Kevin Stillwell

Twelve years ago Matthew "the Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was the number one NFL draft pick. But on the night of the draft, he plummeted from the pinnacle of esteem. Falsely accused of a heinous crime with irrefutable evidence, it seemed in an instant all was lost--his reputation, his career, his freedom, and most devastatingly, ...

Barbara Stager led what seems like a perfect life. And she committed an almost perfect crime.

By all accounts, Stager was a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader in her community in Durham, North Carolina. The police were inclined to believe her story after she "accidentally" shot her husband, Russ, who was a popular high school coach. They became suspicious, though, when they discovered that her previous husband had died in a strangely ...

New York Times #1 Bestseller!

This true crime novel details the experiences of three wealthy Southern families connected through marriage and through murder. The shocking real-life events include obsessive love and bitter custody battles that eventually lead to a bloody climax taking nine lives.

After a vicious assault with a knife and a baseball bat in their home in North Carolina, the wealthy Lieth von Stein lay dead and his wife, Bonnie, near death. The case wasn't going anywhere until police followed a trail leading to von Stein's charming stepson, Chris Pritchard, and his intelligent, nerdy, but drug-using friends at North Carolina State University. Blood Games is a baffling true story of degraded young minds and a son's greed ...

Burl Barer is an Edgar Award–winning author and two-time Anthony Award nominee with extensive media, advertising, marketing, and public relations experience. He has garnered accolades for his creative contributions to radio, television, and print media, and his career has been highlighted in The Hollywood Reporter, London Sunday Telegraph, New York Times, USA Today, Variety, Broadcasting, and Electronic Media, as well as on ABC's Good Morning America. Barer, regarded as one of America's finest investigative journalists, ...

Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography.

Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of ...

What if there were a way to become faster, stronger, smarter, better? To achieve every task you've ever set your mind to? What if you could finally reach your ideal weight, master any language, or kick that one bad habit that's been standing in your way, all at the cost of a chip in your brain. With the advent of a revolutionary neurosurgical procedure, the Chipped Program represents all of the potential that humanity can ...

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
The importance of money in our lives is readily apparent to everyone--rich, poor, and in between. However grudgingly, most of us accept the expression "Money makes the world go round" as a universal truth. We are all aware of the power of money--how it influences our moods, compels us to take risks, and serves as the yardstick of success in societies around the world. Yet because ...

Set in San Francisco and North Carolina, the linked stories in Damn Love introduce characters struggling with love in all its complicated forms, including a young doctor getting over a breakup with the help of a patient, a newly married gay man who reconnects with his estranged mother, a trio of physicists caught in a surprising love triangle, and a soldier who takes secrets with her to the Iraqi desert. Together, these stories report out ...

Is this the end of Carson Reno? Has he finally reached the end of the road - his 'Dead End'? Is this Carson's last adventure? While trying to protect a client for Jack Logan, Carson finds himself in the middle of a family feud - a deadly feud with skeletons And bodies hidden in all the family closets. Murder, blackmail, infidelity, counterfeit money and, of course, the Mafia send Carson in search of ...