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Hiking the Santa Ana foothills, Travis Cornell, a former Delta Force soldier convinced that everyone he loves dies, is befriended by a golden retriever of uncanny intelligence that has escaped a secret laboratory, and something else that escaped with it is hunting the dog.
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Odd Thomas
Odd Thomas, a twenty-year-old short-order cook in the desert town of Pico Mundo, California, sees the lingering dead and does what he can for them, and when a stranger arrives trailed by a swarm of shadowy creatures that feed on pain, he knows something terrible is coming.
Phantoms
Jenny Paige, a doctor, brings her teenage sister Lisa home to Snowfield, a ski town in the California mountains, and finds its five hundred residents dead or vanished.
Relic
Days before a blockbuster exhibition opens at New York's Museum of Natural History, visitors and guards are found savagely killed in its halls, and a graduate student, a city detective and an unusual FBI agent from New Orleans come to suspect something is living in the basement.
Summer of Night
In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a gang of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys on bicycles discover that something evil has woken in Old Central, the huge old school that is about to close for good.
The Guide
A grieving young fishing guide takes a job at an exclusive Colorado lodge during a pandemic, and while escorting a famous singer along the river he begins to notice what the lodge is hiding.
A Dog's Purpose
A dog born to a feral mother lives several lives in a row, each time as a different dog with a different family, and while he is Bailey, a golden retriever who belongs to a boy named Ethan, he begins to wonder what all these lives are for.
Fairy Tale
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Reade rescues his reclusive neighbour Howard Bowditch after a fall, and while caring for the old man and his ageing German shepherd, Radar, he learns that the locked shed in the backyard opens onto another world.
The Last Thing He Told Me
The morning her husband Owen vanishes, Hannah Hall receives a note from him that says only 'Protect her', meaning his sixteen-year-old daughter Bailey, who wants nothing to do with her, as federal agents descend on his tech company.
Tell No One
Eight years after his wife Elizabeth was abducted and murdered at their childhood lake, paediatrician David Beck receives an anonymous email containing a phrase only she knew, and a link to a street camera in which a woman who looks like her stares back.
Mr. Mercedes
Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.
Open Season
Joe Pickett, a young and underpaid game warden in Saddlestring, Wyoming, finds an outfitter dying on the woodpile behind his house, and the trail leads into a fight over land and money in which he and his family are in the way.
The Twisted Ones
Mouse, a freelance editor, goes with her dog Bongo to clear out her late grandmother's hoarded house in rural North Carolina, and finds her step-grandfather's journal, which reads like the work of a madman.