Julia Deane

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

Brenda Baker pursues a stellar career in the stock market business. But when she falls in love with Alex, it leads to unforeseen consequences.

After an elderly woman discovers a mysterious amulet that restores her youth by draining the life from those around her, her caregiver must stop her as an entire town withers in a grotesque battle over renewal and the terror of aging.

Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when he goes for his annual check up, things go wrong. Someone is tampering with his computer files and all his tests are bad. He is admitted to the hospital and dragged off to the county hospital late that night for a brain operation that he does not need. His electronic records are changing. He gets cable he did not order and then his girlfriend is murdered in his car. Someone is trying to ruin the life of Cooper, and he has to find out who and why before the police catch up to him.

A scientist is testing a demonic drug on people in his secret lab. A cop and a female reporter try to stop him.

A shy mail clerk becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a man involved with the beautiful neighbor he is obsessed with.

New owners of a small-town building discover an ancient secret in the walls of its basement.