One Person's Grief is another Person's Ammunition Special FBI Agent Emily Slate is good at her job. So good, in fact, she's one of the youngest agents to ever run a sting operation on a multi-state kidnapping ring, centered right in Washington D.C. But when tragedy strikes Emily's personal life, it throws everything else out of balance, putting her in the middle of an impossible situation: take a leave of absence and let everything she's worked for fall apart, or forge ahead with the emotional weight of her husband's death weighing on her. The choices Emily makes here will have far reaching consequences for her future.

A strange box is unearthed deep in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains. What’s discovered inside will rock a small town to its core. FBI Special Agent Emily Slate is no stranger to tragedy. After losing her husband three months ago, then botching the biggest case of her career, she’s barely hanging on to the only job she’s ever wanted. But a new case in the mountains of northern Virginia might just be her one chance to redeem herself. Emily arrives in the town of Stillwater to find the body of a woman with her eyes sewn shut, crammed inside a box half the size of a casket. The only problem is, no one knows who this woman is, and no one has reported her missing. As Emily begins to unravel the layers of this complex case, it becomes clear the woman’s savage murder wasn’t unique. She’ll have to risk everything if she wants to get to the bottom of the mystery, and stop the killer from claiming their next victim. But what she doesn’t know is that an even more sinister secret lurks at the root of these murders. One which puts Emily herself in the crosshairs. This could be Emily’s finest moment, or her last. Eye See You, Agent Slate. Secrets are meant to stay buried. Better turn back before you find yourself among them.

When a federal judge’s daughter goes missing without a trace, it will be up to recently-reinstated FBI agent Emily Slate to find her. Only Emily doesn’t realize what dangers lurk at the edges of this unique case. Special Agent Emily Slate is a woman on the hunt. After returning home from the town of Stillwater, she’s more haunted than ever. Ghosts she thought she’d laid to rest have suddenly reared their heads, and the only person who can answer her questions has disappeared. Meanwhile, a Federal Judge’s daughter is reported missing and it’s up to Emily to find her. As she dives into the case, she discovers a clever and twisted mind working against her and every minute that passes could mean it’s too late for his victims. Emily will need all the help she can get if she hopes to find the person responsible and bring them to justice. And if doing so means bending the rules just so no more people get hurt, she can live with that. One, two, three, You’ll never find me. Try as you might, I am beyond the light.

When FBI Agent Emily Slate discovers a series of fires are being used to cover up the murder of firefighters, she’ll need all her skills as an investigator to flush out the killer. A string of arson cases brings Emily to the historic city of Charleston right as she’s in the middle of trying to find the woman who killed her husband. Her personal investigation will have to wait, however, because the local community is on edge, having already lost two firefighters in these tragedies. But before she can get very far, more blazes erupt throughout the city, causing a panic within the ranks. In each one, the victim is burned alive, from both the inside and out. And at each scene, a strange symbol remains in the rubble, leaving Emily to believe they’re working with a sick and twisted individual who has their sights set on something even bigger. With the number of fires increasing by the day, and a city in panic, Emily must race against the clock to uncover the killer before they burn the entire city down with their rage.

Special Agent Emily Slate has seen her fair share of death ever since joining the FBI. But never anything like this… Emily’s most recent case brings her to a sleepy New York town to investigate the gruesome death of a fellow FBI agent. Except when she arrives, Emily discovers this was no home invasion gone wrong. This was a calculated kill, undertaken by a disturbed and brutal individual. As Emily begins her investigation, the trail leads to a local author, who the killer is using as inspiration for his kills; copying details from the author’s books as templates on how to kill his victims. As the bodies pile up and the danger grows ever closer, Emily begins to suspect the author herself may be the killer’s ultimate target. But just as Emily thinks she has a handle on things, her own husband’s killer surfaces with a warning for Emily. One that will turn everything she knows upside down… They say the pen is mightier than the sword. But the blade is far sharper than the pen...

