Michael Koryta

Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.

Placed in witness protection in remote northern Maine, Leah risks exposing herself to the dangerous forces of her past when her homesick children run away. Witness to a gruesome crime, Nina Morgan-- now Leah Trenton-- is in a protected witness program. She has left behind husband and infant children and is alone and isolated as a guide along the banks of the Allagash River in Maine. In the wake of their father's untimely death, Leah's children are...

When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady--directly in the path of an approaching hurricane. But...

After he is hired by Alyssa Bradford to research the life of her 95-year-old billionaire father-in-law, Eric Shaw visits the man's hometown, where he discovers a restored hotel that has a checkered past--and a newly reawakened evil bent on revenge.

Presents a collection of seventeen tales from the horror, thriller, and dark fantasy genres composed by two, and in one case three, acclaimed writers who have never previously collaborated.