When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

A young woman enlists in an underground game of pain endurance in the hope of winning the million dollar prize. She soon learns the real opponent is the man who's running the game, as he employs horrific methods to manipulate and defeat her.

A convicted robber (lead villain) loses his wife and child after being sentenced to prison. While away he meets another crook who mentions a "job" he worked with a fellow thief that ended in a monumental score but also jail time for the pair. The second man hid the money at the home of his wife and teen-aged daughter before being sent to a separate facility than the first two men including the lead villain. When he learns of the money's whereabouts he escapes prison to head for the family's farmhouse. When he arrives he masks his identity to the family, gaining their trust. But soon after they find the true reason behind his arrival. The story then turns into a fight for survival with the mother and daughter against the escaped prisoner.

A former Confederate marauder tries to make a clean start on a Texas dirt farm with his wife and young daughter. He quickly learns that sometimes the past just won't stay buried.

A young finance executive inherits her uncle's mountain cabin only to discover that he also left half of it to the ruggedly handsome handyman that had been caring for it.