suspense fiction

"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son"-- Provided by publisher.

Patrick Cusimano and his brother, Mike, become the pariahs of their town after their father kills a boy while driving drunk, seemingly attracting people with troubled pasts to themselves--like Caro, Mike's girlfriend, and Layla Elshere, a goth teenager whose friendship Patrick distrusts, as well as Layla's sister Verna. Toxic relationships lead them all to a crisis of friendship and trust.

When fourteen-year-old Marley Willits runs away, her parents Rachel and Paul launch a social media campaign to locate her and convince her to come home, but the public exposure widens the cracks in Rachel and Paul's already tenuous marriage.

Jessica Farris signs up for an anonymous psychological study on ethics and morality done by the mysterious Dr. Shields. The sessions turn into intense outings where Jessica is told what to wear and how to act, and she fears Dr. Shields knows a secret from her past that she's hiding. Before Jessica realizes it, she has become trapped in a web of deceit, jealousy, and deadly obsession.

When Shelby and her friend Gina take a summer road trip after high school graduation in 1981, they're goals include getting to California to reunite with Shelby's mother who left her years before, finding Gina's wayward boyfriend, and returning home in time to start college in the fall. But their plans get derailed when the girls pick up a hitchhiker who calls herself Candy Cane. Now their only goal is to survive.

Toby works as a publicist in an art gallery and comes from a well-to-do family. One night, he comes home to find two burglars who beat him nearly to death, leaving him with severe physical and mental trauma, including holes in his memory. After a hospital stay, and unable to live on his own anymore due to his disabilities, Toby moves in to Ivy House--the family estate--to recuperate and care for an uncle dying of brain cancer. One day, he finds a skull in an old Witch Elm, and the investigation into who the skull belongs to prompts a mystery that reaches back into Toby's childhood. But with his brain damage, spotty memory, and poor sense of self, he begins to question the events of his childhood that may have involved murder, and his current situation as a victim of violent crime.

Features 20 short stories written by Stephen King. Each includes a passage explaining how he came to write the story.

His body twisted by scoliosis and his brain prone to seizures, Jonah Everett feels cursed and doomed to a loveless life, especially when Stormi, his best friend whom he has loved since childhood, seems destined to leave their small town. However, Stormi has premonitions, and everything she sees is telling her to leave town before disaster strikes. Jonah is surprised when Stormi asks him for help, and the two friends discover a dark mystery their small town has been hiding for years.

When a scholarship girl and a wealthy classmate become friends, their bond is tested when a handsome young teacher separately influences the girls in order to further his less-than-admirable interests.

Washed up teen TV star Liv Hendricks is forced back into the spotlight fifteen years after she left Hollywood when she starts a new web series to stave off her growing poverty. She becomes a real-life private detective and chronicles her adventures. One day, a mysterious donor turns her onto a case of missing girls, which makes Liv Hendricks reflect on her own missing sister who disappeared after a Hollywood party years ago, and at which Liv barely escaped with her life. Liv begins to realize that the new case might be the culprit looking to finish what they started. Her show is a raging success, and the audience watches as Liv investigates a case that may kill her.