Untreed Reads: 526 books

When foot reflexologist Keely Moreno and her boyfriend, P.I. Punt Ashford, help Maxine Jackson and her son Randy search for the long-ago killer of Randy’s deceased girlfriend, they endanger their lives. Randy, who has been unlawfully imprisoned for 20 years, has now been released and has returned...

Think a baby monitor is just to keep tabs on the baby? That's what Jessie Hanson believes until she hears a sinister conversation coming through her little brother's monitor. Instead of baby chatter, Jessie hears a rough-talking man and a woman with an accent planning a robbery somewhere in her small...

Luke Dayton, a sophomore at a Virginia college, is walking home form the corner store when out of nowhere a man literally snatches him from off the street. To his horror, Luke learns that the man is a recent prison escapee - and that his plan to keep his freedom involves taking Luke's. Over the next...

Following the death of the parents of Jonathan’s four-year-old nephew Joshua, Dick and his partner find themselves in a new role: parents. As if fatherhood didn’t bring enough of a set of challenges, the mother of one of Joshua’s new friends is murdered, sending Dick on a trail to find out who...

Superstition explores the difference between an old wives' tale and an omen. When do you listen and when is it just a laugh among friends? Sometimes there's belief - a knowing - that in a pile of superstitions, one or two will really happen. Throwing salt over your shoulder won't be enough. What will you do then? A work of super short horror from our Spectres line.

Amy has never really known family. Not like her husband, Brad, with his tribe of brothers, sisters, and cousins. Amy's only ever had her Aunt Zara ever since Amy was twelve and her parents died. It was Aunt Zara who took her in, raised her, and provided for all her needs and desires. Aunt Zara has been...

Everyone’s favorite mountain man returns! The year is 1843. On his way to Fall Rendezvous, Mount meets up with his old friend Patch, along with Sunshine, Patch’s traveling companion. What starts out as an expedition for fun, soon turns to an epic struggle for survival amid the dramatic and exciting...

Mount, our favorite mountain man, is back for a third installment of action and adventure! It’s 1844 and Mount has returned to his secluded cabin nestled in the Rocky Mountains, bringing with him his new bride, Sandra, and stepson, Andy. The new family is happy beyond words, and just starting to build...

A spirited, adventurous twelve-year-old, Jessie Hanson, witnesses a hit-and-run accident in which a young girl is injured. With the help of her best friend, Tina Adams, she uses her detecting skills to cut through the victim's amnesia and track down the driver of the deadly automobile. This is the third in The Willow Lane Mysteries novella series, aimed at readers ages 9 to 12.

Originally published as stand-alone short stories, Beth Mathison's heartwarming series about a couple looking to rekindle their romance is finally collected in one volume. Frannie and David Young have been married over twenty years, have two kids, busy jobs, a house in the suburbs and a dog named Max....

Petty thieves Kean and Ozzy are recruited by an eccentric collector to smuggle outlawed treeware. When the pickup goes wrong, they are hunted through the streets of Morocco. Running for their lives, they discover what lengths each will go to to save the other. A short story.

Kyle and Austin's vacation plans go horribly wrong when they become the victims of a home invasion by a group of bank robbers. Rather than simply steal their belongings and run the criminals choose to hold the couple hostage in their apartment until they can come up with a getaway plan. As the police begin to close in both the crooks' desperation levels-and their tempers-begin to rise.

Someone killed Bill, and whoever it was stole all the money. Rita Mae came to San Francisco in the late 1800s with her man to find a better life, never mind the fact that said new life involved plans to rob a few banks. When Bill is murdered, Rita Mae starts turning tricks while she tries to find the...

When Count Felipo's daughter, Ursula, becomes ill, her father is desperate to find a remedy, so much so that he is prepared to hire the artist who previously painted her portrait to transform the girl in the picture to a sorry, ailing creature, in the hope that the life from the original portrait will somehow be transferred to the dying girl. What will be the result of his gamble? A short story.