Wendy Saunders

Mercy is a sleepy town in Massachusetts. According to the locals it was founded as a safe haven by the survivors of the Salem witch trials. Olivia West hadn't set foot in Mercy since the night her Father murdered her mother and had no intention of ever returning despite being a direct descendant of one of the original founders, but when she unexpectedly inherits a house by the lake she finds she has no choice. The closer she gets to the town the more she can feel a strange pull, calling to her blood...someone or something wants her to come home. When the bodies of missing residents are discovered in the woods near her house, it becomes clear there's a killer on the loose who seems to have taken an unhealthy interest in Olivia. What is even more disturbing is that each victim is marked with some kind of supernatural brand. To make matters worse it appears that the murders are almost identical to a spate of killings twenty years earlier which mysteriously stopped after her father's arrest. Theodore Beckett is a young witch finder from seventeenth century Salem who has been hiding a huge secret from his strict Puritan family. He has dreams, strange visions which have an alarming tendency to come true. But when he finds himself pulled abruptly through time by a mysterious stranger to be dropped in the middle of twenty first century Mercy, Theo realises the woman he has been sent there to help is the woman he has seen in his dreams all his life. Olivia and Theo must find a way to trust each other when they are suddenly thrown together into a world of murder and magic. It becomes clear there is something dark stirring in the woods and the murders are only just the beginning. It is all connected like a giant web spun from centuries of lies, murders and magic and it all keeps coming back to her family at the heart of it. Olivia can no longer ignore her past but must discover her family's true legacy starting with what really happened the night her mother died. Together Olivia and Theo must stop a murderer and uncover her family's oldest and darkest secret, to prevent a demon from rising...and time is running out.

Mercy

Cassandra hasn't seen her sister since the night their wealthy, prominent father died from a massive heart attack. One by one, everyone who was in her home that night begin to die under suspicious circumstances and it becomes a race against time to uncover the truth, before she becomes the next victim.

Tangled Web

TWISTED LIES - The Carter Legacy #2 Chloe Carter has spent the last twenty years as a ghost, hiding in the shadows, letting the world believe she was dead and all the while she was running from the nightmares of her childhood.Now finally able to re-join the living once again and with her sister Cassandra back in her life, she desperately wants to leave her past firmly behind her. However, they have two half-sisters, one very much dead and one possibly a psychopath. Things were not looking up.Starting with Parker Evans, a man she should want absolutely nothing to do with, a man whose own father caused her family nothing but pain. However, Parker refuses to be ignored and however much she wants to loathe him, they need each other. They both have secrets, a legacy of misery left by their fathers and if they ever want to be free, together they must uncover the truth.When the body of a little girl is accidentally unearthed, they find themselves following a trail of cold case murders leading back decades and once they start digging they find something far more dark and sinister than they could've possibly imagined. VISIT WWW.CYANIDEPUBLISHING.COM AND DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE CRIME / MYSTERY STARTER LIBRARY

Twisted Lies

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Olivia has been left reeling from one shock after another. Betrayed by her family and still trying to piece together the broken fragments of her life. She and Theo must also try to figure out how to stop Nathaniel, the demon from seventeenth century Salem, who has been let loose on the quiet unsuspecting town of Mercy. As if that's not enough the town is suddenly overwhelmed by the spirits of the dead. Not just one or two but hundreds. When the vengeful spirit of a wronged man and the soul of a murdered girl spread chaos through the town, Olivia and Theo must find a way to force all the spirits back to the other side and close the door to the otherworld. The problem is the door was opened on purpose and if Olivia and Theo can't figure out how and why it might just remain open permanently.

The Ferryman

Ava Cortez has always felt adrift in the world, as the only daughter of a flower child she'd spent her entire childhood drifting from town to town, dreaming of a normal life... dreaming of a home to call her own...a place to belong.When her mother passes away, Ava is shocked to discover not only that her mother had a significant amount of money which she concealed from her but also an old rambling Victorian house situated on the small island of Midnight, off the coast of Maine. The place where her mother was born.Unable to contain her curiosity Ava sets out to discover her family history and the past her mother was obviously running from, but what started out as a curiosity soon begins to consume her, the more secrets she uncovers, the more she realizes how closely entwined her family is with the dark history of the island itself. With the help of a local man named Kelley Ryan she delves deeper into the past leading her back to one fateful night in 1919, to the worst storm on record and the sudden disappearance of dozens of children. The more they dig into the history of the house, the more they come to realize that sometimes the deepest foundations hide the darkest secrets.

