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Did she do it? A hundred years ago, it was the Trial of the Century. A young woman stood accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother in a crime so heinous that it became a benchmark in human tragedy. A hundred years later, the Lizzie Borden case still resounds in the imagination. There are those who staunchly defend Lizzie's innocence while others behemently decleare that she did it, and that the murder was justified. In Elizabeth Engstrom's brilliant novel, the dark psychology of the Borden household is laid bare. Lizzie, her sister Emma and their parents Andrew and Abby Borden, are sharply illuminated--as are the paranoia and concealed hatred that secretly ruled the family. Domestic violence and dysfunctional families are not inventions of modern times.

Three college girls go looking for excitement in a cowboy bar east of the mountains. After their car breaks down on the way, they come across a campground closed for the winter where three older guys are hanging out, drinking in their car, having gone "camping" on a whim. The girls pile into the car with them to get warm. The events which then transpire on this endless night of truth and terror leave three people dead and four people with lives that will never be the same. This thriller from veteran author Elizabeth Engstrom includes discussion questions for book clubs, literature classes and women's studies classes.

Carjacked at gunpoint by a young female desperado, middle-aged Darlene Martin drives the girl far away from civilization to a place unlike anything in Darlene''s experience. The girl and her lover take Darlene''s car and leave her in the remote cabin with a very unusual man, also unlike anything in Darlene''s experience.

Veteran author Elizabeth Engstrom dives into the horrific stories of seven serial killers, along with a glimpse into the maggoty world of forensic entomology. Why do these killers do what they do, how do they get away with it for so long, and what is their final undoing? Riveting true crime stories to make you lock your doors at night.

Left without parents in a post-apocalyptic world, fifteen-year-old Parker tries to provide for himself and his little sister, but he faces obstacles even more challenging than merely finding food. In this lawless new non-society, Parker tries to navigate around criminals, despots, and desperados, while trying to make, or find, a place suitable to call home. He discovers a gift that he never knew he had, which complicates their lives and makes it both harder and sweeter for both of them.This post-apocalyptic novel by veteran author Elizabeth Engstrom is a haunting treatise on our lives and times and the spiritual realities that might save us all. She takes a new look at what could easily be our future and finds some unexpected beauty.

This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us. In these stories, you will read about a woman asked to be complicit in her own mother's death, a grandmother with a macabre hobby, a bizarre, phallic-shaped flower that portends evil for a married couple, a father whose son is caught up in a sinister government experiment. These are weird and unsettling tales will linger with the reader.In her introduction to this new edition, Lisa Kr ger writes, "There are true horrors that await readers in all of Engstrom's works ... reminds me of another giant of horror literature, Shirley Jackson."