When Bad Things Happen

She turned her back for one second. Now they're trapped. Elizabeth thought she'd planned for everything. Her son's rare seizure disorder meant constant routines, strict safeguards, unbreakable structure. But one brief stop at a gas station shatters her fragile world. In a heartbeat, her car is hijacked-with Timothy still inside. She throws herself into the moving car, but that's only the beginning of the nightmare. As hours stretch into days, they're held captive in a remote, crumbling house-cut off from everyone. No phone. No medication. No help. Elizabeth must keep her son alive while navigating the volatile mind of the man holding them captive, and her own spiraling fear. Because Timothy is running out of time. And she's all he's got. A pulse-pounding psychological thriller exploring maternal instinct, survival, and the harrowing choices we face when everything we love is on the line. The first book in the emotionally gripping and nerve-shredding When Bad Things Happen series.

She thought surviving meant they were safe. She was wrong. After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Elizabeth is determined to protect her son and reclaim their quiet life. No more strangers. No more threats. Just safety. But safety is a fragile illusion. A courtroom mandate forces her to open their home to a psychologist and a social worker-two people who claim to help but begin asking the wrong questions. Her parenting. Her past. Her sanity. When Timothy begins to withdraw and show signs of distress, Elizabeth suspects something is very wrong. But is it the trauma resurfacing-or something far more dangerous? Because someone wants control. Someone wants access. And someone isn't who they claim to be. A taut psychological thriller about trust, trauma, and the terrifying cost of being believed. Trust is book two in the emotionally gripping When Bad Things Happen series.

She knows what it's like to be left behind. That's why she said yes. When a silent little girl is abandoned at court, Anna isn't the obvious choice to take her in. But something about the child feels painfully familiar-and impossible to walk away from. She thinks it's temporary. Just until the system finds a better option. But then a figure from her past resurfaces-the one she thought she'd escaped for good. He's watching. Waiting. And the closer he gets, the more Anna's carefully rebuilt life begins to splinter. The girl won't speak. Anna won't run. But protecting her means facing the darkness she's spent years trying to forget. Selfish is a tense psychological thriller in the When Bad Things Happen series-gripping, intimate stories of ordinary women whose lives are upended by betrayal, danger, and the unexpected.

She needed the job. She ignored the feeling. Worn down by the loss of her husband and bills she can't keep up with, Cynthia agrees to homeschool two teenage girls. One is a sweetheart. The other unsettles her. At first, she blames her unease on nerves, on guilt, on the pressure of raising her young daughter alone. But something about the second girl isn't right. The way she watches. The stories that don't add up. The way even the dog keeps his distance. Then a man from the past reappears-someone with ties to terrible things. And suddenly, Cynthia's fragile home doesn't feel safe anymore. Her instincts are screaming. But if she's wrong, she could ruin a child's life. If she's right, her daughter's safety may already be slipping through her fingers. Instinct is a taut psychological thriller in the When Bad Things Happen series-gripping, emotional stories about ordinary women caught in extraordinary, often harrowing turns of fate.