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From the author of North of Montana ("The writing has the taut, perfect tone of a well-tuned string"—Scott Turow), a spellbinding new thriller about ambition taken to unexpected, and deadly, extremes.
Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers—the only female scout in the major leagues. Hard-living and hard-drinking, a gifted athlete herself, she takes pride in successfully competing in a male world. But recently...

"Guapo significa muchas cosas. Guapo no es valiente, guapo no es feroz, guapo no es osado. Es todo eso y más. Guapo es guapo. El hijo pródigo regresa a Santo Domingo, buscando entender su pasado y salvar su futuro. Los personajes de Guapo viven al límite, llenos de contradicciones, culpas y por supuesto, anhelos. Todos ellos dan forma a una historia de narrativa diáfana que crece en intensidad, y que cautivará y atrapará a los lectores desde...

"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...

The American odyssey of Yo, a Dominican woman writer whose family arrived in the U.S. as refugees from a dictatorship. The novel follows her youth, with its energy and optimism, and the setbacks as she grows older, including two divorces.

"A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she's called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings Day special. She's welcomed to the blue ballast-stone streets of Old San Juan by crime scene tape, and...

"While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican bogeyman if she hopes to free Natasha and return home to Chicago. Includes...

Tocar la güira le recuerda a Angélica a las personas que ama y extraña, especialmente a su abuelo en la República Dominicana. Playing the güira reminds Angélica of the people she loves and misses, especially her grandfather in the Dominican Republic.