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The three horror/dark fiction novellas that make up this collection were previously released separately, in 2011 and 2012, and are offered here together in one volume for the first time. DARKNESS FALLS: Novelist Tyler Beckman was once a New York Times bestselling author and considered the heir to Stephen King. Now he's destroyed his marriage and squandered his money and is unable to write a single word of new material. Desperate to reclaim all he has lost, Tyler becomes convinced the only way to break through his writer's block is by returning to his old hometown of Darkness Falls, New ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. This mission should be easy, as these things go: smuggle a top-secret document out of the Soviet Union and deliver it to the White House. But no sooner does Tracie escape East Germany than things begin to careen out of control. A shadowy group of Russian radicals will stop at nothing to prevent delivery of the mysterious document. Soon Tracie is on the run with a civilian, suspecting a shocking conspiracy. With the clock ticking toward an assassination that would likely ...

When sixteen year old Paskagankee High School student Jake Beebe finds what appears to be a book of magic tricks hidden away inside a long-forgotten barn, he’s instantly fascinated. The book is clearly old, bound in dried-out, cracked leather and covered with bizarre symbology featuring unnatural, disturbing animal images: a capering horned goat. A beady-eyed crow’s head atop a horse’s body. Jake immerses himself in the book, and almost immediately it is all he can think about. But when he decides to attempt some of tricks contained inside the volume, the boy unwittingly calls forth ...

If you read Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, you'll love the thrillers of Allan Leverone: When air traffic controller Nick Jensen's wife - a Pentagon auditor - is killed in a car accident under suspicious circumstances, a grief-stricken Nick throws himself into his work at Logan International Airport in Boston. Days later, on duty during a midnight shift, Nick spies three heavily armed men dressed in black fatigues patrolling the corridors of the supposedly secure FAA facility. Nick escapes capture by the thugs and with United States President Robert Cartwright scheduled to fly into Logan the ...

A dirty politician. An ex-intelligence operative willing to do whatever it takes to help his boss get ahead. A terrified little girl, kidnapped off the street to be used as a pawn in a deadly game. And an aging assassin, looking to leave a life he's come to despise. Over the course of a week, their fates will intersect in New Hampshire and suburban Washington DC, as The Organization's Jack Sheridan faces off against an amoral and sociopathic foe in an intensely personal mission. Before the week is out, the mission may destroy not just Jack's career but his personal life and the lives of ...

Given up for adoption just hours after her birth, thirty-year-old Caitlyn Connelly has longed her entire life to uncover her family history. Subject to bizarre and inexplicable visions, Cait is desperate to learn whether her biological mother can provide any insight as to the origin of her unusual ability. When a local investigator learns Cait was born in a Boston suburb, the Tampa lawyer wastes no time booking a flight to the East Coast. In Boston, with the city under siege by a killer known as "Mr. Midnight," Cait's visions intensify, morphing from merely annoying to graphic and ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When top executives at a defense department contracting agency are brutally murdered, CIA Director Aaron Stallings unleashes his secret weapon on the case, beautiful Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner. She's been given instructions to follow the evidence wherever it leads and stop the killers at any cost, but almost immediately Tanner finds herself operating alone and without backup, knowing if she's caught or killed, the CIA will cut her loose like she never existed. The ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. SOMEONE IS STEALING CLASSIFIED MATERIAL AND MURDERING AMERICAN CITIZENS... And only one person can stop him...but she's being hunted by the KGB... ********** They call him "The Weasel." A Soviet operative so skilled at acquiring American secrets and murdering American citizens he has achieved near-mythic status in the intelligence community. When The Weasel is forced to leave a victim alive during his latest theft, legendary CIA Director Aaron Stallings realizes this might ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. A SOVIET TACTICAL NUKE HAS DISAPPEARED AND AN AMERICAN CITY MAY BE TARGETED... Tracie Tanner is back at work, tasked with infiltrating the home of a Russian general and acquiring intel regarding a rumored breakthrough in Soviet radar technology. But what she finds is far more horrifying than a technological advance: a tactical nuclear device has been stolen out of a supposedly secure Soviet military base. Together, Tracie and CIA Director Aaron Stallings determine that a ...

When struggling hardware store owner Bill Ferguson witnesses a kidnapping in progress, he reacts instinctively, breaking up the crime and saving a young girl. But the kidnapper, a sociopath known as the "I-90 Killer," escapes and vows revenge, targeting Ferguson's own daughter as his next victim. Now one terrified father must unravel a plot that may go much deeper than he realizes, racing against time to save his only child from an unthinkable fate.

