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Mutilated bodies emerge from the Boston bay…
And the FBI is counting on her…
But will the haunting motive of the killer destroy her life?


FBI Special Agent Alex Troutt was living the American dream. Until the violent crash.

As Alex begins her daunting quest to uncover the black spots on her memory, a dead body is found in a murky Boston bay. What she finds doesn't make sense.

And that’s when Alex must confront old truths and buried lies. Has her nightmare just begun?

Packed with heart-stopping suspense, vivid characters, and a twisty plot, AT BAY will leave you breathless and longing for more.
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Three flashes of light illuminate a dark sky. An unspeakable evil devours its prey.

The shimmering view of the sun-drenched ocean can often be nothing more than a mirage. For Alex Troutt, a trip back home for a much-needed summer vacation proves only one thing: greed rules. But how it takes root could destroy her world.

​Fueled by the lust of power and money, the shadow of death envelopes her seaside hometown, including those closest to Alex. But as disconnected investigations converge into one focal point, Alex will stop at nothing to blow the entire crime ring straight to hell—even if she has to make the ultimate sacrifice…her life.

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A desperate attempt to survive, or the plot of a twisted killer?
Bombs rip through the Boston Marathon crowd.

A loved one clings to life -- Alex won't sleep until the culprit is found. Can she push her way on to the task force?

Rumors swirl, but hard evidence is as elusive as an icy glacier. With her FBI team wrapped up in the formal investigation Alex pulls in her newest confidante. Ozzie and Alex team up to quickly separate fact from fiction. But what seems right could be so very wrong.

A brutal murder and robbery. Where is this hunt taking them? Could it be nothing more than a cover?

Secrets from the past come to light, and that's when all bets are off. You think it's over, but it isn't. Not by a long shot.

The brains behind this crime aren't from this world, and Alex's family may not be able to escape the carnage.
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Will Alex survive the onslaught?
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When obsession crosses that thin line…

The crime scene was similar to the others -- but was Alex staring at something even more disturbing than the work of a noted serial killer?

Alex and her partner, Nick, piece together a convoluted puzzle. But how many pieces are missing?

The deaths, brutal and violent beyond belief, show a pattern. And then another pattern. Is this the work of a copycat killer? If only it were that easy to figure out.

The video hits. It rocks Alex's core -- her future forever altered. She pushes forward…only because the dead have no voice.

Nothing will stop her from ending this obsession. 

Will Alex live to see the next day?
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The pursuit of the truth. The hunt for a life.

A body is found in Lowell, the human damage, once again, inconceivable. Hours later, another strike.

Pushing heartache aside, Alex immerses herself in the investigation. But with every new clue comes a new twist.


​Once the killer makes it personal, Alex is left with no other option—she must confront the person who destroyed her life to try to cease the vicious murders.

​And when she finally learns the killer’s end game, every second counts if she has any hope of stopping the brutal killings.
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The hunt will end. But will Alex? 

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A little boy makes his first kill—and he likes it. He is cunning, charming, and without remorse. 
 
He is a sociopath.
 
As boy turns to man, what lies inside takes root. He will make a mark on Boston unlike any other, and FBI Special Agent Alex Troutt must figure out how to stop him.
 
But when she and her close-knit team move in closer, the stakes become much higher as the case takes on a more personal tone. It’s a frantic race to stop a manipulative killer before his web of deceit and destruction escalates into a blood bath of haunting proportions.
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The slayings are calculated and cold-blooded, but it's deceit that has Alex staring at the face of death.

Extortion, bombings, and assassinations have created fear inside and outside of the beltway -- all while being nearly invisible. Alex goes off the books to try to stop a group that has re-defined modern-day terrorism.

Alex has no choice but to pull in Ozzie -- they only find more death. A young woman with so much hope…two bullets in the back of her head. How does she connect to all the other deaths in cities across the world?

Alex can only see one common thread: a blood-thirsty quest to obtain control. And that control will kill hundreds of thousands to pad the pockets of the group's leadership.

Shots fly. Alex and Ozzie try to escape death. But how do all the pieces fit together? They can't. Not unless there's a betrayal that will turn Alex's world upside down -- just before she's shot in the face.

You think you'll identify the Judas. But no one can predict how treacherous the mind becomes.
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It's the perfect system -- for the rich and powerful.

But who has the guts to take them down?
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All it takes is a slight shift in the tectonic plates and two thousand miles later, a tidal wave engulfs the Big Island.

This time, the deluge is in the form of greed and treachery.

And many in the land of paradise will do anything to keep it hidden under the surface.

But when severed limbs start rolling onto the shore, Alex has another thing in mind -- even when her heart is gutted.

Despite the shock of a lifetime, Alex won't stop until someone pays the ultimate price.

Will she be destroyed in the process?
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A 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal winner!

If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”

FBI Agent Alex Troutt has no intentions of falling for anything. Apparently, neither do the bad guys, as the Boston area is once again targeted by extremists. Boston Strong of just a few years ago is now Boston on Edge. And this time, the targets are men of the cloth—priests.
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Bloody Sunday. The IRA. The movement toward peace. Wounds of decades ago have reopened, bleeding all over Boston. As she pieces together the puzzle, Alex begins to wonder just how innocent her colleague really is. It’s almost too much for her to fathom.

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Thirty years after losing a parent to a hit-and-run drunk driver, FBI agent Alex Troutt finally confronts the killer--the same man who just murdered the Boston police chief.

And what Alex pulls from him shatters her core.

Armed with little more than hope and a shred of decades-old evidence, Alex chases a memory from her past, hoping that she'll find the mother she never really had. A fanatical religious cult has created its own society. Desperate to right a thirty-year wrong, Alex must out-think and out-duel everyone in her path to right a thirty-year wrong.

​Will Alex’s quest to find the truth destroy her life all over again?
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The voice was disguised. The agonizing message was not.

Alex gets a call no parent should ever receive. It's a dagger to her heart. But she can't afford to stop.

Forced to carry out the wishes of the captors, Alex is threatened at every turn. It defiles her, but she'll do anything to get her daughter back. Will it work?

An Amber Alert in San Antonio -- and Ivy Nash intercepts the assailant. But the story behind the story grabs her by the throat. How could a mother carry out such an act? Or is this simply a custody issue?

Two paths intersect, and neither Alex nor Ivy back down. They must save the lives of these young girls.

It all has to stop. One life at a time. One daughter at a time. Who will make it out alive?

But in the end, could there be one shining moment?

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A power that few have possessed.

And a secret that will unleash it.

He has a plan. He watches it unfold. And one by one, three lives crumble into dust.

Flares of desperation divert the focus -- can Alex see through the fog of deception?

The killing season is just getting started. It's an evil too sadistic to fathom. Is there any way that Alex, Ozzie, and Ivy come out of this the same?

As a thirty-year-old secret emerges, the ties that bind people will be redefined.

Blood never had greater meaning for three people.

But is there enough trust to survive the terror?
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