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Detective Todd Richards is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of Father O'Malley, a priest who committed suicide in an abandoned convent. A routine investigation takes a turn for the strange, however, as Richards finds out that the convent is rumored to be "demon possessed" and a mysterious nun appears whenever the detective comes into the decrepit old building. Richards is a skeptic of the supernatural and denies all of the strange goings on in the convent but he soon realizes that the devil is not mocked in his horror thriller.

On August 24, 2011, Michelle Despain came home to find her husband, Marc, shot dead in the family's Arkansas home. As a real estate investor and appraiser, Marc provided his wife and kids with anything they could ever want - but while the family seemed to have more than enough money, there was trouble brewing under the surface of all that happiness...the family's idealized version of the American Dream all came to an end when Despain came home from a shift at the bank August 24, 2011 - and found her husband lying dead on the kitchen floor. Hysterical, Despain dialled 911 and attempted, incoherently, to explain to the operator that her husband had been shot, and she was fearing for her own life.

A year after Alec Bernhard had to make the call to take his wife off life support, after a horrific accident he had lost all hope to ever be happy again. All he had left as a reminder of his wife was her cat Storm, but when Storm goes missing Alec goes on a mission to find her. He meets Laura Mason who works at the local pet shelter, and she selflessly offers to help him find his cat. He soon realizes that there is more to life than death, and when he comes close to losing Laura he discovers that love can be revived.

WHEN YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 'SEX PARTY' TURNS DEADLY Joan and David Shannon were swingers who met other married couples for "sex parties" through the Internet. David would introduce his wife to Jeffrey WIlson and the two quickly fell in love. David grew jealous and warned his wife to stop seeing Wilson. Joan, however, wanted to keep seeing her swinger friend. In a bizarre series of events, she enlisted the aid of her fifteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth to kill David.

Joanna thought that inheriting her aunt's home in the Amish town would only be a case of signing papers and forgetting about it...Forgetting about the town just as her mother did years ago. But she finds out that the house still needs work and the bakery her aunt owned still employs numerous people.Joanna wants to just sell the assets and get out of the town...but she begins to experience growth in herself that she didn't anticipate. Surrounded by happiness, her former life beckons as her friends and ex-boyfriend beg for her to come back...but a budding romance with one of the bakery employees is pulling at her heart to stay. Will becoming Amish be the thing that Joanna has been needing all her life?

Joe Sullivan is framed by a biker gang and vows revenge when he is released from prison. Unable to wait, he breaks jail with the help of his girl, Pat. But the bikers kidnap Ann Martin, a stranger who sympathetically corresponded with Joe while he was in jail. As his plans to exact revenge are complicated by Ann's presence, Joe works to find a way to rescue her.

Nicole is a mail order bride that has suffered one indignity after another when traveling to the Wild West to marry a man she finds disgusting...and she now finds herself facing more adversity when she falls in love with a man who is on the top of the Most Wanted list. His name is Jake and he's the most elusive criminal in the West...but he cannot help but save the needy Nicole in her moment of crisis. The two begin a romance and Jake starts to think he should change his ways for a domesticated life with Nicole. She's running from her husband and he's running from the law...now the only place they want to run is into each other's arms.

Cora is pouty teen girl who is dreaming of her eighteenth birthday celebration. But the frantic preparations for her single mom's wedding causes everyone to forget about her birthday...Except the nerd who has had a crush on her since childhood.

The Earth's surface is now uninhabitable and Ariel has lived in a completely different world than her parents. She has spent her whole life in the underground caverns under her once quaint small town. Now, she finds her community regressing back to the days of yore where the sick and elderly are killed out of convenience to the healthy...They take up too many resources and are marked for death. Because of this, finding friends is hard...But when Ariel meets Will, she begins to let her guard down. The two cannot help but form a bond and begin to notice strange goings on in their underground community. When a close friend goes missing, the two begin to question things that their elders do not. The two teens begin their own investigation into the disappearance and find out that the conspiracy falls deeper in their dystopian world than they had ever imagined.

Two Amish short stories: Amish Spring - Katie is the eldest daughter in an Amish family. She has a younger sister, Mary, that has recently become bedridden due to a freak accident. Katie has now devoted her entire life to taking care of her. But Mary soon grows increasingly bitter and Katie struggles to cope. Complicating things is a young man who now takes a shine to the Katie after exploring the world outside the Amish community. Can Katie fulfill her obligation to Mary while still finding love? Amish Awakening - Hannah's husband Aaron died when they were married only three years and since then Hannah's been a widow, without child. She's a teacher in her community and lives her life as an obedient Amish woman. She never had a happy life with Aaron and behind the scenes he was an abusive controlling husband, and his death came as a relief and she vowed to never marry again. Mason left the Amish community shortly after his 18th birthday, but he soon found himself overwhelmed by the modern world and after an incident with a young woman he dated leaves him tainted and scarred he decides to return back to his roots. He arrives at Lancaster and discovers that the girl he courted 15 years ago was still a part of the community and single. Hannah is torn, knowing that she still has feelings for Mason but can she overlook the fact that he was an outsider in more ways than one? Mason faces a few choices in life, one of them is to lay down his old life, in order to prove to Hannah that he is worthy of her affection

An anthology of Mail Order Bride & Christian Romance : Emmy is with her ailing grandmother and things are looking bleak. Her parents were killed in a horrible carriage accident caused by a Welstead driver. Dolly has never forgiven the family for killing her daughter and son-in-law. She never shares this information with Emmy, wanting to protect her from the trauma so when Emmy answers a mail-order-bride ad for a Mr. Miner Welstead, she has no idea he's connected to the family that killed her parents. She packs up her grandmother and they set for the west.