A shot rings out, piercing the night… Following her return from a case that has turned her world upside down, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself sidelined once more because of circumstances beyond her control. Instead of focusing on the investigation that could lead to the woman who killed her husband, Emily is ordered to keep her distance, and assigned a murder in a small Chesapeake town. But when Emily arrives with newly-minted Special Agent Coll, they find themselves in the middle of a power struggle between two law enforcement departments, both accusing the other of improper conduct. And in the middle of it, a body that seems to have no answers. As Emily and Agent Coll examine what on the surface looks to be a random killing, they soon find dark desires are driving their killer. And when a second body is found, Emily realizes nothing about this case is by chance. But when she discovers a new revelation about her husband, Emily will find herself ripped between her duty to her job and her duty to the man she still loves. The killer is out there, and they haven’t missed their target yet.

“Don’t make me ask twice.” After coming to terms with her husband’s death, Special FBI agent Emily Slate thought she’d finally be able to move on with her life. But when the assassin who has been hunting her shows up on her front door with a gun in her hand, Emily knows it’s far from over. It seems the assassin has been betrayed by the same Organization who hired her, and must now rely on Emily to help her enact her revenge. But when Emily refuses, the assassin raises the stakes, putting Emily’s personal life in danger and giving her no choice but to comply. In order to take down the Organization that’s been plaguing her the last eight months, Emily will need to track down the whereabouts of a US Representative’s missing daughter. If Emily can find her, then her captors will lead them back to the Organization and Emily will be done with this once and for all. But Emily knows she can’t trust the woman who murdered her husband. And as the consequences of her actions begin to unfold, Emily will discover the Organization is a lot closer than she suspects. And if she manages to catch up to them, she’ll be faced with an impossible choice. Better hurry, Emily, before it’s too late. For everyone.

It’s All Come Down to This… Following the massive revelations about her family and the Organization that killed her husband, Special Agent Emily Slate had hoped she was finally on the right track to take them all down and finally find the answers she needed. But due to the fallout from her actions regarding the same Organization, Emily has been relegated back to desk duty, and is given a new she’s being transferred to a new office and will need to start all over again. Fortunately, before her transfer goes through, a new case comes in, one that’s suited to her particular talents. A teenage boy has been brutally murdered, mutilated and staged, and Emily’s new boss wants her to take a look before she’s sent off somewhere else. Except, when Emily dives into the details of the case, nothing seems to make sense. The evidence isn’t lining up, and she can’t make heads nor tails of who could have done this. All she knows is, if she doesn’t do everything she can to solve this case, she’ll be forced to move and leave everything and everyone she loves behind. It’s only when she makes a startling revelation that Emily realizes the true motives behind this heinous crime. And they will wreck her to her core. She will find herself alone with the greatest threat she’s ever faced. And there’s no guarantee she’ll make it out alive.

The Past Never Stays Buried. Fresh off exposing the biggest security breach in the history of the FBI, Special Agent Emily Slate has come to terms with her husband’s death. But before she can enjoy some peace of mind for once, a mysterious letter arrives in her dead mother’s handwriting. Unwilling to entertain it as anything but a bad joke, she dismisses it in favor of a new case. But no sooner have Emily and Zara arrived in a quaint skiing town in New Hampshire before they realize they’re dealing with a twisted mind. A killer takes a new victim every Saturday night, staging them in a gruesome manner only for the bodies to be found days later. Each victim is from a different nearby town and the killer shows no hint of who could be next. Emily and Zara will have to face a near-insurmountable number of obstacles if they want to get to the truth behind these murders. And when they discover the truth, Emily will find herself at a crossroads she’s never faced before. Will she stop the killer at any cost, or allow them to finish what they started, even though it’s against everything sworn to uphold?

You never know what’s hiding behind your walls. Special Agent Emily Slate is a woman on a mission. Someone is sending her letters written in her dead mother’s handwriting, and she’s not about to stop until she finds out why. But when she receives a mysterious phone call from town where she grew up, Emily doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence. After all, where better to start tracking down the person who wrote the letters than in her own hometown? Except, when she arrives, she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. Initially a suspect, eventually she learns that the body of a missing seventeen-year-old girl was found in the walls of what used to be her childhood home. Not only that, but the victim was the sister of Emily’s one-time best friend. With an entire town on edge, Emily isn’t willing to leave the investigation up to the local cops. And as the secrets surrounding the girl’s death begin to unravel, Emily finds herself in the crosshairs of a dangerous killer—one who has operated unchecked for over twenty years. Will she be able to find out who buried a body in the walls of her old home before anyone else goes missing? Or will the killer catch up with her first? It all comes back to The Girl in the Wall.

