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Lottie does not know what she is doing in a morgue or how she got there. One moment she was on a missionary trip and the next she's waking up finding herself a member of the undead. She has a whole period of time that cannot remember as she tries desperately to stave off her irrational thirst for blood. Armed with only a stake and a cross, she begins piecing back the last few days of her life, hell-bent on slaying the twisted vampires that made her this way.

Growing up in the Amish town, Rachel finally ventures out of the community. She finds herself a spectator when a fire breaks out and when she hears a crying baby inside, she leaps into action. But her heroic actions make her the target of a human trafficking ring that set the fire. Her only hope is the detective that left her Amish town when he became of age, all the while pining about Rachel, the beautiful young woman he left behind. The romance they once had reignites, but will the criminals who want Rachel dead destroy their future?

At nineteen years of age, Brittney Jane Dwyer developed an obsession with horror movies and television shows. Brittney has always a taste for violence and the darker side of life, but her family never noticed a lack of empathy. She grew up with a stable household and loving family. "She was a strong-willed, adventures, tom-boy growing up," says her mother Tonya Dwyer. During her high school years, she developed a close bond with a school friend named Shelby Lee Holmes, but she spent the majority of her time alone. Brittney isolated herself as a teenager and did not fit in with a popular crowd. Brittney seemed to be a relatively normal girl up until she became addicted to drugs and murdered her eighty-one-year-old grandfather in cold blood. This story and more are featured in this True Crime anthology.

A collection of True Crime stories on the most unlikely of serial killers...even police officers are included here with the likes of Antoinette Frank... Who do you trust? A doctor. A teacher. A police officer? There is something bizarrely discomforting about crime committed by those in authority. It should not really be so surprising, though, that even those in positions of power still err; after all, behind the suit, or the white coat or the badge is a human being. One with the same passions, strengths and weaknesses as anybody else.But, somehow, we expect more from these people. And so, we feel a greater let down when they act in ways that disappoint. Add to that, when one of their victims is little more than a child, and the other a cop, any lingering sympathy that might exist for the culprit is swept away as was the case with Antoinette Frank.

Livy is a prostitute on the run from the vicious Madam Brandy. Seeking an escape, Livy impersonates a dying friend who is the mail order bride for Gabriel, an Amish rancher. Livy enters the lifestyle and community with disdain but both the rancher and the religion grow on her over time. Then the Madam and a henchman track her down. Will Livy be honest about her past as Gabriel fights for her freedom and honor?

Two Goth teenage girls develop a popular Youtube channel where they talk about make-up... and proving that the existence of vampires are real. But when they go to investigate an abandoned house where an unsolved "vampire" killing took place, they find out first hand how real vampires really are...

Joyce Cohen thought she hit the jackpot when she married construction mogul Stan Cohen. The young Joyce was finally able to live the life of entitlement she thought she deserved while partying it up in Cohen's mansion, ranches, and night clubs. But her party would come to an end five years later when she would claim that three burglars invaded her home and killed Stan. The authorities believed her at first until a felon disclosed to police that they were hired by Joyce to kill Stan. Prosecutors then took the bait, painting Joyce as a gold digging murderer who plotted Stan's killing when he threatened divorce. But did she do it? This True Crime anthology examines the who's and why's of the Stan Cohen murder.

A shy Amish woman writes a love letter to a farmhand that she has a crush on but it is delivered to another young man instead. Embarrassment ensues as the young woman finds herself with an unwanted suitor...until she gets to know him...but when her original crush begins to express an interest she finds herself in a quandary...whom will she now choose?

John is a businessman visiting a small town in order to shut down one of the store franchises he owns in the area. He had no intention of making any personal relationships with the townfolk, until he sees the prettiest woman he's ever laid eyes on. It turns out she is one of the employees of the store that is being shut down which is sure to bring economic ruin to the town. As he becomes closer to the woman, he has a crisis of conscience of whether to close the store down or keep it open while he pursues a romance with her in this moral tale of small town values.

A True Crime anthology headlined by the "Amnesiac Killer", Danielle Stewart..."I don't remember"...Those were the words of Danielle Stewart as she was confronted by police who arrested her for the murder of her 55 year old husband, Chaim Kimel. In one of Australia's most controversial cases, Stewart would claim to have no recollection of the night when she stabbed her husband two times in his abdomen during one of their many alcohol fueled fights...Suffering through an abusive childhood and struggling with depression, Stewart was a ticking time bomb when she met the older and charming Chaim Kimel. The two would begin a tumultuous romance that would culminate in a night of violence that would change their lives forever.

Juan Corona terrorized ranchers in the Sacramento Valley for years, evading capture because of the selection of his victims...people who would not be missed.

Anna and Jake are a DINK (dual income, no kids) couple. They have their entire life planned out in terms of career, where they're going to live and even where they are going to go on vacation years ahead of time. A wrench is thrown into their plans when Anna discovers that Jake has been cheated on her. A violent argument ensues and Anna accidentally kills Jake. She stuffs his body into the trunk of her car and plans to do away with his body when she is stopped by a female police office. She soon finds out, however, that the police officer knows a lot more about her and Jake than she could ever imagine...

