As children, many of us have had dreams and aspirations of what we hoped to achieve in our future. But for some of us, we only hoped that our tortured lives are nothing but a mere dream. However, for Kelly Anderson, this hope is too much to ask because her nightmares are indeed real. As long as she can remember, Kelly had been surrounded by violence and dysfunction. Having a mother who was emotionally unavailable and a father who was a violent alcoholic, it is no wonder Kelly felt abandoned and alone the first time she was raped. But Kelly would soon learn that her only escape from her torture is by death. This is the true story, based on actual events, of a childs struggle to cope with the pain and confusion of physical and sexual abuse. In this disturbing story, you will experience life through the eyes of the victims as well as the victimizers. You will follow Kellys quest to find love, freedom and serenity amid so much turmoil. You will feel Kellys pain and understand what really lies beneath: THE TORTURED SMILE

As children, many of us have had dreams and aspirations of what we hoped to achieve in our future. But for some of us, we only hoped that our tortured lives are nothing but a mere dream. However, for Kelly Anderson, this hope is too much to ask because her nightmares are indeed real. As long as she can remember, Kelly had been surrounded by violence and dysfunction. Having a mother who was emotionally unavailable and a father who was a violent alcoholic, it is no wonder Kelly felt abandoned and alone the first time she was raped. But Kelly would soon learn that her only escape from her torture is by death. This is the true story, based on actual events, of a child's struggle to cope with the pain and confusion of physical and sexual abuse. In this disturbing story, you will experience life through the eyes of the victims as well as the victimizers. You will follow Kelly's quest to find love, freedom and serenity amid so much turmoil. You will feel Kelly's pain and understand what really lies beneath: THE TORTURED SMILE

From the acclaimed author of Sirens, damaged Detective Aidan Waits returns in a mind-bending new thriller that will have everyone asking “Who is the Smiling Man?” Aidan Waits is back on the night shift, the Manchester PD dumping ground for those too screwed-up for more glamorous work. But the monotony of petty crimes and lonesome nights is shattered when he and his partner are called to investigate a break-in The Palace, an immense, empty hotel in the center of the city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. The tags have been cut from his clothes, his teeth have been filed down, and even his fingertips have been replaced… And he is smiling. But as Waits begins to unravel the mystery of the smiling man, he becomes a target. Someone wants very badly to make this case disappear, and as their threats escalate, Aidan realizes that the answers may lie not only with the wealthy families and organized criminals connected to the Palace, but with a far greater evil from his own past. To discover the smiling man’s identity, he must finally confront his own.

An impoverished novelist suddenly inherits a vast fortune from a distant relation but unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil when he accepts the help of the aristocratic Prince Lucio Rimanez, who graciously offers to show him how to spend his money and fulfill all his earnest desires.

The story takes place in London in 1895, and the Devil is on the loose. Britain is all but totally corrupt. Everything and everyone is up for sale, and it takes a special kind of moral courage to resist the Devil's seductions.

Detective David Alix faces once again a serial killer, as bodies turn up in bags. Each corpse wears what's known as the "Glasgow smile", a freakish ear-to-ear grimace resulting from small cuts made at the corner of the mouth before the victim was tortured. One after one, the bodies are found. Tortured, killed... and then something strange. Weird items are found on the bodies: An iron crown, spiked upon a skull. A piece of chalk where the heart was supposed to be. Alix can't decipher the meaning of these symbolic objects. He puts them on his whiteboard to study them further. What do they mean? As more bodies show up, the number of symbols grows. Then suddenly, a breakthrough. And a long list of future victims. Can Alix and his team figure out the hidden meaning of the symbols, and find the killer, before he brutally exterminates every person on his list? Get "Smile of Death" to find out today.