Growing up, Rebecca Yoder and Jacob Miller had always been very close. In a way, it seemed like they didn't have much choice. Their parents lived next door to one another and so all of their children played together often when they were growing up and throughout the years, they all attended church together. They even ate dinner together regularly! The Yoder and Miller families truly seemed to be destined to be joined together in one way or another and Jacob's mother, Diana, believed that it would be through Rebecca and Jacob's special bond. But when Jacob is the cause of a terrible accident, Rebecca turns cold toward him. Will Rebecca realize what a good man Jacob truly is or will her heart forever remain closed off to him?

Delilah had spent the morning asleep, recovering from her long journey, waking in the late. She had washed and dressed, and should have headed downstairs already. But instead she had been sitting by the bedroom window for almost an hour, watching everyone who passed...She looked at each man she saw and tried to imagine how she would feel, if this were Jacob...Some looked a little frightening. Some were old, or a little too young, but many seemed as though they could be a twenty-eight year old deputy...Don't get your hopes up, Delilah told herself sternly, as an unreasonably good-looking man walked up the road toward the Moss's place...It's not him...She looked at him again. No, far too handsome...But what if it was him?

It was a damp, dark evening in downtown Victoria, British Columbia, on November 28th, 2012. At 7.11pm, in a restaurant across the street from The Empress Hotel, a man called the police to report a 26 year old woman standing outside the hotel, barefoot and in severe distress, then sat observing her until the authorities arrived. Assuming the woman was safe in the care of Victoria Police Department's officers, the man left the restaurant and returned home. The police officers spoke to the woman for 30-45 minutes and, determining that she was neither a threat to herself or others, left her where they had found her, still barefoot in the cold, at about 8pm. Emma Fillipoff was never seen again.

McCamey, Texas. A town of less than two thousand people, out in the scorching Texas desert, where downtown is a stretch of black road with marginally more buildings on either side. McCamey is the type of town that lies, more or less, entirely forgotten by the rest of the United States, down in the deep heat of Texas. It was in McCamey, in 1940, that Gary Mark Gilmore was born. Gilmore would have, perhaps, gone one to live and die a completely unnoticed life if circumstances had been different. As it stands, Gary Mark Gilmore would gain fame through his life for being the first person sentenced to death in the United States in nearly ten years for the crimes that he committed.

Detective Cain investigates a murder which began by the discovery of a disembodied foot. After the victim is identified, the victim's ex-roommate Nikki Drexlerbecomes scared that she may be in danger and stays at the detective's place until they can get to the bottom of the situation. Both she and the roommates were soft core porn stars and the detective finds himself becoming attracted to her with the more of her videos that he watches. Learning about his obsession, Nikki is able to seduce him. But as he investigates clue after clue, he finds out that a large conspiracy is in play with Nikki at the center. Is she a potential victim or a killer?

Parsons is a mentally unhinged man working at a job that screams drudgery. He is abused daily by his boss, co-workers and the patients at the hospital where he's employed. Wanting desperately to be seen as someone worthy of respect, he begins to stalk criminals at night and bringing them to justice. This "work" becomes a viral hit as he becomes the anonymous vigilante that a crime-ridden city needed...But obstruction comes in the form of Detective Grimes who is assigned to stop him even though he believes in the work Parsons is doing.

The 1950's for the United States of America is best remembered as some of the most trying times in the history of the nation. While the early 1950's saw the baby boom, the late half of the decade was marred by civil instability and mistrust. Many Americans, especially those in the southern United States, lost their trust in the American dream as well as the government. Many of those Americans took their destiny into their own hands.Charles Starkweather may have been the epitome of the decline of human morals in the late 1950's. In one of the most notable murder sprees in the modern era, Hollywood has recreated the life of Charles Starkweather many times over.Charles Starkweather is best known for a murder spree that spanned over the course of just a few months. The circumstances surrounding this reign of terror make it unique to the crime community

Time travel and psychological suspense are at the forefront as Marie blames her husband for their daughter's death. Going through the motions in their failing marriage, she turns to alcohol and drugs to medicate the pain of her daughter's passing. Until one night, she is visited by the younger version of her husband who shows her how the past could have been avoided and makes the present clear.

