A bad umpiring call ruins a pitcher's once-in-a-lifetime chance to make Major League Baseball history. Fans boo and sports talkers bray. But murder? FBI Special Agents Patti Moreland knows nothing about baseball, but she must uncover who's leaving behind dead bodies outside of stadiums in New York and New Jersey, and why each body comes with a note demanding the league commissioner reverse the call that ruined an ultra-rare perfect game, or more people die-including a player close to the investigation who's vanished and has less than 36 hours to live unless Moreland catches the madman first.
They don't distinguish between good and evil. They kill. South Carolina's ruthless after the Civil War. And when Sheriff's Deputy Noah Chandler finds seven Ku Klux Klansmen and two Northern soldiers massacred, he cannot imagine who would murder these two opposed forces. When a surviving Klansman babbles about wraiths, and is later murdered inside a jail cell, Noah realizes something sinister stalks his town. A freed slave who's trying to protect his farm from a merciless land baron can help unmask the killers. Soon, Noah must personally confront the things men must do to protect their loved ones from evil.
It has tormented European kids for centuries. Now America faces its wrath. Children vanish as a blizzard crushes New Jersey. All that remains are signs of destruction and bloody hoof prints in the snow. Seventeen-year-old Billy Schweitzer awakes December 5 feeling blue. Already feuding with his police chief father and older brother, Billy's crushed when his dream girl rejects him. When a creature infiltrates his town, Billy must overcome his own demons to learn why his supposedly innocent high school peers have been snatched, and how to save them from a famous saint's ruthless companion—that cannot be stopped.
A murdered child predator surfaces in a New Jersey bog. A vigilante slaughters deviants through states along Route 80 to California. FBI Special Agents Patti Moreland and Nick Redmond track Internet predators. Someone shoots Redmond, but he survives. Moreland hacks his laptop and decrypts a sexually charged chat transcript between Redmond and a teenager logged hours before his shooting. Moreland learns of the murders in other states and sees a connection to her partner. She can’t fathom Redmond being a predator, and knows of only one way to disprove it: find the killer.
Medieval maiden Beate, who's grieving over the mysterious evisceration of her friend, Gisela, must escape a Bavarian castle’s sadistic creatures. Standing in her way--beyond towering walls and crossbow-toting guards--are Saint Nicholas's demonic helper, Krampus, and Frau Perchta, a belly-slitting hag who prowls the countryside during First Night festivities to punish naughty teenagers. Beate wants out. Krampus and Frau Perchta want in, determined to breach the castle to snag their prey. Beate has no idea why these monsters want her, but must use her wits to save herself from horrors both human and inhuman--lest she wind up like Gisela.