Tom is the kind of guy who lives in a happy little bubble---he never expects anything to go wrong. He has a great job, the perfect wife, and a nice home in a good neighborhood. But one night, Tom comes home to an empty house, the lights on and door unlocked. His wife is gone. She left her phone, her purse... Then a policeman shows up . . .
Anne and Marco Conti's life looks shiny from the outside---nice house, new baby, happy marriage. One night, Anne and Marco are invited next door for dinner, and when the babysitter cancels, Marco convinces Anne to leave baby Cora at home anyway. It's no big deal---the Contis' home share a wall with their neighbor's home, and they agree to . . .
Jess Wong is in love with her best friend Angie, even if she can’t quite admit so to herself, let alone anyone else. But she doesn’t hide it so well, especially when Angie starts dating Margot, who attends the nearby boarding school. Jess immediately dislikes Margot, which causes a serious rift in her friendship with Angie. Jess would do anything for ...
Makani Young was forced to leave her life behind in Hawaii after a terrible accident. She now lives with her grandmother in Osborne, Nebraska---basically, a giant corn field, the most boring place on the planet. That is, until Makani's classmates started turning up dead. And not just dead---horribly, disgustingly mutilated. Makani and ...
Stevie Bell loves mysteries. She loves them so much, she was accepted into the prestigious Ellingham Academy, site of the notorious Ellingham kidnapping/murder. During her first semester, she not only attempted to solve this decades-old cold case, but ended up starring in a mystery of her own: one dead classmate, another ...
An unnamed young woman makes a living the only way she knows how---by conning people. Since she was a child, she's been in the business of fraud. When a developing case of carpal tunnel threatens her current job, she's offered a new position at Spiritual Palms reading auras. Easy enough, right? Just ...
On a seemingly normal evening, Alex and his son Max chase their cat into the neighbor's back yard, then through his open back door. What they find changes everything: their neighbor, dead, in the bathtub. What first looks like suicide begins to seem like murder as new information is ...
In a small Ohio town, a young girl named Lydia Lee is found dead in the local lake. Lydia, the middle child in the Lee family. Lydia, whose mother wants her to be a doctor and whose father wants her to be the popular girl with tons of friends. Lydia, who couldn't swim, but ... Continue reading
Albert Ellingham ran a free school for the gifted, a magical place for high school juniors and seniors who just weren't getting the attention they needed in the public school system. But not just anybody could get in---you had to appeal and ... Continue reading
Misty Marie Kleinman grew up poor, sitting on a cigarette-burned shag carpet with her hippie waitress mother, drawing beautiful houses in a perfect town on a gorgeous island. In art school, she met the man who would make her ... Continue reading
