Thrilled Stories

Just a regular job.... Get in, crack the safe, fetch the diamonds. That's what hobby cat burglar and acclaimed jewelry maker Calendar Moonstone has aimed for. Instead she finds a dead body, meets a handsome Detective, has a nosey insurance investigator on her tracks and manages a complicated boyfriend situation. And must solve a century old jewelry mystery!

While investigating the chilling deaths of three teenage girls in the remote town of Briarwood, Detective Evan O'Riley is drawn into the unsolved mysteries of a notorious 1960s serial killer. Three sixteen-year-old girls have plunged from the roof of their school. The question lingers: did they jump, or were they pushed? Tasked with uncovering the truth, Evan O'Riley---seasoned by years of crime-solving in Riverton---arrives in Briarwood, determined to discover whether he's facing triple homicide or a heartbreaking suicide. As he delves into the case, Evan uncovers unsettling whispers about the town's infamous SAD Killer, whose string of brutal murders left Briarwood haunted---and whose identity was never discovered. Fifty years later, the ghosts of the past resurface as Evan combs through long-buried evidence, tracks down survivors, and seeks out old investigators tied to the original crimes. Driven to find answers for both the present and the past, Evan is relentless in his pursuit of justice. But as old secrets come to light and the investigation intensifies, Evan realizes the SAD Killer's legacy isn't as distant as he believed---the danger may be closer than anyone imagines.

It started with a lemon sorbet. Then a cold, dead body smiled. ✘ ✘ ✘ In a chance of a lifetime, Wendy Cain's innocent little crush on an infamous pariah, Leon Song, is swept up in a game of cat, mouse and murder as a dead body is found in his home... and the natural suspect being the amorously charming man. Can a simple crush acquit you murder? Or will you fall riddles to the hands of charm? Cover designed by Holly Thurston.

Alianna Winter managed to keep herself out of trouble for a grand total of ten weeks. Which, as she pointed out to Isabel, was actually rather good. Isabel naturally didn't agree. Answering a plea for help from Chief Inspector Barnes, Allie finds herself in a very unfamiliar situation; in a courtroom. As a last-minute member of the jury. The case she is supposed to be trying seems incredibly straightforward at first glance, but as Allie soon finds, nothing is as it seems. It's up to her to change the minds of the rest of the jury, or a woman will surely hang. -The seventh book in the Alianna Winter series. Her earlier cases: 1.Death At Scarlet Leaf 2.The Merryweather Jewel Thefts 3.A House On The Hill 4.Murder Is At Hand 5.The Incident Concerning The Alsatian Dog 6.At The Plaza Majestic Her later cases: 8.A Murder Shall Commence 9.The Impossible Poisoning 10.The Final Endgame The Toby Smart Spin-offs: What Makes A Detective What Breaks A Detective

***This story is told completely through Toby's POV*** My life has stopped... I was supposed to keep training. I was supposed to keep developing the skills that it took to be the slenderman's proxy. I was supposed to be there for Sally when she couldn't sleep. I was supposed to be between Jeff and Ben while they tried to show me a movie I could never sit still long enough for. I was supposed to be standing in front of Masky while he yelled at me about my carelessness. I was supposed to be there to receive Hoodie's reassuring smile. I was supposed to be with them... but I'm not. Something horrible happened to me...

Kate Anderson, a girl from a small farming community in Glendale, Wisconsin just got the break of her life -- she was accepted to Chicago's University of Illinois College of Medicine. Ready to take on the Windy City, nothing can stand in her way. Except for one thing -- the night she accepts a 'friend request' on Facebook from a Pete Peterson. ***Updated Regularly***

Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is. ***** A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche? *2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller* [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque

All is well in Patty's life until her best friend goes missing. No note. No texts, just got up and was gone the next day. People say she ran off with some guy, or was hiding because she was pregnant with notorious bad boy, that Patty never seemed to like, Jasper Mckinley's child. Some say, she's dead. Patty denies all of it. She knew Jasmine like the back of her hand and she was convinced she did not run away or fell in a ditch somewhere. A year has passed. But she never stopped believing her best friend was still alive. So what happens when a stranger suddenly sends her flowers with notes about things only Jasmine and her would know? And she finds herself asking for help from the very guy she suspects? Everything starts to become a game. For every flower delivered to her doorstep, the chances of finding her best friend alive, decreases.

There's one man who had it all. He had his friends. His favorite job. Like everything. But what happens when things take an unexpected turn when he gets injured and starts getting things. Love notes. That is all he has been getting. He's been getting all these love notes but he doesn't know what to do with them. The mysterious girl is completely crazy about Dean Ambrose. She does things that affects his friendship with his friends. Will Dean let this mysterious person get in between him and his friends? Follow Dean on this very weird road on who his secret admirer is. (This is based on the movie 'Crush' I did an imagine on this movie and I thought I would then make a book out of it. There is gonna be some stuff that is not gonna be like what happened in the movie, if you have ever seen it. I have three original characters. Dean and other superstars will appear as well. I'm putting my own little twist on this) Started: 8.24.16 Ended: 8.2.17

"Soothe the devils in my head, love me to my death." In which a psychiatrist gets kidnapped by a serial killer, only to lose her mind.

