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Bad Blood

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 384 pages

When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful--and more dangerous--than anything the Naturals have faced so far. As Cassie and the team work to uncov

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The Special Ones

Em Bailey · 301 pages

"When four young people are taken against their will to become part of a cult, they are worshiped by their followers and become lost in their new reality--but what happens if they rebel against the one holding them captive?"--

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The Face on the Milk Carton

Caroline B. Cooney · 188 pages

After recognizing the photo of the little girl listed as missing on the milk carton, 15-year-old Janie Johnson’s life is forever changed as she struggles to balance loyalty with doing what is right.

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Blood Test

Jonathan Kellerman · 320 pages

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This Present Darkness

Frank E. Peretti · 508 pages

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayerful, hardworking pastor begin to investigate mysterious events, they suddenly find themse

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Say You're Sorry

Karen Rose · 614 pages

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True Courage

Dee Henderson · 333 pages

Someone snatched his cousin’s wife and son. FBI agent Luke Falcon is searching for a kidnapper and sorting out the crime. He’s afraid it’s the work of a stalker. He’s afraid they’re already dead. And he’ll do anything required to get them back alive…he didn’t plan on falling in love with the only witness.

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Mine

Robert McCammon · 468 pages

Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade-a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen-Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell's only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage. The sixties are long gone, but Mary i

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Under the Beetle's Cellar

Mary Willis Walker · 384 pages

Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his young charges have been held beneath the ground of the group's highly fortified compound for forty-six days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Morde

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Stealing Jenny

Ellen Gable · 208 pages

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Glow

Amy Kathleen Ryan

**If a violent battle destroyed the only world you’ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back.** The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Ea

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Sweet Justice

Christy Reece · 390 pages

An operative with the elite Last Chance Rescue organization, former FBI agent Honor Stone goes undercover to capture a maniacal cult leader who is kidnapping young women from college campuses--an assignment that leads her to a man she has never been able to forget.

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Blaze

Joan Swan · 375 pages

"Ever since FBI agent Keira O'Shay started tracking a young boy named Mateo, she's felt a connection even her empathic abilities can't explain. She needs to save Mateo from the cult leader holding him hostage. Nothing can interfere with that--not even the reappearance of Luke Ransom, the hot-as-hell fire captain she's regretted walking out on for three long years. Losing Keira left Luke vulnerable

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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

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Winterkill

C.J. Box · 372 pages

After his district supervisor is murdered in the wilderness, Joe Pickett finds himself in the middle of an increasingly bloody confrontation between government agents and members of a survivalist compound.

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God Is a Bullet

Boston Teran · 306 pages

From Publishers Weekly Strung-out on junk and tattooed with the dates of helter-skelter-style deaths they've caused, the kids who walk "The Left-Handed Path" talk Satanic talk and spread terror through the very Christian Southern California town of Clay. This tautly paced and harrowing debut thriller begins with the cult's murder of desk cop Bob Hightower's ex-wife and her husband, and the kidnap

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The Awakening

Lisa M. Lilly · 330 pages

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Hazardous Duty

Betsy Brannon Green · 293 pages

Savannah McLaughlin is running a little late. Those extra few minutes could mean she may never see her daughter again. The only clue Savannah and the police have to six-year-old Caroline's disappearance is a note with a cryptic verse of scripture. With no signs of progress, Savannah is desperate enough to call the one man she knows can help -- the one man who absolutely despises her.

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Night Film

Marisha Pessl · 624 pages

Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he lo

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Nowhere to Turn

Lynette Eason · 385 pages

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Tidewater Inn

Colleen Coble · 312 pages

Libby inherits an old hotel from a father she'd never met. Although she wants to restore it, she can't afford the upkeep and things just keep getting worse. Her newfound brother and sister are convinced she's going to steal their birthright and when her business partner is kidnapped, Libby is suspected of the crime. She must prove her innocence or lose everything.

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The Innocent

Taylor Stevens · 352 pages

"Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her. Now, those who've searched the longest know where to find her. They are childhood

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The First Prophet

Kay Hooper

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The Sleeping Doll

Jeffery Deaver · 591 pages

California Bureau of Investigation interrogator and body language expert Kathryn Dance works to recapture a dangerous escaped killer with the help of three victims from his former cult and the lone survivor from a family he slaughtered.

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