In the 1970s, the East Area Rapist terrorised California by committing 50 rapes. His crimes had escalated from peeping to burglary until he began threatening women, tying them up and attacking them. They escalated again when he chose victims whose male partners were present. Later, after his crimes took a deadlier turn when he murdered twelve people, he was known as the Original Night Stalker. McNamara coins her own name for him, The Golden State Killer. Putting together decades of history in a readable, easy […]
Crash into you
Scott Burroughs, a painter living in Martha’s Vineyard, takes a last minute seat on a private plane, only to have it crash into the sea 16 minutes after take off. He emerges from the depths to hear a child’s cry. Calling on all his strength (and experience as a swimmer) he manages to get the child and himself through miles of churning water to land. They are the only survivors. The little boy, JJ, is the son of a wealthy media mogul, David Bateman. His […]
Here be monsters (and angels)
Karou lives in two worlds. In one she is an art student living in Prague, set apart by her blue hair and tattoos. In the other she works with the chimaera, creatures that are a cross between different animals and sometimes human. For Brimstone, the chimaera who raised her, she collects teeth. These are turned into wishes, and other powerful magic, but she does not know their main use. There are doorways to this other world all over Earth, and this makes her teeth gathering […]
Escaping is only half the battle
Skylar Evans is getting out of her crappy small town if it kills her. She’s escaped the typical life of teen mother working at the fast food joint, in part thanks to the pact with one of her best friends – that neither of them can be distracted by romance. Now she has a full scholarship to art school waiting for her, she just has to make it through one more summer. But then her mother loses her job and shacks up with a shady […]