Showing results for "Afterlife" in Thriller & Suspense

The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosion - a thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave. He wakes without a scratch. The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No planes cross the sky. He's relieved to spot other people - until he sees they're carrying machetes.

Being faced with an uncertain future is nothing new for Ari, not when you lived each day under the control of a demonic cult. But now Ari lives with a new enemy and one she can no longer run from...her past. But soon she will discover that even her past can cling to their future and hold it captive in the form of a curse. So, with a murderer lurking in the shadows of their past and an Angel on the hunt, a killer is not the only thing out there for Vincent to find.

College professor Stephen Barlow needs cash. Badly. He puts his skepticism aside and signs on to a paranormal research organization in the hopes of scoring a fat bonus. Enter Chaythe Asylum: a long-shuttered and controversial institution where patients were allegedly subjected to unethical experiments. Stephen deems the old building, closed in 1989 after a series of grisly murders, as good a place as any to explore the possibility of the supernatural, and arranges to take a tour with his students. But it turns out that the asylum is not as abandoned as it seems. There is something sinister in the building.

Professor Stephen Barlow is no longer a skeptic. Having faced the horrors of Chaythe Asylum, he turns his attention to the man responsible for the Third Ward Incident - the enigmatic Dr. Corvine - in the hopes of finding answers to his many questions. But some things, he soon learns, are better left lost to history. Traveling to a remote cabin in Michigan in search of the doctor and his research, Stephen finds himself descending deeper into a world of terror and madness.

Magpie Beach is a quiet seaside town – full of small-town prejudices and small-town cliques. Meg, Rosemary and Lily are all outsiders. Meg and Lily because they came to Magpie Beach to escape their former lives, Rosemary because her upbringing was the subject of much local gossip and upturned noses. The three women come together as friends, partly because their homes are so close together on the outskirts of town – and partly because their neighbors treat them with such suspicion. When Jessie Else goes missing – it's easy to see why this small band of outcasts are first on the list of suspect.

Beyond, Book 1: Meghan is 16 when she dies. She wakes up on a flying steamboat on her way to a school run by Angels in a white marble castle. On the boat, she meets Mick, who has been dead for more than a hundred years but still looks like a teenager. He helps her past the difficult beginning at the new school in a new world filled with magic. Serenity, Book 2: It is Meghan’s second year at The Academy. While trying to help and care for Jason on earth, she struggles to keep up in school, where they this year will learn both to ride Pegasus and fly through severe storms.

Between her regular job in Afterlife Arrivals, training for her second job with IA, her community service on The Bus of Death, GA meetings, taking care of her housemates, and every other ghostly commitment in between, Bridget Sway is already stretched pretty thin. Then, her best friend, Sabrina, drops a bombshell. Sabrina thinks she was murdered. And, in the afterlife, murdered dead people usually turn into homicidal maniac dead people. Despite that, Sabrina thinks if they can work out who killed her, then she might be able to get the closure she needs.

Alterlife: The chance of a lifetime...To live in a thrilling world of adventure...One with endless possibilities. Down on his luck and with his back against a wall, John Crussel would do anything to provide for his family. Even rob a bank out of desperation. But when he hears of how he can make money in a virtual reality video game called Alterlife, he walks away from the robbery and decides to give it a shot. Couldn't be harder than robbing a bank, could it? John's world is about to change as he finds that Alterlife is easier than it seems.

The door has been opened. It's already too late. The hunt is on for the thing that escaped from Chaythe Asylum. A life hangs in the balance. Dark plots set in motion more than thirty years ago wind to a close in this final, terrifying volume. Will Stephen Barlow intervene in time to spare the world the horrors of the Occupant?

Ein Scharfschütze versetzt Chicago in Panik: Achtzehn Menschen hat er heimtückisch erschossen. FBI-Agent Will Brody und seine Vorgesetzte Claire McCoy brennen darauf, den Killer zu überführen. Dann gerät Will selbst in einen Hinterhalt. Eine tödliche Explosion zerfetzt die Luft, tausende Glassplitter bohren sich in seinen Körper. Doch er wacht auf, ohne jeglichen Kratzer. Seine Leute sind verschwunden. Er ist allein. Um ihn herum liegt Chicago im Dunkeln. Willkommen im Jenseits.

