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Thirty-eight-year-old Rebecca Barlow drops her four-year-old son off at her parents' house, promising to return by five. Five comes and goes. Then six. Then seven. Worried, Rebecca's parents try calling. She doesn't answer, and her friends haven't heard from her either. It seems no one has. As concern mounts, Rebecca's father drives to the lake house where she's been staying. Rebecca is nowhere in sight. The following morning brings a grisly discovery when Rebecca's body is found floating in the lake.

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A cryptic message. A missing niece. And only 24 hours to pay. After traveling to New Orleans to see his niece's band on tour, Police Chief Drake Cooper, a.k.a. Coop, finds a piece of paper stuck to the front door of his brother's home. A handwritten message reveals his niece has been abducted, a ransom is being demanded, and Coop's family has 24 hours to pay.

Marissa Calhoun sits alone on a beach-like swimming hole nestled on Australia's foreshore. Tonight, the lagoon is hers and hers alone. Or, is it? A tall figure steps out from behind the tree, his face cloaked beneath a dark hoodie. His footsteps slap against the pavement, fast and hard. Twenty feet, then 15, then 10. Instinct kicks in, and Marissa breaks into a sprint, but she's too late. His hand claws into the back of her head. Grabbing a fistful of her hair, he plunges her face into the water.

Fed up with her lazy, unruly neighbor, Mary Pritchard sprints across the street, determined to give Darryl a piece of her mind. She arrives to find he's been shot, the bullet piercing the center of his forehead. He's been executed, and that's not all. A mysterious woman is sprawled out on the floor in Darryl's hallway. She's dead too. Who is the woman? Why is she there? And why have they both been murdered?

After a physical altercation with an aggressive date, Sloane's best friend Maddie drives home, vowing never to go on another blind date again. Headlights flash off and on through her car's back windshield. Someone is following close behind, trying to run her off the road. When Maddie's car careens into a nearby tree, the chase comes to an end. But for Maddie, the end is just the beginning.

After her mother-in-law is fatally stabbed, Wren Bancroft is seen fleeing the house with the bloody knife. Is Wren really the killer, or is a dark, scandalous family secret to blame?

A fancy hotel. A weekend getaway. For Sloane Monroe, rest has finally arrived, until the lights go out and her nightmare begins.

It was Isabelle Donnelly's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. Three women, three motives to kill.

t was Isla Everley's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. When two women with no apparent connection are found dead at the same wedding, medical examiner Reagan Davenport will stop at nothing to discover the identity of the killer...even if it means untangling a deadly web of lies she'll live to regret.

It was Isabelle Donnelly's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. Three women, three motives to kill.

On a calm summer evening, Giovanni takes his young son Luca for drive. A car pulls alongside, and when the window comes down, the driver is holding a gun. He aims, showering Daniela's car with gunfire. Who is this man? Why has he taken Giovanni? And will Luca survive?