Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party. They've settled into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time...Until one day Jacob appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world, people's loved ones are returning from the beyond. As chaos...

As divorced single mother Anne attempts to deal with the death of her young son, a former architect named Mark struggles with his life decisions, and Father Paul rethinks his decision to serve as an abbot, and all three work to allow God to bring wholeness to their lives.

"A novel about a mother grieving her son's death in a Colorado resort town who is faced with another shock--the appearance of a strange girl carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably"--

"Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son's only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task--finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life. Before the tragedy that unfolded in a South Dakota mall, Robbie was...

"Martin, who has always been drawn to the ocean, moves his wife Alexandra and their two young children move to his family's idyllic summer cottage in the picturesque island village of Orust, on the west coast of Sweden. Martin begins to cultivate a musselfarm, where he soon runs into trouble with the locals. One January weekend, in the few moments Martin is distracted by a ringing phone, his young son goes missing, leaving his little red bucket bobbing...

A man stands on the Golden Gate Bridge, poised to jump...if a woman on the other end of the phone tells him to. Maris's safe suburban world was shattered the day her daughter was found murdered, presumably at the hands of the young woman's boyfriend. Her marriage crumbling, her routine shattered, Maris walks away from her pampered life as a Bay Area mom the day she receives a call from Ron, father of her daughter's killer. Wracked with guilt over...

"Are you my mommy? Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children. Not anymore. She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own... Tessa isn't sure what to believe or whom to trust. Because someone...

Maggie and Aaron Royal must come to terms with their first child's death in the womb and stillbirth, the resulting strain on their marriage, and their hesitant joys and turbulence of a second pregnancy.

"Anna is gone. It starts with a deadly car crash that creates too many questions. Will Paige learn learn the truth about her daughter, Anna, before a deadly ghost from her past end's Paige's life? Why Anna is gone is yet to be determined. Was this an accident, a murder, or a staged kidnapping? As Paige works to accept her tragic loss, she struggles to cope. The darkness of her mind threatens to overcome her. Further investigation into the car accident...

Devastated by their daughter's murder, Guy and Laura Dykstra try to overcome their grief by restoring an old house. But soon they are confronted with the ghost of a young girl who suffered an unimaginable death.