’s vowed to destroy every vampire in Midnight, eager for vengeance. During one of the taskforce's raids—the one that garnered him his berth as a guardsman—he comes across a man...

Handling the Perks D.A.R.K, Inc, Book Three Copyright © 2018 by Aliyah Burke   Chapter One Rhodi hopped out of his jeep and strode across the parking lot toward the front door to the new facility that was housing the headquarters of D.A.R.K., Inc. warm Montana sun streamed down on him from the cloudless sky. The two-story building fit the needs perfectly. Individual offices for him and each of his brothers. All four had joined and created this. At him, Derek, Kristopher, and himself—Rhodi. Opening the door, he waved at the woman behind the counter. “Good morning, Mr. Wilder.” “Emma...

Code Name: Sleeper Copyright © 2018 by Aliyah Burke   Chapter One   Remote Super Max Prison   Michael Whyte spit out the blood pooling in his mouth. Another day, another fight. They always came at some point during the day. Staring at his reflection, he touched the fading bruise on his cheekbone, put there courtesy of one pissed off Hawaiian-Samoan male. He moved his fingertips to the new one around his left eye—that was from a pissed off Aryan nation jackass. Not that they were anything but pissed off ninety-eight percent of the time. “Whyte!” Sending another line of...

The Detective's Lover The Maddoxes, Book 1 Copyright © 2017 by Aliyah Burke     Chapter One The newly-dark skateboard park was shattered with a single shot, followed by muzzle flashes and the stutter of an automatic weapon. Ra-tat-tat-tat. Ra-tat-tat-tat. Silence returned as quickly as it had been destroyed. Not even dogs barked in the area. As the night progressed, rain came and cleansed the city. Blood mixed with the water and washed down into Seattle’s drainage system. An early morning jogger heading through the park discovered the body. He grabbed his phone from his pocket, called 911, and then...