SPIDER WEB is the dark story of a suburban drug epidemic told from diverse perspectives-one is that of Hal Jenkins, 51, a Parsippany, New Jersey, police detective with an inadequate anti-drug task force. The second is that of Samantha Tate, 23, a fashion model adrift on the fringes of the underworld. Hal's job is in jeopardy unless he can break a methamphetamine ring. Samantha's life is in danger unless she can shake her addictions, both physical and psychological. They meet during Hal's investigation of a tragic accident. Afterward, Hal keeps finding Samantha where she doesn't belong. Their...

PARTITION chronicles a microcosm of India in 1947, a British archeological dig in rural Punjab. There, while uncovering artifacts of India's past, Professor Robert Joyce is enveloped by political turmoil of India's present. Robert must deal with competing pressures from Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs. Complicating Robert's exit strategy, his daughter Serena falls for two graduate students, one Hindu and one Muslim.

QUARTET is the story of four talented string players who meet at a music conservatory in Cooperstown, New York, where their lives are forever changed. More than a mere coming-of-age story, QUARTET examines, in four distinct voices, the relationships between talent, ambition, and friendship. Kat Dobro, a fiery Romanian-American, drives herself toward greatness-or destruction; Suyin Zhang, borderline anorexic, struggles to break free of the Asian-American stereotype-and from her mother; Ana Kozerski, a Russian exchange student, has big dreams-and bigger secrets; Jaz Phillips, class-clown, has...