Tom Lake Book Review

He Calls Her “Cara”… But Treats Her Like a Stranger. She thought she was marrying for love. He knew it was a contract. When Sarah Malik, an Omega agreed to marry the aloof, dangerously charming billionaire Alpha Lorenzo Matteo, she believed it was the start of a real future—one built on passion, maybe even love. But the truth shatters her: it was all a deal, sealed by her father behind her back. Trapped in a loveless union, Sarah tries to guard her heart, but the man she’s bound to isn’t easy to ignore. Lorenzo is cold, controlled, and impossible to read… until cracks begin to show. Beneath the bitterness lies a man tormented by secrets—and perhaps feelings he never expected to have. With a baby on the way, old wounds, and new emotions threatening to erupt, Sarah must decide: will she walk away from the man who broke her heart, or stay and uncover the truth about the love she never saw coming?

Alice Harper marries her stepsister’s fiancé, Ryan Bennett, in a contract marriage to save her family from financial ruin, unaware of the storm ahead. After giving birth, her jealous step sister Clara steals her child and manipulates Ryan into divorcing Alice and exiling her from the country. Alone and heartbroken, Alice rebuilds her life abroad and discovers she gave birth to twins. Five years later, Alice returns to Australia as a wealthy doctor, determined to reclaim her child, uncover the truth, and seek revenge. However, Clara, now married to Ryan, will stop at nothing to protect her secrets, even as new enemies arise and old wounds are reopened.

Clarise Morticia is a college student who has a silent but sweetest life. Having a strict mother, Clarise pressured herself to have a social elite life...classy and elegant like her classmates. She decided to socialize with her classmates on a three night camping trip in Tanay, Rizal. She encountered bad luck that her life changed into a traumatic nightmare. With her psychotic mind, she seek for revenge that led her to become a revengeful seductive woman, who kills every men she desired, except for one... "When I found you... You will suffer in my hell but, at the same time you will be pleasured in my heaven..." Clarise is his dead end. She will be his heaven and hell... His sweetest psycho killer with no remorse.

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

The things we want are so very rarely the things we need. Clifton Heights, a modest Adirondack town, offers many unique attractions. Arcane Delights sells both paperbacks and hard-to-find limited editions. The Skylark Diner serves the best home-cooked meals around, with friendly service and a smile. Every August, Mr. Jingo’s County Fair visits, to the delight of children and adults. In essence, Clifton Heights is the quintessential small American town. Everyone knows everyone else, and everyone is treated like family. It is quiet, simple, and peaceful. But shadows linger here. Flitting in dark corners, from the corner of the eye. If you walk down Main Street after dark, the slight scrape of shoes on asphalt whispers you're not alone, but when you look over your shoulder, no one is there. The moon shines high and bright in the night sky, but instead of throwing light, it only seems to make the shadows lengthen. Children disappear. Teens run away. Hunters get lost in the woods with frightening regularity. Husbands go mad, and wives vanish in the dead of night. And still, when the sun rises in the morning, you are greeted by townspeople with warm waves and friendly smiles, and the shivers pass as everything seems fresh and new... Until night falls once more. Handy's Pawn and Thrift sits several blocks down from Arcane Delights. Like any thrift store, its wares range from the mundane to the bizarre. By daylight, it seems just another slice of small town Americana. But in its window hangs a sign which reads: We Have Things You Need. And when a lonely traveling salesman comes looking for something he desperately wants, after normal visiting hours, after night has fallen, he will face a harsh truth among the shelves of Handy’s Pawn and Thrift: the things we want are rarely the things we need. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

It’s end of October 1985 and the crumbling river town of Dubois, Iowa is shocked by the gruesome murder of one of the pillars of the community. Detective David Carlson has no motive, no evidence, and only one lead: the macabre local legend of “Boris Orlof,” a late night horror movie host who burned to death during a stage performance at the drive-in on Halloween night twenty years ago and the teenage loner obsessed with keeping his memory alive. The body count is rising and the darkness that hangs over the town grows by the hour. Time is running out as Carlson desperately chases shadows into a nightmare world of living horrors. On Halloween the drive-in re-opens at midnight for a show no one will ever forget. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

What if you were held captive by your own family? Emma Rawlins has spent the last year a prisoner. The months following her mother's death dragged her father into a paranoid spiral of conspiracy theories and doomsday premonitions. Obsessing him, controlling him, they now whisper the end days are finally at hand. And he doesn’t intend to face them alone. Emma finds herself drugged and dragged to a secluded cabin, the last refuge from a society supposedly due to collapse. Their cabin a snowbound fortress, her every move controlled, but even that isn't enough to weather the end of the world. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing Everything she knows is out of reach, lost beyond a haze of white. There is no choice but to play her father's game while she plans her escape. But there is a force far colder than the freezing drifts. Ancient, ravenous, it knows no mercy. And it's already had a taste...

After Lilura's last mission as assassin she completed her mission to k*ll the notorious Arthuro Maximilliano. She decided to hide herself from anyone. 1 year after, she went into hiding in France for more than a year and gave birth to her a beautiful daughter, and she decided to raise the child on her own. When she recovered after giving birth 2 years later she started her own small company. This is called “L Güzce” that holds the clothing line, and perfume company, she name this after of Lilura's child. This is what Lilura's life was like after her mission for being assassin. She knew that her husband was still looking for her, until she received a letter that she was waiting for her to agree to annul their marriage. —But there was a condition.. Lilura, she need had to return to the Philippines to face their Annulment. But upon returning, many things would happen while Lilura was in the Philippines, and everything she was hiding would come out. How could she hide herself child from her ex-husband how she can deal with the family of her ex husband? Will she be able to hide it until the end or will she just want to let go and give her ex-husband a second chance? Can she love her ex-husband again? Can Mr. Is Maximilliano.. Lilura’s husband who has been hiding from him for a long time or is he still the same as before? Is there nothing he can do? —————————————————————————————— This is the Book 2 from story of LILURA ÁSVALDR | THE ASSASSIN’S COLLABORATION. First you need to read the book 1 bago ang book 2 para mas maintindihan ang flow ng dalawang book. Salamat po!

Sarah Killian is not your average thirty-year-old single woman. Foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, and a text-book-case loner. Also, she is a Professional Serial Killer. But a wrench is thrown into the clockwork of Sarah's comfortable lifestyle when, on her latest assignment, she is forced to take on an apprentice, Bethany—a bubbly, perky, blonde with a severe case of verbal-vomit. In short, Bethany is everything Sarah is not. Will Sarah be able to adjust and work with her new apprentice, or will she break her contract with T.H.E.M. and murder the buxom bimbo? ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

In the quiet of the forest, the darkest fears are born. The people of Dunballan, harbour a dark secret. A secret more terrible than the Beast that stalks the dense forests of Dunballan. A secret that holds David McCavendish, last in a long line of Lairds, in its unbreakable grip. It’s down to Sally, David’s lover, to free David from the sinister clutches of the Beast. But, with the whole town against her, she must ally herself with an ancient woodland force and trace Dunballan’s secret back to its bitter origins. Those origins lie within the McCavendish family history, and a blasphemous heresy that stretches back to the beginning of time. Some truths are too terrible to face, and the darkest of these lie waiting for Sally, in the Quiet Places. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing