ANDREW NEIDERMAN

A psychiatrist wife comes to believe her husband’s latest patient is the devil. His influence over her husband and his other patients lead her to make very exciting and near fatal discoveries.

Mary Oaks, a religious woman, marries a man who proves to be far less than she anticipated. After their first child, a daughter, is born, Mary retreats deeper into her religion and when her husband forces her to make love and she becomes pregnant, she decides this child must be evil. After her husband is killed in an accident, she gives birth to the baby in the house and keeps it in the basement. Five years later, he finds his way out and becomes something of a terror during his nocturnal trips. When he endangers the life of a five-year-old girl, the horror is exposed.

Bobby loves his dog King, a playful German shepherduntil the day King turns and attacks him, snarling and vicious. The dog is put to sleep, but Bobby still sees him everywherein the garden, on the stairs, crouching, waiting. Then the horrific deaths beginbrutal, savage maulings. Terror grips the sleepy town of Fallsburg, and doors are nervously locked at night. For through the woods runs a dark shadow with dripping jaws, eluding pursuit with uncanny skill. Now, more than ever, the scientist down the road must guard the deadly secret of the monster theyve unleashed.

What would you do if you couldnt remember... who you were? where you lived? or what you might have done? Rush hour, Grand Central Station. Aaron Clifford stops dead in his tracks, commuters swirling around him -- but he doesnt know hes Aaron Clifford. He doesnt know who he is at all. No matter how hard he tries, he has no memory of why he is there, where he came from, or where hes going. Its impossible ...maddening...but its true. The clues came slowly: from his surroundings, from his wallet, from the taste of dry martini still on his lips. Soon Aaron Clifford will piece together the keys to his life. With that relief will come cold-blooded fear -- as he learns more than he ever knew before. Things he shouldnt know. Things he doesnt want to know. Things that could get him killed....

THEIR BEAUTY WAS ETHEREAL. THEIR HUNGER WAS INSATIABLE. AND THEIR EYES BORE A WISDOM FAR BEYOND THEIR YEARS.... For Webster Martin, the mysterious Shelly wasa dream come true: beautiful, energetic, with a bodyto die for. How could he have guessed she wasnt everything she appeared to be? And why should he doubt her after she had given him the greatest nightof his life? But Websters best friend, Carl, wasnt as fortunate. He went home with Shellys equally gorgeous friend -- and had a bullet in his head by morning. For Shelly, the night was just as unforgettable. Dr. Harrisons experiments had finally borne fruit and she had recaptured the beauty and youth that left her so long ago. But success often comes with a price. And sacrifices must be made. The experiment must remain a secretno matter what. DEAD TIME No one has all the time in the world.

The inspiration behind the major motion picture starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, an unputdownable thriller about a lawyer who discovers that hes become a defender of the damned. When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton & Associates, hes hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries theyve always dreamed ofa chauffeur and a limo, a stunning high-rise home. Then Kevin is assigned to one of the most notorious cases of the year, with a file that had been put together prior to the crime. Throwing himself into his work, Kevin begins to see a pattern of evil emerging from behind the firms plush facade. Acquittal after acquittal, every criminal client walks free, and Kevins suspicions slowly give way to terror.

Magic or Murder?When miserly landlord Henry Deutch is found dead of an apparent heart attack, no one is happier than Anna Young. It was Henry who evicted Annas mother from his Catskill tenement, which eventually led to her death. Anna swore a blood oath of vengence, but her alleged attacks were purely metaphysical. Yet, some claim them mortally effective; those who frequent her tiny shop for love charms and protective amulets attest that Anna Young is a master of black magic.Now a politically ambitious prosecuter has filed first-degree murder charges against Anna, contending that her spell casting litteraly frightened old Henry to death. And though the public remains divided among those who believe in Annas powers and those who think shes a murderous fraud, one Del Pearson, her court appointed lawyer, is about to discover the truth: whether Anna Young is a harmless charlatan, a cold blooded killer...or quite something else indeed.

When it comes to staying young, some people will pay any price What if Ponce de Leon really did discover the fountain of youth? Mr. Leon is alive in the twentieth century and is the owner of a high-end cosmetics company. His handpicked salespeople are his disciples. They remain forever young and healthy, but the cost is soul-wrenching. When Cynthia Edwards realizes her husband has become part of this madness she tries in vain to make her husband understandbut Mr. Leon demands terrible sacrifices.

Michael loves his wife, but after the tragic accident to their daughter Lillian, Miriam was untouchable, like a dream. Desperate, hoping that his living nightmare will finally end, and yearning to lie once again in the arms of his beautiful wife, Michael hires a nurse to care for his beloved. But though Nurse Randolphs powerful presence has done wonders for Miriam, the nurses ominous yet erotic dominance over Michael fills him with a strange, shuddering sense of doom. And nothing can make the terror disappear, especially not Tender Loving Care.

Marty, age seventeen, and Judy, age fourteen, become stepbrother and stepsister when their parents marry. When Martys father attempts to attack Judy, Marty beats him off. The pair flee to a nearby, seemingly deserted old resort in the Catskills, where they discover the owner still living as if the hotel were about to open. They participate in the old mans fantasy to keep themselves safe, carrying on a Romeo and Juliet romance, unaware they are constantly being watched.

Young Leon and Ursula had little except each other. Mother was driven by a psychotic need to cleanconstantlyeverything in sight. Father was consumed by his medical practice and an analytical approach to life. But he understood the sensual hunger growing inside his childrens young bodies. He knew they could help each other answer, The Need. Father had Science. Father had Reason. And he had Pin. Pin who answered all the childrens questions in a voice not unlike the doctors. Fathers clever trick. Fathers brilliant illusion. But then there was the accident and Mother and the doctor were dead. Still there was Pinwho had so much to tell then even yetwhose enigmatic stare held such wisdom. There would just be the three of them now. Quiet Leon, beautiful and frightened Ursula, and wise, implacable Pin. They were all each of them would need. Ever.

From Andrew Neiderman comes a haunting tale of a sons terrifying legacy....Surrogate ChildFifteen-year-old Solomon Stern was the perfect teenager: an ideal student, an outstanding athlete, and a valued friend.But when Solomon ended his life with a hangmans noose, he shattered every dream that Joe and Martha Stern held dear. His legacy: guilt to a father who didnt know his own son...despair to a mother who loved him too well.The foster child was a second chance for the Sterns -- Jonathan, a boy of Solomons age, intelligent and charming. But there were other similarities between Jonathan and the dead son. Disturbing similarities. And there was also something different about Jonathan...something chilling. Something deadly.

Dead Man StalkingShy and reclusive medical student Elaine Ross is warned she might have trouble dating after her only sister is brutally murdered by her brother-in-law, Dirk Stoner. Dirk, a handsome golf pro and the son of a billionaire developer, was convicted and executed amid a media frenzy that rivaled the O.J. Simpson trial. So when Elaine is coerced out to a nightclub and is unsettled by the advances of Jonathan Lewis -- a man whose mannerisms and gestures eerily remind her of Dirk -- she refuses to succumb to her paranoid fears.But Elaine cant conceive of the twisted trail of bribes, blackmail, and murder that Dirks billionaire father wove in an attempt to save his only son. She isnt aware that an FBI investigation linking the deaths of Dirks prison doctor and a plastic surgeon has been inexplicably dropped. And Elaine has no way of knowing that the face in her nightmares is carrying a very real torch...for revenge.

THE PERFECT CHILD. THE PERFECT NIGHTMARE.In the middle of the twenty-first century, the search for the human ideal is over. A medical breakthrough maintains the integrity of the worlds gene pool. Its also made the birth of Abnormals -- children born of natural pregnancy -- a capital offense. To ensure the faultless future of the human race, The Baby Squad is created to track down all women who defy the law, and exact punishment. Women like Natalie Ross. Shes pregnant -- a blessing to her, a disgrace to society -- and shes afraid. One young woman has already been found murdered. And the promise of more bloodshed soon sends Natalie on the run to the underground, where a safe house awaits. Or so she thinks. For Natalie and her unborn child pose a mortal threat to those in power who desire a pure world of their own design -- a world they will do anything to protect....The Baby Squad.

THEY DONT WANT HER MONEY. THEY WANT SOMETHING FAR MORE PRECIOUS.... In broad daylight, Anna Gold is abducted at gunpoint in a supermarket parking lot. Her kidnappers -- a deranged man and woman -- drive off with her and hold her captive, shackled in a basement. Recently estranged from her orthodox Jewish family, Anna had just begun a new life in upstate New York, testing the world outside her restrictive upbringing. Her passionate love affair with a married man was one of her new freedoms...and now Anna, carrying her lovers child, may be paying the price. For its not Anna her captors want, but her baby. Now, as a string of explosive events terrorize the town, a local detective leads the FBI to unmask a bizarre and deadly plot -- with the abduction of Anna Gold at its center. Your life is not your own.

The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books (The Wall Street Journal) in this Edgar Awardnominated celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrewsfeaturing family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more.Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues. Yet, once she rose to international literary fame, she prided herself on her intense privacy.Now, The Woman Beyond the Attic aims to connect her personal life with the public novels for which she was famous. Based on Virginias own letters, and interviews with her dearest family members, her long-term ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman tells Virginias full story for the first time.Perfect for anyone hoping to learn more about the enigmatic woman behind one of the most important novels of the 20th century, The Woman Beyond the Attic will have you transfixed (Publishers Weekly) from the first page.