
Natalie Banks is a best selling and award winning novelist who writes stories from the heart and you can feel it in every word. Her southern roots show through her scenes and her faith in life sings on the pages. When she's not writing, she spends time on the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina daydreaming about new and exciting stories to share with her readers.
They thought they buried the truth. But the truth remembers.
After a decade away, Madison Andrews is forced to return to the hometown she’s spent years trying to forget. Her mother is gone. Her past is calling. And so is Imogen, the former best friend who once held Madison’s life in the palm of her hand. Back then, it was always the three of them, Imogen, Madison, and Olivia. Beautiful, popular and untouchable. The kind of girls everyone envied. Until everything fell apart.
Now, it’s been years since Olivia vanished after a party in the woods, leaving behind only rumors, silence, and the sharp sting of unfinished questions. Madison told herself she didn’t remember what happened that night. But back in her childhood home, surrounded by echoes of the girls they used to be, fragments of the truth begin to surface.
As Madison pieces together the memories she buried, she finds herself caught in the same twisted triangle that shattered them all once before. And this time, it’s pulling her under. Imogen still lives in the same town, wears the same perfect smile, and acts like nothing ever happened. But something did. And Madison and Imogen aren’t the only ones who remember. Because secrets never stay buried for long. And someone has been waiting. Ready to make them pay.
Between Friends is a haunting psychological thriller about girlhood, guilt, and the terrifying weight of silence.
Some friendships end. Others never let you go.
Some neighborhoods are there to keep you safe. This one wants to keep you prisoner.
Kate Harris thought River Falls was her family’s ticket to a fresh start: a pristine, exclusive gated community with perfect lawns, friendly neighbors, and all the luxuries they could ever dream of. But beneath the glossy veneer of this suburban paradise lies something sinister.
At first, it’s the rules: odd, overbearing, and enforced with unsettling precision. Then, the smiles of her neighbors start to feel hollow, their eyes too watchful. As whispers of disappearances reach her ears, Kate begins to uncover a darker truth about River Falls, one that the town’s leaders will do anything to protect.
Trapped by iron gates and suffocating secrecy, Kate must navigate a web of lies, betrayal, and mounting danger to save her children and herself. With time running out and no one to trust, she’s about to discover just how far she’ll go to protect her family, and what it truly means to be free.
Welcome to River Falls... where escape isn’t an option.
Sarah Avery had spent years carefully re-constructing her broken life back together, after her husband Thomas, the love of her life, had drowned 14 years earlier. When suddenly she comes face to face with a man named Collin, who is Thomas’ exact look-alike, on the streets of Wilmington, NC. She convinces herself that he is somehow, actually Thomas, come back to her. Yet in response, he has no recognition of her or their life together. However, the attraction between the two of them is powerful and immediate. But, even as Sarah finds herself falling in love with Collin, she still is haunted by questions about his identity and the secret guilt she carries over Thomas’ death. And little does she know, Collin himself, holds some shocking secrets of his own, that threaten to destroy everything they have together.
Grief has a way of unraveling even the strongest bonds, and Juliette Bennett has already lost too much. Still reeling from a tragedy that spiraled her into darkness, Juliette feels her husband slipping away too. Determined to reclaim what remains of their love, she plans an escape to a remote cabin in the mountains, where it will be just the two of them and no distractions. Little does she know, the wilderness has plans of its own. When disaster strikes, Juliette finds herself alone, stranded on a rugged mountain, with no one to rely on but herself. As her past haunts her and survival tests her every limit, Juliette must decide whether she will succumb to the pain of the past, or make a choice that will change her life forever.
Tragedy strikes the life of Claire DuPont when her husband of nine years is killed in a train accident on his way home from work, leaving her alone with two small children. One morning, six months later, she awakes to find him alive and there with her in the house, like he had never been gone. With her head spinning she picks up her phone only to see the date is actually three months before the accident ever occurred. Bewildered but grateful, she writes it off as a very vivid, bad dream. But as time goes on, she realizes that events are unfolding exactly the way they did in her dream. Racing against time, she desperately tries to change the inevitable but finds herself helpless to change anything. Unwilling to give up, she vows to stop at nothing to save her husband before it’s too late.
Straight laced Anna Walker finds herself in a steamy extramarital affair with a noir film photographer Alec Prentice. He's irresistible, drawing her into his world of seduction. But soon, his bad boy ways and her guilty conscious consume her and push her to end the affair. Not long after, she frighteningly realizes she is being stalked. As she desperately continues her attempt to keep the affair a secret, the stalking escalates. Even when it begins to jeopardize her safety, she refuses to get help for fear of her secret being exposed. Forcing her to take matters into her own hands, leading her down a path of deception and violence. As a hurricane bears down on the coastal city of Wilmington North Carolina, she finds herself alone with a gun clutched to her chest, as she faces her stalker and his terrifying secret. Leaving her fighting for her life and for everything that ever mattered.
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