Desperate for attention, a nerdy loner dials a suicide prevention line, only to reach a counselor with a twisted hobby for pushing callers to end it.
After losing her dream job and descending into culinary obsession, an out-of-work photographer channels her hunger and rage into a deadly dating spree-turning oysters, fine dining, and food porn into tools of seduction, revenge, and murder.
At a group meeting for recovering addicts, not everyone is telling the full truth about their reasons for attending. As each participant takes part, the truth of their pasts and experiences become disturbingly clear as each tries to benefit from the session for very different reasons.
A former Bay City cop tries to keep his failing P. I. business alive, and his loyal assistant employed, by finding and returning a piece of very expensive jewelry for a fabulously wealthy and beautiful client. She's the first client he's had in a long time but Philip discovers that there is far more to her story than she told him. Most puzzling of all, the police don't want him to follow this case or the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of his late wife. The deeper he goes into this case, the clearer it becomes that everyone with whom he comes in contact has a secret.
Despite warnings of a serial killer on the loose, Felicity attends an open frat party that her friends are throwing. But her fun night will go horribly awry when she's pursued by a shady and creepy man.
Armed with only her raw instincts and physical ability to push her beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara Croft makes her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.