This practical guide takes you through the ins and outs of writing and publishing your first book, including how to:

• Create authentic characters, engaging plotlines, and believable settings
• Edit for tone, structure, and...

"It takes a lot of chutzpah for a book reviewer to write books of her own....But Hallie Ephron...can hold her head high: She does it, and very well, too."
--Seattle Times

A recluse who works and lives online must brave the "real world" when her sister goes missing in Come and Find Me--a gripping and ingenious novel of mystery and psychological suspense from Hallie Ephron, author of Never Tell a Lie. Writing about her sensational debut, USA Today noted, "You can imagine Hitchcock curling up with this one." Aficionados of Rear Window,...

There Was An Old Woman by Hallie Ephron is a compelling novel of psychological suspense in which a young woman becomes entangled in a terrifying web of deception and madness involving an elderly neighbor.

When Evie Ferrante learns that her mother has been hospitalized, she finds her mother's house in chaos. Sorting through her mother's belongings, Evie discovers objects that don't quite belong there, and begins to raise questions.

Evie renews a friendship with Mina, an elderly neighbor who might know more about her mother's recent activities, but Mina is having her own...

Los Angeles, 1985. When Deirdre Unger returns to Beverly Hills to help her father put his dilapidated house on the market, she gets a lot more than she expected. . . . In a cruel Sunset Boulevard ian twist, Deirdre arrives home to find her father facedown in his too-small swimming pool dead.

At first, Deirdre assumes her father s death was a tragic accident. But when her childhood best friend, Joelen Nichol daughter of the famous and infamous Elenor Bunny Nichol resurfaces, Deirdre starts to wonder. Back in 1963, Joelen confessed to killing her movie-star mother s boyfriend. Deirdre was...

An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, about three generations of women haunted by a little girl's disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to the truth . . .

Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when an adorable puppy scampered by. Eager to pet the pretty dog, Lissie chased after the pup as it ran down the street. When she returned to the yard, Janey's precious doll was gone . . . and so was...