On a cold and stormy night in October, six people enter a hotel room. But by the time morning comes, there will only be five of them left. *** Five months prior, McKenna Macintosh meets Carter Ford and is swept into a whole new world. As the summer progresses, so does the friendship between McKenna and Carter. But there are other complicated matters on the horizon in both of their lives, which centers around their friendship. And by the time they enter the hotel room in October, nothing will be the same again. Content warning: This story contains themes of self harm and violence.

Catalaina Kittridge has mysteriously vanished from her home in the middle of the night without a trace. Her fiancé, Ben, who she is set to marry in two months, is certain that somebody took her. Catalaina's parents confess that they always knew something like this would happen. Her friends suggest that perhaps her relationship with Ben isn't as idyllic as everyone thought. Detective Brett Porter is investigating the case. He begins looking into Catalaina's life meticulously to determine what could have happened to her. But the deeper he delves, the more secrets he unearths and realizes that what might have been painted as a picture-perfect existence is anything but. Catalaina was hiding things from everyone. And the months preceding her disappearance are the most crucial pieces to finding her. Told in compelling first-person voices of the both Detective Porter and Catalaina, LOVES ME NOT shows the hidden complexities of a woman's life and how the myriad pressures of everyday life and unfulfilled dreams might drive an ostensibly happy person to extremes.

When Isabelle Donovan doesn't show up for work one morning, it calls for great concern. Isabelle has a near perfect attendance record and wouldn't dare miss a day without giving notice. The police begin investigating right away and focus on her husband, Scott Donovan, who she separated from six months prior. Scott, who claims to know nothing about his wife's disappearance, is caught in a lie when Isabelle's best friend comes forward with new information. A year earlier, another young woman mysteriously vanished under similar circumstances to Isabelle and was never seen or heard from again. Her body was never found, but police were convinced it was the husband, though they could never prove it. Now, as the search for Isabelle continues, questions begin to surface. Why did her marriage really end? Is Scott telling the truth? And most notably, could there be a correlation to the other disappearance? But if there is, then Scott must be innocent. ... Or perhaps not. Because in this story, nobody is innocent.

While investigating the mysterious deaths of three girls in the remote town of Briarwood, Detective Evan O'Riley tries to solve a cold case of the town's serial killer from the 1960's. *** Three sixteen-year-old girls are found dead after being plunged off the roof of their school. The question it poses: did they jump, or were they pushed? Detective Evan O'Riley has been solving crimes in Riverton for six years. Some cases have answers, others remain unsolved. His latest case brings him to the remote town of Briarwood where he begins his investigation into whether the case is a triple homicide or suicide. While working the case, Evan hears about an infamous serial killer that brought havoc to Briarwood in the 1960's called the The SAD Killer. The best part? He was never caught. As Evan tries to solve the triple deaths of the girls, he gets swept fifty years into the past, digging up case files and tracking down old family members and investigators from the 1965 murders. Evan becomes determined to solve the mystery once and for all and finally put a name to the SAD Killer. But little does Evan know, the killer may be closer than he thinks... Cover designed by Holly Thurston