Courtney has it all on her father's ranch but she wants more out of life than just lazing around. Seeking a life of service, she looks into the prospect of heading further west until her mother intervenes. Discovering that the son of a politically connected rich man is coming into town, her mother plans a ball and sets Courtney up with the eligible bachelor. But a humble rancher from down the road named Hunter has eyes for Courtney. She begins to realize she has feelings for him as well and the two begin a flirtation...But Hunter doesn't feel as if he is good enough for the well-to-do Courtney. Neither do her parents. Can he overcome his lack of self-esteem and win over both her and her parents? Or will the rich man come into town and sweep them both off their feet?

Joanna is the oldest sister in her family but unfortunately the only one that is unmarried. Taking care of her elderly grandmother, she is persuaded to grant her a dying wish. Her grandmother wants her to become a mail order bride....Thinking she is senile, Joanna refuses her sisters and grandmother set her up with a man named Lorne from Colorado. Upon arrival, Joanna finds him to be a man suffering from emotional wounds of the past. He seems resistant to her kindness but Joanna can feel his attraction to her, he just cannot express it. And the hurts from the past run a lot deeper than they both even realize. Will Lorne finally realize that Joanna is a gift from God and that he has been blessed with a second chance at life?

Tales of the supernatural to keep you up late...Spooky - Pastor Adams tries to welcome everyone who comes into his church...But when a weird stranger begins to attend his services, he struggles to balance his beliefs with his gut instinct. And when is daughter goes missing,he begins a frantic search to find the strange man that he suspects of abducting her.

Sara and Lila are one of the most popular ghost hunters on Youtube. Their videos have garnered a huge fan base but they soon become pressed for more material. Sara, however, receives an e-mail offering them free lodging and payment if they spend the night filming at an old plantation home in Louisiana. The young women jump at the offer and hop on the plane with their crew to shoot the haunted mansion in the swamps of Louisiana. When they arrive, however, they soon discover that the ghosts in this haunted house are very real and unlike anything they've encountered before.Ray is the head of the Zombies, one of the most notorious biker gangs in California. As they head out to the woods for a night of drugs and sex, he gets high enough to be coerced by his occult loving girlfriend to commit suicide...atfer she assures them they will return as a members of the undead. In his drug haze, they follow a satanic ritual and achieve success...much to the dismay of their fellow bikers...

Independence was thrust upon Michelle Raber, an Amish woman from Pennsylvania, when she finally decided to take control of her life and leave an abusive life behind. Now miles away from home and family she finally managed to start over. Running her own bakery, Pearls and Swirls, she needs nothing more, especially romance. But when Eva Lapp pays her an unexpected visit with a surprising request her life is turned upside down. Required to be Eva's grandson Daniel's pretend-girlfriend, she's conflicted by the sudden rush of feelings that develop towards him, but the lie is suffocating her.Daniel, a handsome Amish bachelor who keeps to himself has no interest in marriage or romance after the death of his father Jacob, a year after his mother Rachel passed away. But Bishop Fischer has other plans. Daniel is to ask his daughter Grace for her hand by Christmas, whether he likes it or not. Opposed to the idea, he goes along with his grandmother's plan only to realize that he's falling for Michelle Raber. Neither of the two are particularly fond of Christmas... until now.

The rain never came. They waited and waited only to be left hungry and full of misery. Their bellies ached so they filled their gullets with water but that was not enough to satisfy that which gnawed inside of them. First went the mother. She was already fragile from a past illness so the famine did not help the situation. Then went the father who really died of a broken heart more than anything else. "I'm scared." Said Katie as she clung to her older sister. They were burning the last of their firewood and if they wanted to keep warm, they would need to go out and gather it from the forest but the sisters barely had the strength to stand let alone chop down wood. "It'll be okay," Mackenzie whispered against her sister's hair. "I promise." But she barely believed herself. Life had taken such a turn that it felt like they were spiraling towards rock bottom and there was really no way to stop it. Nevertheless, Mackenzie prayed for a miracle but she feared that God was no longer listening to her. And so, the two sisters fell asleep wrapped in each other's arms as Mackenzie dreamed of a man to come save her.

Joe Sullivan is framed by a biker gang and vows revenge when he is released from prison. Unable to wait, he breaks jail with the help of his girl, Pat. But the bikers kidnap Ann Martin, a stranger who sympathetically corresponded with Joe while he was in jail. As his plans to exact revenge are complicated by Ann's presence, Joe works to find a way to rescue her.

A fanatical photographer wants to recreate the scene of his mother's car accident when he hires a young drifter named Terry to model opposite his girlfriend Cindy. Things go awry, however, when Cindy begins to fall for Terry and persuades the young man to run away with her and leave her crazy boyfriend behind. What she doesn't know is that her whacked photographer boyfriend has a plan for everything.

