Thriller/Mystery

The Widow’s Curse
Sonia Rompoti
Category
Trigger Warnings
Grief, emotional trauma, references to suicide.
Salome never expected widowhood to feel like this—isolating, haunted, and filled with unanswered questions. Returning to her home, Willow’s End, she is forced to confront the stages of grief. But when strange occurrences blur the line between memory and reality, she realizes that moving forward may be the hardest battle yet. Set against a haunting Halloween backdrop, The Widow’s Curse is a gripping story of love, loss, and the strength it takes to begin again.

Who is M?
Lauren Stevens
Category
Trigger Warnings
no trigger warnings
Esme Dalton moved from city life in Washington to a cottage in Mapleville, Tennessee. She was trying to get away from her past. When her past starts stalking her, she has no choice, but to ask the police for help. A family secret, murdered women, and a missing woman are uncovered in this mystery chase to find out, Who is M?

Sleep Tight
Lauren Stevens
Category
Trigger Warnings
no trigger warnings
This is the second installment of the psychological thriller with the Dreamdom company. Join Addie, Sara, Bitty, and Kit as the mystery unfolds. The Nightmares Department is in its beginning stages, but Addie and Sara still aren’t safe while they sleep. Someone is still pulling the imaginary strings of their Dreamdom accounts. Read if you dare the new made nightmares the employees create, as you try to connect the invincible dots behind the nightmares forced on the two best friends.

Wide Awake
Lauren Stevens
Category
Trigger Warnings
no trigger warnings
The story creates a sense of mystery and suspense as employees navigate through their daily lives while dealing with disturbing occurrences. Dreamdom: A company that develops and authorizes the purchase of Dreams in the year 2125 has a new President Kit. As he began expanding his company, he developed a new department that was supposed to be strictly research. Someone has gotten impatient while waiting for approval for cultivating dreams in the Nightmare Department.

And Let Time Stand, Still – The Elemental Pentology: Five
Ariadne Pautina
Category
Trigger Warnings
Alcohol use; blood and gore; epidemics; explicit content; family conflict; infidelity; manipulation; mass deaths / murder; physical abuse / assault; pregnancy / birth; sex; torture; violence; war
Zoya Iskralin is testing the boundaries of discovery. Testing how humans investigate cruelty and if her reckless games would be exposed. With increasing threats, Zoya is called home; her skills needed to assist her sisters, to protect the Compound, and to save the world. Katya’s endgame jeopardised by devastating loss. Will Katya’s sisters forgive her, once the truth is revealed?

Sempiternal – The Elemental Pentology: Four
Ariadne Pautina
Category
Trigger Warnings
Alcohol use; blood and gore; drowning; epidemics; explicit content; infidelity; manipulation; mass deaths / murder; physical abuse / assault; pregnancy / birth; sex; torture; violence
Calina Iskralin is searching for evidence of the past. Searching for means to repair a broken world. With the release of a deadly virus, Calina must make a world-changing decision. A horrific sacrifice which will fuel the division between the two factions. Both sides harbouring lies and manipulating perception to gain advantage. The alliance devastated by loss, with war’s arrival bringing potential annihilation.

Torrefy – The Elemental Pentology: Three
Ariadne Pautina
Category
Trigger Warnings
Abuse / abusive relationship; alcohol use; blood and gore; explicit content; fire; infidelity; manipulation; mass deaths / murder; physical abuse / assault; sex; suicide; torture; violence; witchcraft
Levka Iskralin is seeking the source of a disturbance. To discover who is trying to bring forward the Goddess Katalecazo. To eradicate the potential for the truth of the Goddess being revealed, Levka must dismantle a coven, while also protecting her own identity. All while continuing to understand what impact the erasure of Katalecazo’s influence has had on the world. A world moving even closer to war.

Lacrymosa – The Elemental Pentology: Two
Ariadne Pautina
Category
Trigger Warnings
Abortion; abuse / abusive relationship; alcohol use; blood and gore; diets / eating disorders; drowning; infertility; infidelity; manipulation; mass deaths / murder; physical abuse / assault; sex; sexual abuse / assault; suicide; torture; violence
Talya Iskralin believes she is rebalancing humanity. She seeks out those who have caused harm to others and takes revenge on their behalf. While taking these actions, she sets in motion consequences which will impact those she loves. Not only will her actions increase the potential for war, but she had put her family in peril.

Alabaster – The Elemental Pentology: One
Ariadne Pautina
Category
Trigger Warnings
Adoption; alcohol use; blood and gore; explicit content; gambling; manipulation; mass deaths / murder; physical assault; sex; suicide; torture; violence
Katya Iskralin has returned for revenge. She is fighting alone and must act without betraying her true self, her location, or the secrets hidden, sealed deep in her soul. Old enemies and newer threats pose a risk to the very world itself, with an old God believing Katya has returned for war.

Shadow’s Light
Sylvie Helstaff
Category
Trigger Warnings
adult content, explicit sexual situations, stalking, discussion of past domestic violence, description of panic attacks/ptsd, and violence
Ghosts and creatures never scared Zori, not when she’s seen what monsters humans can be. So when she bought a house with a reputation more haunted than her nightmares, she wasn’t worried about who or what came with it. When the strange new human moved into his house, the Shadow wanted her gone, the same as all the rest. But when he sees how haunted she already is, he can’t but want to know why. Two very unlikely housemates who just might hold the keys to setting each other free.
