Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat -- blindfolded -- with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?

Whoever said opposites attract must have been talking about Kate Marlow and Barrett Fox. Her life's work was bringing people together, and his was tearing them apart. The pretty wedding consultant and the sexy divorce lawyer should have hated each other on sight, and - well, they did. But from that first moment, when Cupid's arrow struck the unsuspecting Barrett - literally there was something between them that just wouldn't go away. There was no way it would work, of course. They both knew that. She was a romantic as they came, born to wear white lace and to carry a bouquet of roses with baby's breath, while he'd learned the hard way not to believe in love - or much of anything else. It was impossible, completely impossible, wasn't it?

Detective Liam Kastor assumed he'd never see gorgeous Sloane Colton again after high school... right? So when the lovely lawyer suddenly shows up in town years later, Liam's floored. Newly divorced, Sloane is determined to make a life for herself and her toddler daughter. But when deadly threats show up on Sloane's doorstep, Liam is determined to find out who's after her - and why.

"Empty nester Merry Winters loves three things: Christmas, crafting and her family. To regain purpose and joy, Merry hits the road to a Christmas vendor event with her furry sidekick Ebenezer in her new mobile crafting sleigh, aka an RV. But it soon turns into the nightmare before Christmas when Merry unwraps her Scrooge of an ex-husband's body in one of the RV's compartments. Add to that his missing winning lottery ticket believed to be stashed somewhere in the RV, leading the homicide detective and Merry's stepdaughter to believe Merry is the one whodunit. With visions of prison dancing in her head, will Merry be able to solve this Christmas calamity before she's locked away?"--Amazon website.

Time is up. Earth is collapsing. Eight billion people and countless other living things will die. Bridgers Infinity Fowler and Desmond Weaver have one last chance to save a handful of refugees. And one last chance to have a life together. Earthquakes and storms threaten to destroy humanity’s last hope—the SafeTrek bridging facility. With the building literally collapsing around them, Infinity, Desmond, and a small group of refugees manage to bridge out. Their destination: an alternate world similar to their own. A place that will be safe. But something goes wrong, and they find themselves in a world unlike any they could have imagined. Their attempt to start a new life becomes a struggle to survive in a place where primeval violence rules, where nothing is familiar and everything is potentially deadly. For the refugees, this is a one-way trip. There’s no going home. To survive, they must learn to work together. But something extraordinary exists here, something that could turn them all against each other. Something that could destroy the bond between Infinity and Desmond.

As Earth’s destruction approaches, bridgers Infinity Fowler and Desmond Weaver wrestle with the fact that eight billion people are about to die. While on the road to see Desmond’s mother one last time, they witness chaos like nothing they’ve ever seen.Infinity and Desmond must fight their way back to SafeTrek to fulfill their primary duty—saving the human species. Their next mission: bridge 718 civic leaders to an alternate world. They'll then have thirty-six hours to help the refugees find their place in this new world, after which the bridgers will return to SafeTrek—assuming the building hasn't collapsed.

Heart to blood, muscle to bone, tourist flesh above my own. It’s the bridgers’ directive: risk your own life to save tourists bridging to alternate worlds. Bridger Infinity Fowler has no qualms about the directive. Risking death is just what bridgers do. But now the earth is dying. Bridgers have a new directive—save as many humans as possible, even if some must be sacrificed in the process. Sacrificing lives is not what Infinity signed up for. Desmond Weaver, determined to help save the human species, has volunteered to be Infinity’s partner. He has ingenuity and grit, but is this enough to make it as a bridger? Their mission: bridge 718 refugees to a new world and establish a colony. If the world is occupied, avoid conflict and learn to coexist. Once bridging begins, there is no turning back. The new world is indeed occupied, but not by humans, and avoiding conflict isn’t so easy. As violence erupts, Infinity and Desmond realize they may have only one hope of saving the colony—sacrificing refugees they have sworn to protect.

Infinity Fowler has been fighting all her life. As a child, she had to fight for survival. Then she fought professionally. But when humans obtained the technology to bridge to alternate versions of Earth, she saw a chance for a new life. She signed up to become a bridger--an elite fighter and survival expert who protects tourists bridging to alternate worlds. Desmond Weaver is a tourist making a last-ditch effort to complete his PhD in evolutionary biology. He has booked the excursion of a lifetime, a data collection mission to a vastly different version of Earth. If he fails, his career will be over. Infinity is Desmond's assigned trainer and bridger. She is one of the best, willing to die protecting tourists. And also willing to kill. When it's time to bridge, Desmond and his two college roommates feel well prepared. But they aren't. Naked and weaponless, on an extraordinary world teeming with lethal predators, the team becomes entangled in a life-and-death struggle more terrifying than anything they could ever have imagined.

Wraps up season 7 of the long-running series while introducing new characters.

Investigation of serial killings leads Bay Winchester to a local college where an off-kilter cell phone game is taking over the populace.