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In every heartbeat, there is a story. In every glance, a memory. When Love Remembers is a collection of short stories that explore the infinite shapes of the human heart: its desire, its longing, its ache, and its quiet triumphs. These tales are not of perfect love. They are of love that burns and fades, love that wounds and heals, love that clings and lets go.

The serial killer Gregg Thorton was introduced to you in my short story "Serial Family Man", giving you an insight to the man who spent 44 years murdering over 20 people. In this new story, Gregg Thorton will confess like he never has before.

Step into Burrington, a town where time twists, shadows linger, and Halloween never truly ends. In The Hollowed Hours: Five Mind-Bending Tales of Horror and Suspense from Burrington, five chilling short stories plunge you into a night unlike any other. October 31, 1826, when children vanish, restless spirits roam, and the dead reclaim the streets they once called home.

Why Hearts Remember is a poetic journey through the raw, beautiful, and often unbearable ways the human heart loves and survives. From the first spark of infatuation to the ashes of loss, each poem captures the echoes of connection that refuse to fade.

Before Burrington existed, there was Silas Glaston; a man of ambition, wealth, and unshakable certainty. Born into privilege, raised to command, and destined to leave his mark upon the land, Silas sees the world not as it is, but as it should be under his direction. From the gilded halls of his family estate to the polished deck of his ship, he charts a course for greatness, blind to the shadows gathering just beyond the horizon.

But it never stays still. The Shapeshifting Heart, Makitia Thompson traces love through every incarnation: from the spark of first attraction to the slow burn of passion, from the ashes of heartbreak to the quiet reflections that follow. Told through vivid, lyrical poetry and grounded in emotional truth, this collection explores the way love transforms us, consumes us, and refuses to stay one thing for long.

Some books promise healing. This one promises honesty. Because I’m Still Breathing is a poetry collection about survival, about what it means to keep going when the world seems intent on breaking you. From the author of Because I Felt Everything comes over 100 poems that peel back the silence around pain, vulnerability, and the invisible battles we fight alone. These are verses for the nights when breathing feels like an act of defiance, for the mornings when simply existing is a victory.

Some towns vanish from maps. Burrington vanished from time itself. Beck Escarra, an ambitious young filmmaker searching for her breakthrough, stumbles across the story of a forgotten town—a town that doesn’t appear on any GPS, that nobody remembers visiting, and that seems frozen in another century. Determined to uncover the truth, Beck ventures into Burrington and finds herself trapped in a nightmare she cannot escape. The town is alive at night, its residents cursed to relive the same day from 1827.

In this unforgettable and raw collection, It Ended By Beginning unearths the buried emotions we try to forget and confronts the truths we often run from. Across 32 hauntingly honest stories, readers are invited into intimate, visceral worlds shaped by grief, betrayal, envy, pride, justice, and silence. Told through the voice of a lone journalist, a man who prints not just the news but the souls of the people he meets, this collection becomes more than fiction. It becomes memory. A printed hell. A closing door. A mirror.

What does it mean to feel everything and survive it? All the Things I’ve Felt, poet Makitia Thompson explores the full spectrum of human emotion with raw honesty and lyrical beauty. These poems move through love and wonder, heartbreak and grief, resilience and hope. Capturing the quiet truths we often carry in silence. This collection is for anyone who has loved deeply, lost fiercely, broken apart, and found the strength to rise again. Each minute is a reflection of the heart’s hidden language: tender, unflinching, and deeply human.

The blunt and ruthless Cole King is interviewing Michelle Hartmann, a now disgraced lawyer who won her cases through fraud. Michelle began her law career helping the ignored, supporting fairness and moral rightness in the legal system. Until she got a strong desire for power and saw herself above all of the ignored she once pretended to care about. In a harsh and swift motion, Michelle made her switch to become a defence attorney. She wasted no time finding herself a challenging case representing a child killer and paying to prove the innocence of a monster.

She was a beloved teacher. A trusted guardian. A monster hiding in plain sight. From 1988 to 2009, Emily Cannister—kindergarten teacher, community favorite, and secret killer—kidnapped and murdered fifteen children. To the outside world, she was kind and nurturing. But behind closed doors, she was consumed by obsession, delusion, and a twisted longing to claim the children she could never have. In 2012, during her third murder trial, Emily confessed. But her admission raised more questions than it answered.

Criminal Plague deeply dives into who Michelle Hartmann is, what she's done, how it all happened and why she became the woman she is today. The story of an unapologetic, merciless, privileged and now disgraced lawyer.

In the second novel of the 'Choosing to remember' series, Jerome Clarkson takes a swan dive into his past and the trauma he's carried for far too long. Jerome grew up in a very toxic and unloving environment, unable to escape the torture. His mother had him at just 13 and went on to have seven more children, that she took her frustrations out on constantly. Jerome was berated as child for being different and his mother often abused him because she believed that he was gay. From the moment his mother first beat him, Jerome felt the need to please his mother and prove her suspicions to be wrong.

This short story is about Gabrielle Henderson and her pursuit of a luxurious, responsibility free lifestyle that led her to leave everything important behind. Her selfish pursuit left her with six failed marriages and 13 children, all of which she abandoned without a second thought. Gabrielle is ready to come clean about her countless lies and lives, while hoping to one day be lucky enough to find true love through truth. This story is the fourth book in the "through tainted eyes" series and as interesting, if not more than the previous short stories.

Joddelyn Anderson used to spend everyday hiding from her childhood and living under a false identity to escape her painful life. She suffered tremendous loss as a young girl, then allowed herself to be catapulted into fame at only 18 and lost what remained of who she once was. Using that false identity she achieved the fame she had desired and managed to be the star she once never saw herself as.

Gregg Thorton was born with a dark mind and a disorder that would slowly take control over him as the years went on. His dark mind produced anger, he used that anger to inflict pain onto those who he felt weren't up to his standards. At just 6 years old Gregg took a life for the first time, his baby sister and for the next 35 years, Gregg claimed the lives of almost a dozen innocent people. Decades later Gregg is ready to completely confess and finally give families the closure they've been begging for...

This murder mystery involves five friends that decide to go out for a long night of club hopping. But when the night comes to an end, only four friends make it home and a terrible fate was left for the fifth friend. The next morning a gruesome discovery is made and the police have a twisted case on their hands. The friends pin the blame on one another and it's left up to detective Neverson to uncover what truly happened that night. The story follows each friend's experience that night and many obstacles are awaiting the police.