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling master of crackling suspense comes a tale of the supernatural that will leave you breathless... When Justin and Lindie Cooper move into their dream home, a rambling, oddly-shaped “Handyman’s Special” in Covenant, New Hampshire, they are unaware of their house’s violent and tragic history. But they will become aware, and quickly. Within a week, Justin Cooper is dead under suspicious circumstances, and Lindie must deal not just with her grief, but with a police investigator—and an entire town—convinced she is trying to get away ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. The Amber Room treasure has been missing for nearly a half-century. But suddenly, finding it becomes of the utmost importance. When an elderly, anonymous West German man disappears, CIA Director Aaron Stallings dispatches Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner to the scene. Working with the assistance of a CIA operative she's not sure she can trust, Tracie faces her toughest assignment yet - pick up the trail of the mysterious Amber Room key, utterly unique and critical to ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When a secret Russian military facility is discovered deep inside the Soviet satellite nation of Bashkir, CIA black ops specialist Tracie Tanner is tasked with traveling to the Ural Mountains and placing the facility under surveillance. A simple assignment. But once in Bashkir, Tracie observes something so shocking it changes everything. What was once a straightforward mission now becomes nearly suicidal: Tracie must infiltrate the heavily fortified facility and then ...

An isolated village, remote and vulnerable. A series of brutal murders. And a vengeful spirit born of tragedy, reawakened after a centuries-old massacre. Three distinctly different people must come together, racing against time and their own personal demons in a desperate attempt to stop an unstoppable killer, and in so doing, save their town. Welcome to Paskagankee, Maine. You may not survive the visit. *This book was previously released by StoneHouse Ink under the same title* ********** Praise for Allan Leverone: "Allan Leverone delivers a taut crime drama full of twists and conspiracy......

A sacred Navajo artifact, imbued with a shocking and dangerous power. An amoral con man, willing to stop at nothing to achieve his goals. And a tiny northern Maine town, isolated and vulnerable. Last November, Paskagankee, Maine was shaken to its core, held hostage by a centuries-old curse, terrorized by a brutal killing spree stopped at the last possible moment by new police chief Mike McMahon and beautiful young patrol officer Sharon Dupont. Now, just as the pair - and the town - is beginning to recover, a new horror comes calling. Billionaire Seattle software designer Brett Parker is in ...

WELLSPRING is Book Three in the Paskagankee series of supernatural suspense novels set in a tiny village in northern Maine. When contractor Dan Melton uncovers a secret underground death chamber filled with two human skeletons and what appears to be a living naked man, he notifies police immediately. But by the time patrol officer Sharon Dupont arrives on the scene, the man has vanished, disappearing into thin air. Within hours, a Paskagankee resident is murdered in his remote cabin, and brand-new police chief Pete Kendall calls on recently retired Mike McMahon for assistance in solving the...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Allan Leverone comes DEAD RECKONING, the fourth in the Jack Sheridan Pulp Thriller series written in homage to the old-time paperback pulp novels from decades past: Jack Sheridan is back on The Organization's roster of operatives, although he's not exactly thrilled with the idea. His first assignment upon his return is to eliminate a mob kingpin with a penchant for running down innocent people in drunk driving accidents. But right from the start, there are problems, the first being the fact that the subject of the contract is already dead...

A dying city, cut off from the rest of civilization. A midnight visit by three people to a deserted graveyard from which only two will return. A young woman who haunts the nightclubs of the city in an endless search to find the man who ruined her life... All these stories and many more tales of noir, crime and dark fiction are featured in this shocking collection from author Allan Leverone. ---------- Allan Leverone is the Amazon bestselling author of the thriller, THE LONELY MILE, and is a 2012 Derringer Award winner as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee. In addition to THE LONELY MILE,...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. Actions have consequences. Tracie Tanner understands that better than most. She is about to discover just how devastating those consequences can be. Last winter, on a mission to root out and eliminate the driving force behind a Soviet assassination program, Tracie tortured a KGB operative to extract critical intelligence. In a fateful decision, she spared the Soviet operative's life. Now that man has returned, vowing to extract the ultimate vengeance on the woman who ...

A dead cop. A grieving father. A vicious street gang. And a retired operative, reluctant to return to the life of violence he's so recently left behind. Jack Sheridan is retired. He's informed his Organization contact in no uncertain terms. Janie Tolliver's kidnapping and the resulting wreckage of his relationship with Edie has convinced him it is time to move beyond his deadly past. But when he is approached by a shattered old man with a heartbreaking story, Jack's resolve to walk away will be put to the test. And when Edie urges him to offer his assistance, Jack knows he must do what he ...