Böcker av W Lawrence Johnston

Hearts Unraveling is the story of Jack and Lisa, two childhood friends growing up in a small town and falling in love, only to have their lives pull them in very different directions after college. Landing a high profile position at a top legal firm in St. Louis, Lisa falls in love, meeting the man of her dreams. Jack's career takes him to New York City, soon finding success, love, and marriage, with their first child on the way. As Lisa's legal career continues to grow, leading her well on her way to making partner, a man enters her world, watching and waiting in the shadows.

A young boy named Kevin, suddenly finds himself on a new adventure, torn between leaving close friends and the only home he has ever known as he goes on road trip across the country from Pennsylvania to Colorado with his family. As a dark cloud rises over them, a rift grows as they feel the pain of being forced to leave their old life and home behind. His older brother constantly beating on him and a baby sister both boys partially blame for their mom's recent health issues, deep down his mom hopes the trip will bring them closer. All the time, unaware that a desperate criminal follows them, bent on finding a treasure of gold that he is convinced they know about and know its hidden location. Constantly watching for ways to force his way in, they unknowingly stop along different roadside attractions and stay on back roads, increasing his opportunities to strike. Their only hope may be a boy named Luke that Kevin meets on a mountain near a summer cabin, a mysterious boy with a bear close by.

Working as a homicide inspector in San Francisco, Jake is thrown into the middle of a series of murders, a serial killer is slowly and quietly killing victims in the San Francisco Bay area. The first few appearing more as heart attacks than murder. Slowly, they track down different suspects. A police officer that shows up at the first few crime scenes, sure they are murders before the medical examiner even finishes examining the bodies. A nurse that has easy access to weapons and poisons used in the killings. A female executive that directly benefits from the first murder and had issues in the past with several victims. With each crime, the murders get stranger. Poisons, spears of ice, piranha, and more. Unlike most serial killers, the killer changes methods from murder to murder as they search for some common thread. All the time, someone in the police force appears to undermine them as a group of terrorists linger in the background, working with the mafia as their destructive plot takes shape.

The fifth book in the Brigid Adventures series. Returning home after a scary adventure in Canada and Montana, an older woman warns Brigid to beware of three witches. Over a month behind in school, possibly needing to repeat the whole school year, suddenly her arch enemies, Darla, Cara and Lisa are helping tutor her to catch up in school. All the while, her best friend will have nothing to do with her. Even stranger, when her mom hears the name Paholainen came to her when playing a game, terror feels her mom's face. As strange events unfold, she wonders who is Paholainen and why is her mom afraid of her. Is she one of the three witches? Are Darla and her two friends the witches the woman warned her about? Or, are the three witches just in reference to a play Lisa talks about. As new friendships grow and new enemies appear, reality and magic seem to collide.

This is a story about a young girl named Brigid, the fourth book in this series. After Brigid reads how Aoife had to flee to the mountains, running away and hiding in caves when people found out about her magic, Brigid trembles. Aoife was not safe until she found a place deep in the woods, hidden from the world. Even her family abandoned her. Hiding her own magical powers for fear of the repercussions if people found out, she promises herself to never use them again. She only slips a few times, never realizing an evil person is watching, building a plan to abduct her and control her powers. Suddenly, as people discover her magical powers, she finds herself thrown into a whirlwind adventure, lost and wounded deep in the Canadian Rockies as killers search for her. Her only salvation may be strangers coming to her rescue as she strangles with her own magical powers.

The third book in the Brigid series. Rescued after being castaway on a deserted island for months after a plane crash, Brigid struggles a little to return to normal life. She finds it strange that one day she is lost on an island, nearly starved and scavenging for food, and the next, she is back home. Slowly returning to normal life, the birth of her colt seems to help. Then suddenly he is stolen away. Finding out Marley had been kidnapped, a leprechaun that helped save her when she was lost on a deserted island, she is forced into a quest to find him as strange things start happening around her. Suddenly, a man is stalking her, others lurking in the shadows trying to destroy her.

Coming down with a high fever when she is just four, Brigid wakes up in the hospital in a strange, silent world, the breaking fever taking her hearing with it. At first, she thinks it is a game, her parents not even realizing. She finds simple explanations like a broken television with no sound, a new silent vacuum cleaner and her parents playing a game, moving their lips without talking. When a mischievous fairy lures her out into the street, a car barely missing her, an unnoticed honking car and barking dog throws her parents into a reality of a daughter that cannot hear. Running from specialist to specialist, flying across the ocean, a stark reality sets in. However, while her parents are nearly in a panic, their daughter just goes on playing, dancing as she watches people of television dancing, playing with her toys and finding a world without distraction. Finding herself in a world of magical creatures as they move into farm country, a horse brings her many more adventures, as her parents and friends learn to communicate with her through hand gestures and expressions. Suddenly, lured to an old, wooden dock, her world changes forever once again.