I Sold the Shoes That Killed Him

When his bullied daughter is pulled lifeless from the river, Derek refuses an autopsy and takes hush money from the rich girls’ families—earning the town’s hatred and his ex-wife’s scorn. But behind his cold mask, Derek is hunting for the truth, even as the parents of the guilty turn to violence and revenge. In a town obsessed with SATs and status, how far will a father go when justice is for sale?

Death didn’t end my story—it set the stakes. I woke as a ghost, memories erased, bound to the man I once loved: Dr. Harrison, the forensic pathologist tasked with unraveling my brutal murder. As he examines my ruined body, I drift helplessly beside him, piecing together the truth of my death—and the life we almost shared. But the clock is ticking: seven days to reclaim my memories or disappear forever. Each revelation brings heartbreak, rage, and the aching hope that love might survive even death. When Harrison is abducted by my killer, I must make an unthinkable sacrifice—trading my own afterlife for a chance to save him. Will justice or love win, or will I vanish before I can say goodbye?

He was supposed to be my happy ending—until I met the girl he could never forget, and she slipped me a note with two words: Run. Now. When Sierra walks into her boyfriend’s perfect home, she steps into a web of secrets, obsession, and a family haunted by the disappearance of her own sister. As she unravels the truth behind a missing fiancée, a shattered first love, and a chilling murder caught on tape, Sierra transforms from prey to predator—plotting a revenge that will tear the Keller family apart from the inside. But in a world where love and betrayal are inseparable, how far will she go before she loses herself to vengeance? What if the only justice is to become the monster they made her?

When a privileged predator murders an innocent college girl, her grieving father begs for justice—but the system rewards silence and connections instead. Trapped between a corrupt mentor and his own conscience, Jimmy must choose: protect his future, or expose the truth behind the courtroom’s dirty deals. In a world where money erases guilt, how much is a life really worth?

A washed-up reporter, Ethan Grady, is drawn into a pact with a serial killer who supplies him with exclusive crime tips, reviving his career at the expense of his soul. As Ethan becomes entangled in a cycle of staged deaths and moral decay, his personal life unravels, leading to a devastating confrontation with the true architect of the murders—Autumn Sloan, seeking revenge for a past tragedy. In the end, Ethan pays the ultimate price for his ambition and complicity.

Detective Mike Lawson thought he'd seen every kind of cruelty—until a suburban family is butchered with surgical precision, their bodies scattered like trash. The killer confesses but claims no motive, leaving Mike haunted by the chilling truth: in Chicago, if you want to get away with murder, you don't kill your own enemy—you trade. As the city sleeps, a deadly pact is forged, and no one is safe from the next exchange.

My little sister died as a decoy so the Sullivans could survive, and my father called it fortune. Now orphaned and branded by betrayal, I’m forced to serve the girl who once humiliated me—my childhood tormentor, now my master. But as secrets, blood money, and forbidden promises bind us, I’ll do whatever it takes to make them all pay for what they stole from me.

Death is supposed to be the end—so why is Aaron Price, missing and presumed dead after a fatal fall in the haunted Black Ridge Mountains, suddenly haunting the people he loved most? Evan, Aaron’s lifelong best friend, is left reeling by the loss—and by Natalie, the woman both men once loved, who claims Aaron has returned, alive and watching from the shadows. When a night meant for comfort turns into a blood-soaked nightmare and Natalie is murdered by a figure wearing Aaron’s face, Evan is thrust into a spiraling mystery: Was Aaron’s death faked, or has something darker come back from the mountains? Each clue drags Evan deeper into a web of obsession, betrayal, and impossible choices—where every answer only leads to more questions. Is Aaron a ghost, a killer, or something neither man nor myth? How far will Evan go to uncover the truth before he becomes the next to vanish?

With just two hours left before his execution, Brian Ellis offers his counselor a chilling bargain: listen to the story that made him a monster. As secrets unravel—of a mother's desperate love, abuse that festered in silence, and a murder planned for years—Dr. Carter must decide if justice is ever as simple as it seems. But Brian’s final confession hides a twist that could haunt them both forever.

My own father strangled me to death—but that’s not where my story truly begins. Emily Walker spent her whole life as the family scapegoat, blamed for her father’s failures and haunted by the loss of the only person who loved her: her mother. After years of tiptoeing around Leonard’s rage, Emily claws her way out with nothing but determination and her mother’s last words echoing in her heart. But freedom comes with a price, and Leonard isn’t done with her—not when there’s money on the line, and not when the past refuses to stay buried. When your own blood is your biggest threat, how far would you go to break the cycle? And what if the only way to survive is to become the villain in your own family’s story?

He was my sun, my secret, and my undoing. As the Lane family’s loyal attendant, I grew up loving Ethan from the shadows—until the day he traded my trust for his own ambition, poisoning me and selling me to Magnolia House. Stripped of my voice and dignity, I become a silent prize in a world of velvet cruelty and whispered deals, caught between the ruthless Marquis Carter and the man who once swore to save me. Yet every humiliation is a test: how much pain can love survive, and how far will power go to bury the truth? When a forbidden night puts me back in Ethan’s sights, will I find freedom—or lose what’s left of my soul? What does a broken boy do when even hope becomes a weapon?

Caleb watched his mother die and was dragged into a nightmare, ripped from home with his little brother and sold to strangers who erased their names. Eighteen years later, he returns to the town that betrayed him, haunted by the memory of the day his family was shattered and the brother he lost in the darkness. Some scars never fade—and Caleb will risk everything to uncover the truth, no matter who must pay.