An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Wattpad. Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker - mutilated in a way he has witnessed once before, in Africa, years ago and thousands of miles away. The police in Nepal, anxious to quell a scandal, close the case and declare the victim a suicide. Only Paul is left to search for answers. He reaches out to his farflung tribe of fellow backpackers for help, and his discoveries lead him to a terrible conclusion: a killer is stalking the international backpacker trail, preying on victims in wild places far beyond the reach of any authorities. A killer whom Paul may already know. Finding the murderer becomes an obsession that leads Paul from Himalayan peaks, through the jungles of Indonesia, across the bleak Sahara desert -- and into some of the darkest places imaginable... Dark Places won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reviews "You're hooked ... the characters are delightfully delineated ... beautifully controlled ... Evans contrives to slip the necessary specialist net-head detail into the plot without being boring or patronising. He can also pin down a character with a few details deftly brushed in ... A pacy thriller for the 21st century." - The Times "Anyone would enjoy Evans' clever, relentlessly absorbing debut thriller that becomes a lot more than just another serial-killer mystery." - The Ottawa Citizen "In this haunting suspense debut, Evans takes the reader on a page-turning adventure across five continents ... (a) spooky, inventive tale." - Publishers Weekly

A serial killer is on the streets ready to pounce on his next victim, it could be anyone, even you. His name is The Heart Snatcher and he lives a normal life, you won't know who he is until it is too late. Remember to lock your doors and windows but who knows, he could already be inside maybe even next to you as you read this.

It's a simple concept: kill someone ages 14 to 20, gain their best trait. Anyone before, you're pretty messed up. Anyone after and you're a simple murderer on Rushwood Isles, an island off the coast of South Carolina with a dark secret and a violent nature. April Swanson is the new girl at Rushwood: a quiet, reserved cake decorator that works at the local bakery on weekends. After a tragedy snaps April, she embarks on a mission in for vengeance, closure, and explanation by fighting, in hopes of bringing justice to a wrongful murder. Infamous Levi Wolfe, named the "hero of the North" had been around the block already. With an incredibly fighting ability and a dark past, he's been the protector of the island for more than a year now. Murders and crime has never been so low since he's been kicking ass. That is, until the new girl interferes with his regimen and gives every ounce of strength they have a run for its money. Told in a dual perspective, a riveting story of fierce fights, witty comebacks, and romantic conflict is laid over a disturbing, simple premise: kill someone ages 14 to 20, and gain their best trait. It's simple, right?

[note: this is the sequel to Smolder.] Lacey Strauss has spent the last four months in forests and alleyways, assisting in murder and finding the path to closure over her long-lost friend Bridget - and simply trying to survive with a seventeen-year-old assassin named Asher and his older drunkard of a brother, Alex. But Lacey has realized that she's less of a captive and more of an...acquaintance, maybe? There's never any certainty in the relationship between Asher and Lacey, bitter enemies one moment and infatuation the next. There's never a definite line on where professionalism stops in Asher's occupation, where Lacey's stability begins and ends. Every choice, every decision, every line she draws could be the difference between life or death. And not just her own anymore.

Killing the gray-eyed, dark haired boy across the street in her minuscule town was closure to Lacey Strauss that evening, even when she'd never killed anything in her life, even when her past was just a broken record of leaving, leaving, and left, even when the whole world seemed dead set on working against her. And it would've been achieved if her victim hadn't been Asher Malloy: an avid smoker and commissioned killer at seventeen, working for the regional drug lord alongside his amiable alcoholic of an older brother, Alex. Because when Asher turns the situation around and takes Lacey captive for five months, closure's a long time coming -- if she doesn't die first. SMOLDER tells of an intense and unlikely relationship between Lacey Strauss, an unstable teenager with violence in her blood, and Asher Malloy, a smoking, knife-throwing, incredibly cold and temperamental killer. But as tensions swell and fade between the two, anywhere from lethal hatred to headstrong intimacy, suddenly Asher finds himself valuing the very girl who tried to kill him while Lacey starts realizing the value of human life the more she must take it.