The Clockwork House

A Collection of Short Stories6.1 Daughter of FireLife in Mercy begins to settle down after the momentous events the night the Hell Book revealed itself. Olivia and Theo still concerned for their missing friend Sam attempt to come to terms with their new reality. When the birth of Olivia and Theo's children bring some unexpected visitors once again to Mercy, it becomes clear to them that finding the Hell Book was only just the beginning and that everything is far from over.6.2 The Salted BoneJackson Murphy didn't want much from life, just to raise his adopted son, Miller and run the pub he loved so much in peace. Okay, so maybe he would add his best friend and long-time employee Shelley to that list, but some things were not meant to be. That is until, strange things start happening. When once again spirits begin flooding into his pub and setting up residence, Jackson suddenly finds himself the owner of the most haunted pub in North America, worse still, he has an reporter staying on one of the guest rooms above the pub and no way to hide all the dead residents. Before he knows it, Jackson is trying to juggle, the reporter, a crazy British medium, his son's 1st birthday party and his growing feelings for his best friend, proving once again that life in Mercy is never dull.6.3 StorytellerAfter spending the summer on a small Caribbean island with the Goddess Calypso, Jake and Roni return home to Mercy. Obsessed with the idea of tracing her own family history, Roni realizes that her family do in fact have ties to Mercy and that it was no accident that she was offered the job at the museum. When bodies start dropping and strange killings begin, Jake and Roni discover there is a new supernatural creature in Mercy, one who has the ability to turn fiction into reality.Together they must discover the identity of the Storyteller before they are pulled inside a story themselves, one with fatal consequences.

A Little Town Called Mercy

Chloe Carter has spent the last twenty years as a ghost, hiding in the shadows, letting the world believe she was dead and all the while she was running from the nightmares of her childhood. Now finally able to re-join the living once again and with her sister Cassandra back in her life, she desperately wants to leave her past firmly behind her. However, they have two half-sisters, one very much dead and one possibly a psychopath. Things were not looking up. Starting with Parker Evans, a man she should want absolutely nothing to do with, a man whose own father caused her family nothing but pain. However, Parker refuses to be ignored and however much she wants to loathe him, they need each other. They both have secrets, a legacy of misery left by their fathers and if they ever want to be free, together they must uncover the truth. When the body of a little girl is accidentally unearthed, they find themselves following a trail of cold case murders leading back decades and once they start digging they find something far more dark and sinister than they could've possibly imagined.

Scarlett had hidden successfully for more years than she cared to admit. Hunted for a crime she did not commit and with a price on her head she has survived this long because she didn't allow anyone to get too close. She'd been betrayed before, a pain she never wanted to experience again. But she is about to learn the hard way that fate is a fickle and capricious creature. When Sam, the one man she never thought she'd never see again, lands in her lap with a serious case of amnesia and the message 'find Olivia' scrawled across his arm, she finds herself facing the past she tried so hard to run from.Even knowing its a bad idea she reluctantly agrees to help him recover his memories and find the mysterious 'Olivia' so that she can send him on his way with a clear conscience, sounds so simple, right? There's just one problem. Sam's the one who betrayed her, only he has no memory of those events at all. Suddenly everything isn't so black and white and the more of Sam's memories they recover the more she questions her own memories of those dark days.Pursued by Angels and Demons alike as they tried to piece back together Sam's damaged mind, Scarlett finds the lines blurring. Unable to tell friend from foe, she has no idea who to trust with her life and Sam's, but the closer they get to the answers the more she comes to realize that the one person she needs the most is the one who hurt her in the worst way.When her enemies begin to close in she is faced with a choice, save herself or risk everything for the man who betrayed her, knowing that it may cost her her life.

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