Four-year-old Haley Fordham witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate and newly married to FBI criminal profiler Vince Leone. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer. Takes place in 1986.

Smokey Dalton moves to Chicago in 1968 in the hopes of finding a home for himself and his friend Jimmy and starting his own private investigation firm.

Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex. At Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past, the lady of the house claims she saw a violent murder-- but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war. Everyone in the village believes that the losses of the grieving widow...

1850. After witnessing a crime, Sophie Neumann needs to flee New York with her two young charges. She manages to find passage to Illinois on an orphan train, with the aid of the Children's Aid Society. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm when an old friend shows up, pleading for help. But how can he help her when mounting debts and past scars still haunt him? -- adapted from back cover and perusal of text.

The small, Bible-obsessed town of Bourbonvilee, Tennessee, is forced to give up its secluded nature and face the rest of the world when a gruesome double murder puts the town in the middle of a media frenzy.