Books like Breathless by Dean Koontz

Odd Thomas and his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, together with a ragtag group of allies, navigate a dark desert landscape where past and present collide. As murderers and supernatural forces emerge, they race to stop a looming cataclysm.

When a murderous sociopath stalks her friends in Napa Valley, former survivor Chyna Shepherd must guard herself and an innocent stranger, risking life and sanity to confront the deadly intensity of Edgler Vess.

Landscape gardener Mitch Rafferty has only sixty hours to rescue his kidnapped wife, facing a ruthless ransom demand and a deadly confrontation that turns his suburban life into a relentless thriller.

In the secluded town of Snowfield, California, a shocking mystery unfolds after 150 people are found dead with grotesque injuries, sparking a chilling investigation into a mass murder that blurs the line between good and evil.

In Dean Koontz’s thriller "Watchers," a genetically engineered dog gains human intelligence, stirring a deadly conflict when it escapes, endangering those who cared for it and unleashing a state‑level secret.

When a sterile silver rain engulfs a quiet Californian mountain town, a couple and neighbors discover that all communication has vanished and a hidden menace now stalks them, unveiling an apocalypse that threatens the world.

A psychological thriller that follows Martie Rhodes as she and her husband Dusty confront a series of mind‑bending events involving a draconian psychologist, drug‑rehabilitated brother, and the terror of self‑fear.

After surviving a hostage ordeal, international lawyer Sophie Bellamy returns to the Catskills village of Avalon on Willow Lake, where she reconnects with family and finds unexpected love with local veterinarian Noah Shepherd.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Roman fantastique. Roman policier (suspense).

Bestselling author Cubby Greenwich faces a cruel review from the enigmatic critic Shearman Waxx, leading him into a deadly confrontation with a ruthless sociopath who threatens more than his life.

After a wildlife smuggling operation in post‑Baghdad Iraq, a Louisiana veterinarian and a Border Patrol agent investigate a shipwreck carrying genetically altered animals with heightened intelligence, uncovering a terror plot tied to ancient genetic experiments.

While planning a party for the former patients of her parents' veterinary hospital, Mandy rescues an injured sheep dog.

Cowboy, Come Home Leaving his Colorado hometown was the second hardest thing Reed Montgomery ever did—the first was breaking up with Avery McAlister, his high school sweetheart. Now his Western roots are calling the citified CEO back to his family ranch to be surrogate dad to his niece, Jess. Of course, he can't help being pulled back into Avery's world. Keeping her financially strapped animal shelter open is Avery's first priority—her second turns out to be helping Reed with his parenting skills. They may be bonding, but her former flame still has some serious explaining to do about the secret that drove him away. The ghosts of the past and a rekindled desire bring Reed and Avery ever closer together. But will Reed embrace his future…as a cowboy, a father and as the man for Avery?

Rea and her Irish wolfhound Dante discover that love can overcome fear, while their bond inspires change in a therapist, veterinarians, an actor and others.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

A tale of faith, romance, and camaraderie among brothers, soldiers, and veterinarians.