After spending an unknown number of days caged, chained, and tortured by men wearing hoods in the darkness of a root cellar who insist he robbed a bank and killed several women, twenty-five-year-old Ben Hawthorne is rescued by four men. But who are these men and why were they looking for him -- the son of Eli and Cora Hawthorne, born on a ranch outside of Nacogdoches, Texas, orphaned at the age of ten when his parents were killed by Comanches, and...

"The debut short story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, hailed as "Britain's female Stephen King" (Daily Mail), featuring ten bone-chilling and mind-bending tales. Timeslips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor's novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense plots, but with A Sliver of Darkness, she pulls us even further into her dizzying imagination. In "Final Course," the world has descended into...

In the wake of his brother's failure to retrieve a long-lost family heirloom, Griffin Lockhart disguises himself as a Scottish earl to head for London to search for the treasure, until a sharp-witted young socialite, Miss Anna Addison, threatens to destroy his mission with a scandalous bargain.

When Minerva Louise, a curious chicken, mistakes a baby crib for a rabbit hutch, she searches for the rabbit and in the process discovers new additions around the house.

Louisiana, 1890--Sarah Louise "Sadie" Callum is a master of disguise, mostly due to her training as a Pinkerton agent but also from evading overprotective brothers as she grew up. When she takes on a new assignment with international connections, she has no idea her new cover will lead her on the adventure of a lifetime.

When a careless worker places the wrong sign near a rhinoceros's cage, zoo visitors continually mistake the frustrated rhino for a hippopotamus, until a young boy comes along who can help.

After thirteen-year-old River Ryland is discovered to live mostly alone and a visit from Social Services goes horribly wrong, River runs away and a case of mistaken identity gives her the chance to life a live she never imagined.

When an American doctor in Chechnya helps a woman in distress, he is mistaken as a spy by a local gangster.

Eight years ago Abby Knight babysat for a problem teen named Elizabeth and now Elizabeth is back with a new name (Libby) and a whole new life that already belongs to Abby. Libby is even trying to steal Abby's boyfriend Marco until Abby finds herself the accused dupe in a bizarre murder plot.

Two cats that look alike live in the same building and, when they sneak out to visit one another, worry their young owners by their changed behavior.