Bøker av Jeff Rosenplot

The First Time You Open Your Eyes Is The Last Time You See.A lonely desert road. Two headlights pierce the darkness. 80s New Wave blasts through the open car windows; The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order, Jesus and Mary Chain. Evan has spent his life trying to forget his tortured past. But thirty years and 3,000 miles away, she waits. His one true love. His sister Cam.Evan created a new life, a new identity, and tried not to look back. But as the miles disappear below him, he races headlong toward his forbidden past. Toward the haunted and terrible and beautiful things he once did.By the time Cam was a teenager, she'd outgrown her younger brother Evan. Until a chance encounter changed everything. Cold, cruel, and unrepentant, Cam used her brother to regain some of what other boys had taken from her. The last thing she expected was to fall in love with him. She has spent her life waiting for him to return.Love never follows the rules. Especially this love.A dark and sexually-explosive exploration of the consequences of forbidden attraction, Our Perfect Flaws is a love story told by both Cam and Evan. Sometimes we fall in love with the one person we can't have.

A year after the events of The Dollmaker, disgraced former FBI behavioral science profiler Anne Burge is faced with the inevitability of her own dark history as Lily Randolph, the last of the Mailboxes, tracks her down and begins the hunt. Meanwhile, an old college friend reaches out to Anne about a young boy he believes may be a pure psychopath. The third and final installment of The Postman's Daughter series pushes Anne toward a decision that changes everything.

Solving A Murder Is No Laughing Matter.Everyone remembers Amanda Fehrenhold. Twenty years ago, the high school senior disappeared without a trace. Her dismembered body was discovered months later encased in concrete. Amanda's murder cast a shadow over her hometown and still remains unsolved two decades later.For Max Cassidy, neck-deep in her thirties and living back at home with her mother, life is excruciating chaos. Between her autistic daughter, feral twins, philandering ex-husband, a wackadoodle mother, plus the addition of an unexpected romantic relationship, there isn't much time for herself. Hiding in the bathroom while eating a full sleeve of cookies and listening to true crime podcasts is her only escape. Max's life is a steaming mess, but hey, it's her steaming mess. As the anniversary of the gruesome unsolved killing rolls around, Max announces that she is going to be the person to solve the murder of Amanda Fehrenhold. Using her Google stalking skills, crime podcast knowledge, and the reluctant help of her childhood friends, Maria and sidelined cop Mikey, she starts to unravel the mystery. What Max doesn't expect is that Amanda's life was a whole lot more complicated than anyone knew.As Max and her friends discover clues that were overlooked in the initial investigation, the unexpected truth about who killed Amanda Fehrenhold just might be the last thing Max ever learns.

We All Have A Past.Trauma is comforting. No matter how terrible our pain, its absence can be worse. We hide behind the pantomime of healing, but all we're really doing is feeding the thing that hurts us the most.When Mia met Sean, their connection was explosive. Sean's demons came from a bottle; Mia's came from a desperate need to be loved. Mia's desire for Sean blinded her to his cruelty until she couldn't look away anymore. She ran, but her past was never far behind. She spent years pretending to be someone she wasn't, all the while feeding the beast Sean had awakened.Sean's unexpected death brings Mia home and forces her to confront everything she's spent her life avoiding. Without the specter of Sean, Mia has nothing else to hide behind. Some things we show the world. Others, we hide so far down even we forget them. The truth lies in the shadowy places. At the edge of the world, at the edge of the map, here there be dragons.Here There Be Dragons is a dark and sexually-charged novel about grief, abuse, the comfort of trauma, and the terror of change.

The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning.The ice caps have melted. Coastlines are underwater. Billions are dead. The rest are dying. And the world hasn't seen rain in over a year. Those who have survived face a world without food, water, or power. It's been six months since the lights went out. You've buried your family in shallow graves. The United States has become a wasteland. Neighbors kill neighbors. Rampaging gangs pillage the empty landscape. But from the ashes of survival, small sparks of hope emerge. Not all the survivors have lost their humanity.Suddenly a familiar voice on the radio tells says they've got the power on. They have running water. And they're going to start over again in the Redemption Colony. The televangelist John Meadows has delivered hope. But admission to Redemption comes at a cost. As a ragtag group of survivors makes their way to Redemption, they learn that survival comes at a terrible price. The dead are the lucky ones.Water is a post-apocalyptic thrill ride and a vivid preview of the catastrophic effects of climate change that get worse every day.

When You Fall In Love, Nothing Can Keep You Apart.Leo Baxter was the boy who played the colors of the sounds he heard. Taken under the wing of famed Russian conductor and composer Abraham Deresofsky, Leo became a phenomenon. Abraham absorbed Leo into his life, his family, his world. But when Leo met Abraham's daughter Jusette, he knew he'd found his great love.The young prodigy was loved by everyone except Abraham's son, Yael. Leo became the son Abraham had always wanted, and Yael exacted his revenge. A terrible nightmare that forced Leo out of the family, and drove Jusette to madness.A dozen years later, Leo plays the colors of the sounds he hears for the New York commuters. Abraham's death prompts Leo to return to find his lost Jusette, and to discover the truth about what led her to madness.Intermezzo is a short novel about the beauty and pain of love and the toxic persistence of family secrets.

