To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that...
Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great- grandmother's farm in the...
She was found stabbed to death on a quiet, shaded street in one of Los Angeles ' safest neighbourhoods. For three months the police have found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych...
Philip Kerr, who sold his four previous novels to Hollywood for thousands of dollars, has worked out the art of writing the book of the film. A Five Year Plan has the ingredients — drugs, girls, high-octane climax — and all in a single boat. But...
Nuclear fallout circled the Earth like a blanket of death.
Temperatures plummeted. Crops and livestock died.
Man turned on man in a desperate attempt to survive.
And it was just the beginning.
This is how the world ends. Not with a...
"Alex Duarte is my kind of cop. I hope he sticks around for a long, long, time." – Michael ConnellyIt was supposed to be a low-level bust for ATF agent Alex Duarte, with the hope that he could work it up the ladder to someone important. He...
From the author of DESERT PLACES, ABANDON, and “Serial,” comes this short story which is an excellent and affordable introduction to the author’s work.In “Remaking,” tragic events unfold in a snowy, sleepy Colorado town. From the first...
Bernie Rhodenbarr – a romantic? Hey, even burglars fall in love and in this case it's Bernie doing the falling, with the lovely and alluring Ilona. Night after night, sharing popcorn in the flickering shadow of a Bogie movie, Bernie finds himself...