Boom. Fresh off her explosive return to her hometown, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself facing her worst the possibility of losing her best friend. Agent Zara Foley, Emily’s ride or die, has disappeared during an undercover assignment. Determined to stop at nothing to find her, Emily learns Zara was infiltrating a known domestic terrorist cell, one who had recently procured a large cache of explosives. Undeterred, and against her boss’s wishes, she joins the team tracking the terrorists in hopes that it will lead them back to Zara. With the clock ticking, Emily must overcome her personal demons and stop butting heads with everyone else on the team if she wants some real answers. But when a series of explosions begin rocking major American cities, Emily will find herself with no one to trust as she tries to uncover the identity of the terrorist a man calling himself Simon Magus. Will Emily find Zara and stop Simon from enacting his final plan before it’s too late? Or will she end up in the cinders, like all the rest? Find out in His Final Act.

Sometimes the scars we can’t see are the ones that run the deepest. Fresh off barely stopping a plot to derail the world’s economy, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself faced with a new and strange a body found drained of all its blood in a small Louisiana town. The local police can’t seem to make heads or tails of it and Emily’s boss insists this is the perfect case for her, despite her desire to find the person continuing to send her letters claiming they’re from her dead mother. But when Emily arrives to begin her investigation, without her ride-or-die fellow Agent Zara Foley to boot, she discovers superstition embedded deep in the small community of Bellefleur. Superstition which only grows when a second body is discovered. Emily has never had to face a supernatural killer before, though everyone keeps insisting that’s what’s out there, terrorizing people. But Emily isn’t willing to accept anything on face value, and she will do whatever it takes to get to the truth behind these deaths. It will take all of Emily’s wits to uncover the secrets behind these killings, secrets that reach back hundreds of years and speak to the very heart of what it means for one person to be connected to another. Will she find the truth before it’s too late? Or will Bellefleur’s secrets swallow her up, like the rest of the town? You don’t belong here, little sister. Run home before it’s too late.

If a gun goes off and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? When an innocent hiker is gunned down in the middle of the woods, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself back in the town where it all began, looking for answers. After some harrowing cases and some narrow misses, Emily knows that an FBI Agent’s job is never done as she returns to the small mountain town of Stillwater. What at first looks like an accident, is soon revealed to be part of something more A hunter, using humans as his targets. The only problem is, Emily can’t prove it. But she’s been in this job long enough to know a predator when she sees one. As she fights to uncover the truth, she’ll also have to face a personal choice, one that tests her loyalty not only to herself, but also to those she loves the most. Love, it seems, is always complicated, especially when your life is constantly on the line. This time, though, she may have to make the ultimate choice. Join Emily in this exhilirating new adventure where the hunter becomes the hunted, and no one knows what’s around the next corner.

Not all is Merry and Bright. While it may be a festive season for most, for Special Agent Emily Slate, Christmas is nothing more than a nuisance—a time when crowds and traffic get worse, and tempers run hotter. As if Emily didn’t have enough trouble surviving the season unscathed, a recent string of robberies has just turned deadly. A trio of robbers, each dressed as Santa Claus, have been looting local jewelry stores and their most recent attack has claimed the life of a young woman. Determined to stop the thieves before they escalate further, Emily and Zara take the case, using their wits and skills to track down the robbers before they can strike again. But this is no average holiday heist. Dark and twisted motives have put this plan into motion and Emily will find herself feeling the whiplash as she attempts to navigate the twists and turns of this unique case. If these criminals aren’t caught before holiday is over, there’s no telling how much carnage they may leave in their wake. Oh What Fun is a holiday-themed novella that takes place between A Liar’s Grave and The Girl in the Wall.