On January 23, 1990, a college student driving around in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, noticed a body lying in an embankment off the highway. The young woman was half-naked, and investigators discovered that she had been strangled, the rope still looped tightly around her neck. The student was immediately considered a suspect, and an interview was done at the police station. He stated that he had just done his finals, and decided to take a drive to clear his head when he spotted the body. His story sounded plausible, but since it had been raining at the time, investigators found it odd that he chose that time to take a scenic drive. To make sure all their bases were covered, they called the school and managed to confirm the student's story. This left them with no suspects, and the victim's identity was still unknown. They released various details to the media, hoping that someone would recognize the woman. The plan panned out...The victim's identity was discovered but the question remained...Who killed her?

Aaron and Hannah have been a popular couple in the Amish community for a long time. Their fellow Amish view them as a couple that other young people should see as role models. But behind the scenes, an anger simmers. They fight on a daily basis, with small squabbles soon turning into mutual verbal abuse. They both try to find ways to fix their marriage and are about to give up when one night a fire hits their home and burns part of their attic. married things were absolutely great. But when a fire burns down part of their attic, they begin sifting through the ash and find items of their past to remind them of how deeply they were in love. Can they rebuild their love from the ashes?

Holly Ann Grigsby will go down in the annals of history not just for her murderous crimes but for her radical beliefs that she claims are "misunderstood." Grigsby and her ex-boyfriend David "Joey" Pederson went on a ten-day killing spree that spanned three states in 2011. Because of this, they're going to serve a sentence that will span the of their natural lives. According to the judicial record, there were four murder victims because of the couple's treacherous acts, but there are far more victims who have to suffer, mourn, and go on living without their loved ones in their arms as a direct result of their actions. We don't know much about Holly's childhood, or what kinds of things may have happened to her in her early years to influence her behavior. From a genetic and demographic background, there aren't very many white female serial killers at all. Holly is far from the only killer woman alive, there are a few, but how does she compare to other known female offenders?

Rebecca Esh watched as the familiar hills and plains of her small Pennsylvania community fell into view. It had been a long buggy ride; they had been travelling for half a day.She felt a small stab of excitement, at the thought of finally coming home. She had been staying with some friends of her family, who were English, for the past month. It was all part of her rumspringa. She had sampled many things in the big city, including going to art galleries and English restaurants. It had been enjoyable, of course, and she wouldn't change the experience for the world.But she wanted to return to her community, and start life as a fully committed adult Amish. She was ready.At last. Her family's farmhouse was in view.She was back in her familiar surroundings. And it was time to find a husband...

Helena answers a mail order bride advertisement thinking that her betrothed is the Sheriff of a Montana town. She's giddy about meeting her handsome new husband and his young son but is puzzled when he's not there to meet her. To add to the confusion, when she finally meets the sheriff he has no recollection of sending for a mail order bride. But if he didn't write those letters, who did?

An anthology of Amish Romance headlined by Marisa Meyer's "Amish Love Letters". New Beginnings For who knows the way of the Lord... The orphaned Nikki Lapp is inconsolable when her only surviving family member, her grandmother, has passed away. With so many questions unanswered about her past, she feels lost. But when the town minister gives her an envelope containing a letter from her grandmother a whole new journey begins. She travels to Kidron, an Amish village in Ohio, to fulfill her grandmother's last wish. Once there, she meets a man who may hold the secret to her past.

David Carpenter, also known as the Trailside Killer, stalked, sexually assaulted, and murdered mostly women on hiking trails near San Francisco, California, with a few victims in Santa Cruz, California. Most of his victims were shot in the head, execution-style, while a couple of them were stabbed to death. Carpenter's reign of terror lasted from 1979 into 1981 when he was subsequently arrested, tried, and convicted of death.

Over six years ago, a serial killer abducted Avianne and sexually assaulted her before she escaped. Her tormentor would be caught but she lost everything in her life, psychologically, emotionally and her boyfriend..Struggling with the memories, she finds sanctuary at a new job and a therapist. But has her scars begin to heal, a cop associated with her case contacts her. He believes that the crime was committed by another man and that he's still out there. She's asked to do the unthinkable...become a decoy to bring him out of hiding...if she goes through with it, she may not come out alive...but if she doesn't...countless women will be at risk from this monster...can Avianne do it?

Things couldn't be better for Leah. The man of her dreams, Alvin, wants to marry her. She readies herself for a lifetime of happiness and children. But a freak accident leaves her confined to a wheelchair. The prognosis is grim and she cannot help but become bitter. She begins to reject the attentions of both her family and Alvin. But Alvin still wants to marry her despite the fact she has hurt him with her words. Will she soften her heart and open herself up to him before it is too late?

In the early 1990s, former Veterans Affairs (VA) nurse Kristen Gilbert was found guilty of murdering four of her patients - and convicted of attempting to murder two more. Gilbert is suspected to be responsible for the deaths of dozens more veterans who were under her care during her career as a nurse.