Now that he no longer has his widow, Ada, to keep him in check, the late and murderous Horace Carpenter manifests from a gaseous, dark entity into human form at the Old Mortuary, intent on wreaking havoc on all around him. But what is his plan exactly? While Emily is terrified of going anywhere near the Old Mortuary to take on the role Ada has foreseen for her, and a disenfranchised cult called 'The Sisterhood of the Zodiac' heads his way, can Horace pull off a level of destruction that will satisfy even him?

Revenge, something we all crave at some point in our lives... fortunately for the world, we don't often do anything about it. Here's a fascinating set of stories about people who did do something about it, horribly, fatally, bloodily... it's a great read - as all Thirteen anthologies are - and the next time someone offends you, it will be one way of getting your own back, imagining them caught up in one of these horror stories!

Chloe’s sister Marnie is murdered by her husband Joey Bennington, he insisted it is an accident and even gets away with the crime. Following the funeral, Joey disappears with his three-year-old daughter, Becky, and Chloe makes it her personal mission to find Becky and avenge her sister. It turns out finding Joey and Becky are two very different things. Joey shows up when Chloe’s father dies and again when her mother dies, lurking around with ill intent. Years later, through a detective agency, Chloe finds Becky in Florida. Marnie left Becky a huge life insurance policy, now worth over a million dollars—but nothing is simple or safe when Joey is around. He insists he deserves the cash, and so begins a battle to the death between two very tough families. Soon, Becky’s husband and young children become targets, and the game of survival takes them deep into the Everglades and into their darkest nightmares. Joey isn’t afraid to kill for money, so Becky and Chloe have to find a way to fight back. With the help of local police and their own guts and grit, these women will protect their family and get back at the man who started it all by murdering an innocent mother.

"New York Times" bestselling author Rosenberg probes the heart of the criminal justice system--and the depths of revenge--in the fourth gripping novel featuring Ventura County probation officer Carolyn Sullivan.

What emotion is left once the heart and mind stops caring? Khedlar has an unquenchable thirst for revenge and will stop at nothing to punish those responsible for the murder of his wife and child. No one is safe in his psychopathic path, not even himself. In a warped world of madness and deceit, he makes it his mission to save his daughter's soul which pulls him deeper into the web. This unique, fast paced psychological thriller will horrify and exhilarate your senses all at once. Dawn Vines makes us question what is normality while leaving you wanting to know more. How many fragments of the puzzle were still hidden in the shadows and is Demetrius the only one who knows the untainted truth? Revenge is relentlessly gripping, with an intensely captivating story, a must read that will be impossible to put down and not for the faint hearted.

The honeymoon of Ada, a shy and innocent young girl and Horace, a dashingly handsome, charismatic, mortician, gets off to a rough start. The marriage goes down hill from there. Although the marriage continues to be unconsummated, Ada holds out hope that one day the love she has for her husband will destroy the emotional wall that continues to separate them. Unfortunately, before this happens, her father, a celebrated physician and owner of the local hospital, faces ruin, both financially and legally. It is then that Ada realizes the only reason Horace married her was because of her family's high standing within the local community. That is when all hope of sharing love with her husband vanishes, as he begins abusing her. Having no one to turn to, Ada quietly accepts her husband's abuse, until, after years of living in fear, Horace does the unthinkable. When he takes away her only reason for living, she shes him for what he as become--a monster of the highest order. When she learns the depth of his depravities, she comes to the realization that it is up to her to keep not only herself safe from him, but also any others who might come within his distorted vision. What she decides she must do will surprise most readers, and abhor others. She feels it is her duty to humanity to protect them from the man she once loved. Unfortunately, what she cannot possibly know is, that although she may have saved others from the living man, she has released an even more dangerous evil, his everlasting angered soul.