Who do you trust when everyone is a suspect? In the seedy underbelly of the nation’s capital, a drug deal gone wrong ignites a firestorm which threatens to pull the entire city into a gang war. Special Agent Emily Slate, still investigating the possibility she may still have living family is brought in to help determine who is killing criminals and why. Someone is looking to position themselves as the new leader of the criminal underworld. The only question is who would be so brazen? And can she stop the backlash before innocent people are caught in the crossfire? Teaming up with a new department, Emily, Zara, Liam are given the impossible assignment of finding the culprit. But tracking down this killer is easier said than done. The only evidence left behind is the professional way in which the victims were dispatched. As she teeters on the precipice between law and lawlessness, between the questions of her lineage and the clear call of justice, one thing remains certain: Emily Slate will stop at nothing to reveal the truth, no matter how perilous the path may be.

The Blood of the Covenant is Thicker than the Water of the Womb… After spending months tracking down the mysterious person sending her letters, Emily finds herself face to face with the one person she never thought she’d see again…her mother. The only problem is her mother is dead. What started out as seemingly nothing more than a practical joke has turned deadly serious as Emily tries to grapple with the secrets of her family’s past, secrets that refuse to stay buried. And it seems the more she fights, the more she digs herself in deeper. Cut off from everything she knows, Emily struggles to bring the truth to light. But if she doesn’t figure out the answer to these riddles before it’s too late, she may never see the light of day, or the people she loves, again.

Sun, sand and champagne. It sounds like the perfect vacation, until the disappearances started. Local women are vanishing from the Caribbean island of St. Solomon and no one seems to know why. Even worse, the local authorities aren’t doing anything about it. Determined not to let these disappearances get any worse, Special Agent Emily Slate goes undercover for the first time since her life was turned upside down, determined to find out who could be behind it all. Except she’ll get more than she bargained for. The tropical island holds a deadly secret, one that may drag Emily under with no chance to come up for air.

Where the highway ends, the nightmare begins. Reassigned to a quiet field office in Albuquerque after a mysterious data breach, FBI agent Emily Slate is restless. But when a young woman’s body is found in the New Mexico desert, she’s thrust into a case that feels far more dangerous than it seems. With only her partner Zara for backup, Emily quickly realizes that this wasn’t a random killing—but instead is part of something much bigger. As they dig deeper, Emily and Zara uncover a twisted conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, a plot that stretches across the barren desert and threatens to claim more lives. Racing against time, they must unravel the deadly scheme before the killer strikes again—and before they become the next targets. In the vast emptiness of the desert, danger is closer than it appears.

A chilling message from the capital drags Emily Slate out of safety and back into the storm, to confront her greatest threat yet. After receiving a devastating call, Emily and Zara are forced to return to D.C. to confront the conspiracy that has splintered the FBI and put their lives at risk. But the city of magnificent intentions hides more than just political secrets. Two agents, sidelined like Emily, are found dead under suspicious circumstances, signaling the sinister forces at work are escalating their plan. With the FBI under direct attack, the rules no longer apply. Stripped of her badge’s protection, Emily finds herself outside the law for the first time, racing against a shadowy adversary with more than just her career on the line. Navigating a labyrinth of lies without her standard arsenal, Emily must rely on her wits and Zara's unshakeable loyalty. They are all that stand between the FBI and its complete destruction. As the body count rises and the web of deceit tightens, Emily faces a chilling How do you catch a traitor in an organization built on trust? In the seventeenth pulse-pounding installment of the Emily Slate series, Alex Sigmore delivers a tale where loyalty is tested, and the most dangerous enemies are those hidden in plain sight.

Some places are built to heal. Others are designed to hurt. Special Agent Emily Slate has just been appointed to lead a new team within the FBI. It’s a fresh start. A new boss. A new mandate. But no time to breathe. A series of disturbing reports from a remote psychiatric facility land on her desk—patients suddenly cut off from family, strange staff turnover, and whispers of something far more sinister beneath the surface. The deeper she and her team dig, the clearer it this isn’t about mental health. It’s about power, control, and silence. And someone inside will do whatever it takes to keep the truth buried—even if it means killing to protect it. As the lines between sanity and conspiracy blur, Emily must navigate the shadows of an institution built on secrets… before she becomes its next patient.