Jay Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this? Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother, Charlie, a wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell under the sway of a charismatic but deeply disturbed cultlike figure. Tragedy ensued and lives were destroyed,...

"Miranda Greene may be incarcerated for a brutal crime, but to prison psychologist Frank Lundquist, she will always be his high school crush. Nothing could have prepared him for the morning Miranda--as magnetic as ever--walks into his office. Frank knows he should reassign Miranda's case, but he's insatiably curious: how did the promising daughter of a congressman end up serving time for such a shocking offense? Haunted by childhood tragedy and...

On a hot night in the summer of 1987, Hannah, the Holt family's nanny, left Lake Hall without a trace, devastating seven-year-old Jo. Haunted by the loss of the woman she loved more than anyone, Jo grew up blaming her beautiful, aristocratic mother, Virginia. Thirty years later in the wake of tragedy, Jo returns to her faded childhood home and is forced to confront her troubled relationship with Virginia. But the fraught peace between mother and daughter...

In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come. Eleven years later she is replaced. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to...

Years after their daughter went missing, the Lane family, fearing that she is gone forever, are plunged into a world of buried secrets and lies when a stunning twist in the case sends shockwaves through their tight-knit community.

In the middle of a Chicago police investigation into a brutal murder, Kate Bishop discover she has the ability to identify killers just by looking into their eyes. Kate is tracked down by Jack Raines, a mysterious author with shadowy connections to those who share her ability. He tells Kate that her unique vision also makes her a target, and only he can help her. A force of super-predators will stop at nothing until Kate is dead. Is Jack really her...

"Jessica Mayhew is a sharp, successful therapist with a thriving practice and loving family. But the arrival of a new client, actor Gwydion Morgan, coincides with a turbulent moment in her life: her husband has just confessed to a one-night stand with a younger woman ... Jessica becomes ensnared in the Morgan family mystery, which soon becomes an explosive public scandal, one that puts her directly in harm's way. Meanwhile, Jessica is doing her best...

When human bones are tentatively identified as Brian Nowak, a man missing for fifteen years, Sergeant Winters brings the shattered family together to uncover the truth behind his death.

"Iris,a single mother and lawyer uncovers by accident that she has an autistic brother who is in prison for brutally murdering her neighbor and her daughter. Visiting Ray, she meets an odd man who looks heartbreakingly like her own son, but unable to communicate like the rest of us. Is he really a killer?" -- Provided by the publisher.

One dinner party will destroy everything.

The night that throws a wrecking ball into Abby's life starts out perfectly at first. There's still a hint of summer sun in the purple-streaked sky. Abby and her best friend, Sienna, look on fondly as their two husbands laugh under the garden gazebo. None of them know it's the last time they will be together again.

What starts out as just a little fun, has devastating consequences for the

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