Irene is a young Amish woman who is chomping on the bit to get out of her Amish community. She wants more than what her family has prescribed for her. Her father is now widowed and has refused to remarry after her mother died. Instead, he wants to keep Irene home and has forbade her from participating in the Rumspringa tradition...But there is a widow in town who catches her father's eye. With his back turned, Irene begins to entering the courting charms of Joe, a handsome outsider visiting the town.

Money is a great motivator for many things in life and it is an exceptional motivator when it comes to taking another person's life. It is not often that an individual succeeds in murdering someone and getting away with it, yet over the decades the number of cold cases have still stacked up. Some people seem to simply vanish and this is one of those cases. A family at a loss for answers, this case had a lasting impact on many as a strong willed and charismatic woman was taken from this world.

An Amish romance anthology... For years, since Joseph Freud can remember, his daed had been an abusive manipulator, but now, the very man who wouldn't bother sparing the rod was bed ridden and Joseph cannot fathom why his mamm would still bother. But when his friend Amos informs him of Grace's return to Mountain Park, he's conflicted. He had loved her since they were young. But things had changed, he had changed. Hatred and anger had blackened his soul, and he was not in a good place. Grace Smith had her fair share of heartache and pain if there was one person who had the right to hate it was her. Her parents were both murdered, but she found it in her heart to forgive the man who caused her so much pain. When she sees Joseph again after all this time, she decides to connect with him again... But would Joseph let her into his heart, and would she be able to help him understand the true meaning of forgiveness?

Southern girl Daisy is left widowed after only a few months of marriage and she turns to a mail-order bride service in order to save herself. She is sent to Wyoming and couldn't be happier upon meeting her new husband, Jess. He is strong and generous. He introduces her to a simple life in Wyoming and she feels as if she as hit the jackpot...But things don't stay that way. Daisy is pregnant from her previous marriage and Jess had been adamant about wanting a woman with no children. Will Daisy pretend that the baby is Jess? Or will she tell the truth and put herself and possibly the baby into more hardship?

Some guys you can tell just by looking at them...Something ain't right. After meeting them, most people say "he gave me the creeps" or "I need to take a shower" after only a few minutes. Profiled here are the creepiest of the creepy, serial killers such as Mark Twitchell. Online dating has become the norm for many of us. Busy lives, children, sometimes working two jobs in order to provide as a single parent, means that it's not so easy anymore to meet people in 'real life'. But this profile is different - this profile belongs to prisoner Mark Twitchell, a convicted murderer who used one of the most popular dating sites around to lure his victims to an empty garage, where he hoped to satisfy his lust for blood. His first attempt went wrong, and his victim got away - the next was not so lucky.

Michael Gargiulo, a reasonably good looking man in his mid-40s, sits calmly staring forward listening intently to the back and forth debate that is taking place in front of him. His newly shaven head glistening slightly as cameras click incessantly in the courtroom, trying to capture the face of evil masquerading underneath his handsome mask. With three known murders under his belt; one attempted murder and, it would seem, even from his own very words, potentially more victims out there, getting to understand how Michael Gargiulo could have avoided arrest for some twenty years defies belief.

Hannah is returning home from work and rescues a young man she sees drowning in the lake. To her surprise, the man is Gideon, someone she has always pined for. He looks to have changed, expressing a desire to leave the Amish life and run away forever, taking her with him. This could be her chance to try the outside life-a life she's always wondered about.Will she leave with Gideon or will she stay on the Amish path?

An ANTHOLOGY of Christian life and romance stories...some will make you think, others will warm the heart...Ally has spent the past couple of years in Hollywood making "shady movies." Turning her life around, she returns back to her home town and faces the judgment of her family and former friends...as well as the apprehension of the man that she was once in love with. Will he be able to look beyond her past and see the woman that she has become?

An elderly Amish woman is brought to the hospital because of a stroke and her husband wants desperately to bring her home. She has lost her memory but he thinks of different ways for her to rekindle her memories of their life together, telling her about the good times of their past. This is all to no avail until the end when she remembers their first date and the memories come flooding back.

Christ Memorial Church was known as the safe haven for many at-risk youth. ..Andrew, Nicky and Serena all come from troubled backgrounds and call the place home. They are far from angels, however, as they use the church bulletins and the gossip mill to find out who is going on vacation or out of town...Then they break into the parishioner's homes and rob them blind...Things change one night when the threesome rob the home of Casey's grandparents. Andrew steals a rare necklace containing ancient tribal designs. He wears it around his neck for the night and when he wakes up he finds his entire body covered in tattoos similar to the designs on the necklace...Taking the item to a local pawn broker, they are told that the wearer of the necklace is subject to demonic possession...Andrew soon finds himself in a life-or-death struggle for his soul as he tries to break free of the necklace's curse.

Rebecca is a young Amish woman who is still grieving for her husband, killed over a year ago in an accident. She finds inspiration by caring for her young daughter and the recovery of her mother from cancer. She is heartbroken and doing her best to raise her daughter who is holding back her pain just like she is...As the years go by, the question remains...Will she find love & happiness again?