When a sassy psychologist meets a gruff FBI agent, they team up to try and solve the worst serial murders in decades – but even with all their talent combined they may be outmatched.

Dr. Percy Shatter is the best forensic, behavioral, and clinical psychologist around, which probably says more about her than she ever could herself. She’s afraid of almost nothing in the real world, especially after personally interviewing just about every living serial killer and studying all the rest. She’s faced evil and come out the other side with knowledge, analysis, and a few scars. Plus she can drink anyone under the table.

Even though he’s a foot taller than her, Percy stands her ground with Riley Rankin, toe-to-toe, when she meets him. He’s in the Violent Crimes unit of the Criminal Investigative Division with the FBI, and he’s got a fantastic solve rate. He’s taken down monsters so terrifying their existence never made it into public knowledge. He’s a star Special Agent because he follows the rules as close to the letter as anyone can. That is…until he meets Percy, who pushes his buttons. Suddenly he misses his old murder scenes with just blood and not so many metaphors.

Together Dr. Percy Shatter and Special Agent Riley Rankin are forced into a partnership after several brutally mutilated bodies, resembling the work of a notorious serial killer, are found. More concerning, the dead victims are found states apart at the same time – meaning they’re searching for more than one copycat. The mimicked serial killer has been in prison for years, and he’s not helping whoever’s doing this, so Percy and Riley are left at a loss. In the incredible stress of the situation, both partners end up at each other’s throats. Percy tries to solve her woes at the bottom of a bottle and Riley shuts down. All the while, there are killers out there planning their next elaborate and violent murders.

Can Riley help Percy wrangle her inner demons long enough to chase down the psychotic followers

A rebellious, yet heartwarming ghost story about a spirit boy enters the lives of a mother and her young son following the discovery of a photograph within the pages of a book found at a local village market. The indomitable entity wreaks fear and uncertainty in its quest to uncover an abhorrent crime.

As Mayor Oliver Slattery asks August Sloan, his Chief Investigator, “Why should I care about Paragraph Thirty-Eight?” Because one person’s trash is another person’s millions. In order to secure a sole city-wide solid waste franchise, Nutrino Waste regional manager Daniel Hendricks enlists City Commissioner Jordan Fowler, and City Contract/Procurement Director Glennis Saint John. She is a beautiful, ruthless, and brilliant assassin, who realizes the true value of Paragraph Thirty-Eight. With the aid of disgruntled City Attorney Marshall Hunter, Saint John devises a way via Paragraph Thirty-Eight to extract millions from the recently approved Franchise Agreement. The trouble with millions of dollars though is that there are then a million reasons to eliminate partners, and increase individual shares. A sub-plot concerns an upcoming civil trial in which the City is a defendant, and is integral in exposing the motivation for several characters’ actions.

Set during the holiday season, Paragraph Thirty-Eight is a fast-paced political thriller that numbs the senses, opens old wounds, tests the boundaries of trust, and revisits past atrocities. Some live, some die, and through Paragraph Thirty-Eight all are affected in ways unimagined. After reading Paragraph Thirty-Eight one realizes that it is a commentary on social justice, political avarice, arrogance, and the slim difference between sinner and saint.

When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.

Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for all of them.

It’s 1961 in Tennessee and the sheriff says Lucy Cutler stripped off her clothes to go swimming in the Caney River and was attacked by a horde of copperheads. But she was a modest lady, the water where her clothes were found is too swift for swimming, and copperheads aren’t water snakes. Deputy sheriff Johnny Lee Cole is investigating but he’s distracted by the pure country sweetness of a strange woman who grew up in a snake-handling church and is married to an ex-con who hates lawmen. Meanwhile other women get snakebitten and armed men demand he stop a bus carrying freedom riders on their way to the deep south—and they’ll do it if he won’t. Deputy Cole is game, but he can’t win ’em all.