"Oh, look, we're back home! You'll be a lamb for me now, right? Unless you'd like a bullet in that pretty little head of yours, I'd suggest you do as I say." "Starving. I've been starving for so long that I don't even care how I get it. I just want it, I need to know someone needs me." // Young Acacia finds herself kidnapped by the murderous son of a famous sociopath. How will she manage to survive the violent outbursts and mental torture?

Rhoda faces the world with her broad mind and complex thinking. There wasn't much on her to do list until a mysterious item fell into her possession. It was one she craved to explore to its depths... It turned out that she wasn't the only one who was captured by its unique aura, as it held the secrets others would love to keep buried. *** Updates every Tuesday

Her life was a lie. Now the truth is deadly. Mary leads an ordinary life, until she notices strange men following her. When her mother admits she knows more than she's letting on, Mary begins to question everything and everyone around her. Why is she being watched? And who is she, really? What she uncovers turns her entire world upside down: dark secrets about her family, her past... and herself. Together with her friend Jason, Mary sets out to find answers. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous things become, and the harder it is to know who she can truly trust.

Scarlett Black has been a vampire for eight years and is now forced to go back to school. She must control herself in front of so much food-all for a puppy. [Starts in Season 1] [Stiles Stilinski x OC]

13+ "Sharna Davis, Detective Sharna Davis. Remember that name well, Detective" Sharna Davis is a young ambitious Detective trying to begin her career, she doesn't stop till she gets what she wants. After 2 whole years, she is sick of her boss and boring job at the police station, so she decides to quit and become a private detective. She has always dreamt of becoming a detective and achieving justice ever since her father's mysterious death as a child. Through out the story she will be going through different crimes in which some will be long like 5 chapters while others would be short like 2 or 3 chapters leading to the final case, the death of her father.

At thirty-four, Prithwijit Ganguly has power, wealth, and a carefully engineered public image. What he does not have is an heir. Marriage is inconvenient. Scandal is unacceptable. So he drafts a solution. Indrani Dutta. Twenty-one. High IQ. From a wealthy family. Medically screened. Contractually secured. Two years of cohabitation. Pregnancy. A child. No emotions. No claims. No future beyond the agreement. It is efficient. Controlled. Transactional. Until control begins to shift. Because Indrani is not fragile. Not naïve. Not disposable. And the more calculated the arrangement becomes, the more dangerous the cracks in it are. Legacy demands blood. Power demands precision. But desire, ego, and autonomy do not follow contracts. ⚠️ Content Warnings This work contains: Age-gap relationship (all characters are adults) Non-traditional relationship structure Unmarried pregnancy and parenthood Postpartum themes and early parenthood dynamics Discussions of marriage, legitimacy, and social expectations Family pressure regarding commitment and public recognition Power imbalance related to wealth and political status Public scrutiny and reputational concerns References to societal labeling and stigma Exploration of autonomy, consent, and emotional dependency Institutional and cultural critique (marriage, lineage, social norms)

She was a poison, one as sweet as honey and as lethal as monkshood. She made love to him while stabbing him in the back.

In the rain-drenched, neon-soaked metropolis of Veridia, where the city's own technology controls everything, Detective Kaelen Reyes is a ghost of the past. A man who trusts his gut in a world run by algorithms, he sees a whisper of murder where the Central AI sees only accident. When a tech titan dies in a suspicious "malfunction," Kae's investigation reveals a single, chilling clue: a digital echo, a ghost's signature left at the scene. His only ally is Lena Petrova, a brilliant, data-driven analyst who believes in the cold logic of the system. Together, they form an unlikely team-one following intuition, the other following code-to hunt a phantom killer who can turn the city's own infrastructure into a weapon of perfect murder. Their pursuit leads them deep into Veridia's corrupt heart, where they uncover a secret project named Chimera-a digital shadow government set to seize control of everything. As they close in, the hunter becomes the hunted. Branded fugitives by their own department, Kae and Lena soon realize the conspiracy is personal. Its mastermind is a ghost from Kae's past, a man he once called a friend. Now, they must fight not only to save Veridia from a silent, digital coup, but to confront a truth that could shatter Kae's world forever. In a city where reality itself can be hacked, can a single detective's instinct take down the ghost in the machine?

✦ ̣̣ ۟ ︵ "𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐮𝐩. . . " ✦ ˙ • ◡̈ - ¡Hi! I'm Seebny, this story's author. I'm a 16 years old "writer" that thought it would be a good idea to publish this here after the good receivement of my friends. This story might suck, but that's okay! I don't expect anyone to see this, but I'm doing anyways. But if you do read it, thank you, so so much! I love you guys <3.

Elizabeth doesn't have a bad life, in fact she has everything a woman could want from a gorgeous home to two wonderful children and a handsome almost perfect husband. Elizabeth is trapped in a golden cage that nobody even realizes is there, stuck in a loveless marriage with a cheating husband who is never around. But somebody is watching Elizabeth and he sees what's going on behind the picket fence. He's the most dangerous, terrifying man she has ever met and he wants her to do terrible things to the husband who wronged her, he wants her to live her own life. Even as she falls deeper down the rabbit hole of deception and betrayal she can't stop, not now maybe not ever.