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Rose McFarland is a trained killer—a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a  secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes,  a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen  years before. Her supervisors know that she spent two years in a  rehabilitative facility, healing and learning to cope with the emotional  trauma of the fire. But no one knows about the visions that drove her  there, angry spirits that consumed her childhood, alienated her from her  family and made her doubt her own sanity—the Whispers. 

When Charlie Akers, a half-brother she never knew, ends up on the  wrong side of Rose’s rifle, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events  that puts her family in the middle of increasingly dangerous paranormal  visitations. Charlie won’t stay dead, and soon ghosts from Rose’s past  are creeping back into her life. People she’s killed in the line of  duty, family she thought long buried, every one of them under the  influence of Rose’s greatest fear, the Whispers themselves. 

As the walls between our world and the world of the dead grow thin,  Rose will have to face her old nightmares to stop the Whispers from  breaking free. If she can’t, it won’t just be Memphis that falls to the  dead—there will be no safe place left on earth for the living.

 HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER?

While driving through the mountains of West Virginia during  a late-night snowstorm, a recently divorced woman experiences bizarre  electrical problems, leaving her with little choice but to place her  trust with a charismatic truck driver. But when an unexplainable  creature with haunting red eyes gets between them, she is forced to make  one of the toughest decisions of her life. Will she abandon the  stranger who kept her safe—or will she climb down below, where reality  has shapeshifted into a living nightmare?

 Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world  that failed to protect them. But on a hellish night that marked the end  of their childhood, eldest brother Shawn died violently after being  dragged behind closed doors. Though the official finding was accidental  death, Nathan Lasco knows better, and has never forgiven their mother,  Stella.

Now two decades later, Stella promises to finally reveal the truth of  what happened on The Day of the Door. Accompanied by a paranormal  investigative team, the Lasco family comes together one final time, but  no one is prepared for the revelations waiting for them on the third  floor.

A never-ending storm rages, tossing a dark  and bottomless sea. Tentacled beasts reach from every direction, a  battle at every turn, but they’ve chosen the wrong target. Armed with  teeth and sharp weapons of her own, she’ll fight until there’s nothing  left, and then she’ll pick herself up and fight again. For this is what  we do.

Laurel Hightower, author of Below and Crossroads,  delivers the blow that shatters the glass ceiling into twenty deadly  shards-each reflecting horrors faced by women. Unwelcomed advances from  dangerous men. The unbearable weight of motherhood. A goddess pushed to  her limits. The inescapable responsibilities of being a caretaker, even  beyond the grave.

Dive in for Hightower’s most beloved short  stories, all brought together in one collection which includes five  brand new tales. Navigate the stormy waters of womanhood with caution as  you are about to experience the horrors that every woman knows.

After the loss of her husband under mysterious circumstances, former  detective Cam Ambrose learns how little she truly knew him. Reeling with  the grief of her loss and the realization that the man she loved was a  stranger, she must learn how to keep her young daughter safe from a  world of the supernatural she never knew existed. With the help of her  best friend Dimi and reclusive neighbor Eric Morgan, she sets out to  solve a decades-old mystery entangling the machinations of an obsessed  killer, her husband’s mistress, and a series of deadly hauntings. 

Join three of horror’s finest storytellers on a journey through the dark heart of Appalachia…  

SPIRIT COVEN by Laurel Hightower: For generations, Jude and her coven of  witches have co-existed peacefully with the citizens of Arnett,  providing them with remedies and top shelf bourbon, especially valued  during the draconian days of Prohibition. But when too many townsfolk go  missing and dead, trust is broken and the witches find themselves on  shaky ground, facing threats from frightened families, from the mountain  they protect, and the very magic they steward. 

The sound of the whistle that split Patricia’s life in two still  haunts her two decades later, its echoes leaving their indelible stamp  on everything she does. The rift caused by her father’s unsolved death  haunts her, pushing her to ever more dangerous attempts to put his  memory to rest. Breaking into mausoleums in the dead of night isn’t how  she pictured her life, but she’ll do almost anything to know what  happened.

When a group of amateur cryptid hunters shows up in her small town,  Trish doesn’t hesitate to take what might be her only chance to find  answers, even if they’re searching in the last place she should be. A  sealed, abandoned mine; tight underground passages filled with unseen  creatures, and impenetrable darkness await the crew, but it’s the only  path forward, and Trish won’t leave her father’s legacy buried, delving  ever deeper into danger to where that whistle still moans.

 How far would you go to bring back someone you love?

When Chris's son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated.  The walls of grief close in on Chris's life until, one day, a small cut  on her finger changes everything.

A drop of blood falls from Chris's hand onto her son's roadside  memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside  her window. Only, is it really her son's ghost, or is it something  else—something evil?

Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again.