John Rector è un autore di bestseller i cui romanzi esplorano gli aspetti più oscuri della psicologia e della moralità umana. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una cruda onestà e da trame avvincenti che tengono i lettori con il fiato sospeso. Rector crea magistralmente atmosfere e personaggi le cui lotte interiori risuonano profondamente. Le sue opere esplorano temi come il senso di colpa, la redenzione e le complessità delle relazioni.
Dexter McCray is a farmer with a dark past that continues to haunt him. As a man struggling with alcoholism, he’s used to being looked at with pity and suspicion in his community. So, after waking from a blackout to discover the body of a teenage girl in the nearby cottonwood grove, he can't be entirely sure he's innocent. With no memory of the previous night, he sees no choice but to investigate the crime himself. Fortunately he’s not alone. He has some help…in the shape of the dead girl herself.
Trust becomes a fatal mistake in this shocking thriller by the bestselling author of The Ridge. Welcome to Beaumont Cove, a slowly decaying tourist town at the edge of the world, and the place where Maggie James's worst fears for her estranged twin sister, Lilly, have come true. Lilly is dead, and Maggie has arrived to identify her body. Lilly's husband, Mike, is in custody for her murder. With his long history of abuse, no one in town is surprised at the inevitable end to their stormy marriage, least of all Maggie. All she wants is to clean up her sister's affairs, see Mike punished, and get out of Beaumont Cove. With the help of the local sheriff, a retired private investigator, and a strange but friendly carnival psychic, Maggie begins to uncover the truth about what really happened to her sister. But the truth comes at a price, and soon Maggie finds herself walking a dark path toward the same deadly trap that killed Lilly. The more Maggie discovers about her sister's final days, the more she realizes that nothing is as it appears in this strange boardwalk town.
Jake Reese is an ordinary guy with an ordinary job, trying to block out the memory of his violent past by planning for the future with his new wife, Diane. But the past has a habit of refusing to stay buried.
Nate en Sara hebben na een moeilijke jeugd het geluk gevonden. In een wegrestaurant onderweg naar Reno, waar ze in het geheim willen trouwen, biedt een zieke man hun vijfhonderd dollar voor een lift. Ze stemmen toe, maar na uren in een steeds heviger sneeuwstorm wordt verder rijden onverantwoord. Ze stoppen bij een verlaten motel, waar ze tot hun afgrijzen ontdekken dat hun passagier is overleden. De verwarring is compleet wanneer blijkt dat de dode een koffertje met twee miljoen dollar bij zich draagt. Wat te doen? Nate en Sara willen best oprecht en eerlijk zijn, maar de verleiding om het geld te houden is gewoon te groot. Door die beslissing belanden ze al snel in een rampzalige draaikolk van geweld, hebzucht en verraad.
