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From Under the Bed
The real estate agent told Ashley and Jonah the house was in one of the safest neighborhoods in suburban Northeast Ohio—the perfect home to raise their infant daughter, Ilana. The agent hadn’t lied; she just didn’t know. One warm night in July, after hours of Ashley not answering his calls, Jonah returns home from the studio to find a dark house, a playpen left out, toys scattered in the backyard, and Ashley and Ilana missing.
A former employee with a grudge, a landscaper with a gruesome past, and even Ashley’s own sister—with whom Jonah had once had an affair—are all suspects. A suspicious text points Jonah to his estranged father—the self-proclaimed prophet of a cultish Christian church. When Jonah becomes the main suspect, his Deaf friend, Alessandro, discovers the truth. In the end, Jonah finally finds his faith, but it’s poisoned with rage as he learns the true power of forgiveness as a weapon.
From Under the Bed is Local Woman Missing meets Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, targeting fans of Lisa Jewell, Charlie Donlea, Mary Kubica, and Benjamin Stevenson in a 78,000-word twisty suspense thriller with strong Deaf characters set in the present day.
The Point of Impact
Two deaths, two loves, one way to go.
Johnny Bouter has less than three seconds to live. The Point of Impact chronicles Johnny’s last moments as he falls from a balcony nine stories high in this fast paced thriller by Joseph Toto.
Johnny plummets to the ground as time begins to slow. The faster he falls, the slower time becomes until it reaches a near stop. He finds a doorway into Heaven, but instead of the Heaven that he expected, Johnny finds a world running rampant with demons swallowing lost souls.
What goes through a person’s mind in the moments just before death? What remains after horror abruptly scrapes away all of life’s pretense within the time span of one deep breath? How much time do you have left?
Johnny makes his way through Heaven in a desperate search for salvation, while in the real world his body inches closer and closer to doom at the point of impact.
Click below for the terrible story of why The Point of Impact was never submitted for representation.