What Does Love Mean To You? Eight stories explore the pain and anguish and beauty of love.A Beautiful GirlAfter a disfiguring accident, a young woman learns what real beauty is.The FarmA billionaire uses his wealth and power to make the world a better place.The Last Lighthouse KeeperThe final manned lighthouse in the Great Lakes is set to become automated, but not if the last lighthouse keeper has anything to say about it. Hero WorshipA Hollywood legend who died too young has one last secret to reveal.The Golden HourAfter a devastating tornado, a man takes stock of everything he's lost.What Becomes A Girl MostA lonely bank teller dreams of her romantic possibilities.A Shot At RedemptionAfter the death of their greedy son, his elderly parents try to redeem his soul.Words For GoodnightA young father tucks his daughter into bed for the night.

Are You Afraid Of The Dark?The dark cousin to Midwestern Love Songs, Midwestern B Sides contains eight stories exploring the shadows. The 27 ClubEver wondered what's really behind the exclusive club of performers who mysteriously die when they're 27? Laying BlameThe woman next door who is being abused gets a helping hand from her neighbor. All In Your HeadAn AI experiment allows dreams to be recorded. But are they only dreams or something more?Four Days Of SnowTrapped in a blizzard, a student and her professor explore a dark sexual fantasy.Kill Or Be KilledA soldier returns home from combat to find that his small town has been overrun by the undead.The Undertaker's WifeAnnalee has always been a dutiful wife until she begins a torrid affair with Luis, a migrant worker, and their lives are forever changed. Lie DownAfter a lifetime of torment, a morbidly obese man takes his problems into his own hands.It's Easier Than You ThinkSometimes in order to keep the chaos at bay, you need to do the unthinkable. Don't worry. It's easier than you think.

Prey That Doesn't Fight Back Can't Hurt You.Anne Burge hunts serial killers. As the head of an FBI Behavioral Science team, she is the best at what she does. Her ability to track and find human predators is because of her father, a notorious serial killer nicknamed The Postman. For the first nine years of Anne's life, her father used her as bait to lure his victims. She saw how it was done firsthand. Anne has kept her dark past secret. Until now.In Florida, a series of gruesome killings are escalating. Nicknamed "Pussy Venom" on the internet, Anne's latest serial killer rapes and then injects snake venom into his victims' sexual organs. Death takes time, and the venom eliminates all trace evidence. A lucky break gives Anne and her team their first lead, but Anne is convinced that Venom doesn't make mistakes. As Venom's body count grows and accelerates, Anne begins to realize that these killings are connected to her own past and that she'll have to face her deepest fears to find the killer.Anne Burge is a woman set apart from the flow of everyday life. She's seen the faces of the monsters that walk among us. She knows that a part of her is the monster she hunts. As her tightly-controlled persona unravels, her true nature emerges.Fierce is the pulse-pounding and sexually-charged first installment of the Postman's Daughter series.

One Secret Changes EverythingThe Black Plague took his wife and young children. Painter Antoine de Rembule endured his passionless life until fate delivered inspiration in the form of Chloe. His stark and honest vision of his love for her reignited his creative passion and he painted again. His raw depictions of sex and beauty made him a target of the Catholic Church.Nicknamed the "Renaissance Pornographer", most of Rembule's paintings are vivid and explicit depictions of sex. But Rembule's work isn't exclusively carnal. One image, in particular, is the most haunting - a child's eyes staring desperately out of the painting, pleading for the end to suffering. The modern discovery of thirteen Rembule paintings hidden in a French abbey ignites a cultural firestorm. No human eyes have seen his paintings for 800 years. Until now. The Adler Art Museum in Boston is chosen to restore the heavily damaged work. Cate Bennett's career as an art restorer began at the Adler. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Cate began a passionate affair with fellow restorer Peter Dauphin. Their wild romance ended abruptly when Cate became pregnant with her husband's baby. Seventeen years later, Cate's marriage has ended and Peter is in charge of the restoration of the Rembule paintings. Despite their past, Peter knows Cate is the one person who can bring Rembule's vision back to life. As Cate exposes Rembule's terrifying and beautiful history layer by layer, she and Peter rekindle their own sexual passion. Rembule's paintings turn everything known about the Renaissance on its head. Cate's intimate connection to Rembule threatens to destroy her own life.Fueled by Rembule's erotic masterpieces and her own tortured past, Cate learns that creation always demands a sacrifice.

What Would You Do If You Were The Last Person?The end of the world started with the flu that came from Asia. They nicknamed it General Tsao. No one thought much of it. Within six months, everyone was dead. Except for fourteen-year-old Hannah Barton.Hannah buried her family in graves she dug in her backyard in Detroit. With nowhere left to go, she set off for Charleston, South Carolina, where her family had once vacationed.Hannah's trek to South Carolina takes her through the wild, terrifying, and empty landscape of America. Wild animals are everywhere, and the corpses of millions of dead human bodies become the thing of nightmares.The first year of Hannah's solitary life is a story of survival. With no one to help her, she alone must find the basic necessities to live. In the midst of the end, Hannah tries to make a new beginning.The First Year is a vivid first-person experience through Hannah's eyes as she learns what it's like to be the last person on earth.