A town awakens to discover that Rachel Turner and her son, Evan, were brutally murdered during the night. Later, Danny Turner is found, having taken his own life. Rachel's closest friend, Carolyn Bianci, sinks into depression, while her husband, Mitch, attempts to uncover the facts of the crime. They encounter Joanna Larson, who possesses extraordinary spiritual gifts. Through Joanna, the events that took place the night of the murders are unveiled. Inspired by true events, The Ravine is a story of faith and - even for the seemingly unredeemable.

Angela is living in a world of monsters. It has been three weeks since the infection started to spread and things are getting worse. She is cut off from or abandoned by everyone she knows. There is one clue that may lead Angela to her family, but the collapse of the world as she understands it and the constant assault of the ghouls who occupy her new life are forcing her down a darker path.

Do you ever wonder what your dogs are thinking? How they feel? What they’re dreaming about as they run, whimper, bark, and growl in their sleep? Who or what they’re playing with when they romp around all by themselves? What they’re looking at when all you see is a blank wall or an empty doorway? Will we see them again after they’ve gone? What if they wrote and sent you a story from the great beyond? This Dog’s Afterlife answers those questions.

After Life is the second audiobook in the Raney/Daye Investigation series following a skeptical retired police detective, Nate Raney, who denies his near-death experience, and an anthropology professor, Dr. Jennifer Daye, who moonlights as a parapsychologist. They team up to apply their expertise to cases with a paranormal twist.

There is nothing cake can't solve. Not. One. Thing. Except, perhaps, the escape of a crazy homicidal ex-ward of Bridget Sway's handsome parole officer. Since Bridget has taken the ex-ward's place in the group home, and in the handsome parole officer's roster, it's likely she's a target for Crazy Katie's homicidal rage. When the bodies start dropping, what does Bridget do? Simple. She lets best friend, and ex-PI, Sabrina talk her into a "straightforward" evade and capture mission so they can hand the murderer over to the police and life can go back to normal. Yeah. Foolproof plan.

Bridget's afterlife has finally settled down into a nice, safe, dead-body-free rhythm. And she couldn't be more discontent. And then someone starts murdering livies...with a scythe. Feeling partially responsible, Bridget jumps into the investigation with both feet, her best friend, Sabrina, and all of her housemates in tow. But, as crazy as it sounds, finding a killer isn't Bridget's biggest concern. Her biggest concern is how will she be able to survive the mundanity of the afterlife once the investigation is over.

Erica Stone has just graduated from college and is heading to medical school in the fall. Everything is going according to plan, until a dream vacation with her two best friends turns into a nightmare. Left with no other option, she is forced to put her trust in a mysterious man who has secrets of his own. Together, they work to uncover the sinister plot that has changed their lives...but can they stay alive long enough to expose the truth?

Meghan’s training at the academy is coming to an end. Everything is going great as she comes closer to graduation. She is engaged to be married, and the wedding is near, until she hears some disturbing news that makes her rethink her future. In class, the students are learning to catch dreams and fly with the speed of light. Meghan soon discovers her special talents and that she is much stronger than she thought. But unfortunately, that doesn’t help her when she faces the truth about her own death, which will be revealed to her at the end of the year.

Meghan is pregnant and about to get married, but something is not right between her and Mick. She is hoping that the marriage and a baby on the way will help them to overcome their problems, but the past keeps haunting her, and now she fears that it might be too late. To make things worse Jason keeps showing up in her life, and Meghan finds it harder and harder to fight her feelings for him. And what about Meghan's empty pages in her Book of Life? Will she finally get the answers she has been searching for?

Five years ago, Nathan’s world came crashing down. The witness protection program stole the woman he loved, and now, he’s lost everything - including hope that she’s still alive. His security job is a daily reminder of the girl he failed to protect, dragging him deeper into despair. Forced to assume the identity of a dead girl, Caitlin struggles to rise from the ruins of the life she lost.