"A gripping story that pulls you in and doesn't let go until the end." -Book Review Cafe A GRISLY CRIME On a day that seems perfectly ordinary, Alice Halpern waits for her best friend at the playground where they always meet with their children in their comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood. But when Lauren doesn't come home, then fails to pick her son up from school, a normal day turns into a nightmare-and Alice begins to realize that nothing will ever be ordinary again. A GROWING FEAR The police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine months pregnant. Alice, herself pregnant, realizes...

"Mesmerizing...Your heart will be pounding long after you've turned the final page." --Lisa Gardner, New York Times Bestselling Author of Love You More SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RIGHT BACK... Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store...and disappeared. When her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns to a retired FBI profiler named John Geary for help. As her family scours the Cape for her, Emily's thoughts are not on her own safety. Kept helpless in a madman's lair, she watches him prepare a five-day...

"Jam-packed with heart stopping suspense." -Book Fetish ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED... New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl-but this time she is part of Dave's family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disappearance is not just a tragic coincidence. And once the first phone call...

"Suspense at a high level." -Midwest Book Review WHERE DOES THE TRUTH END-AND THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL BEGIN? When she discovers e-mail evidence of her husband's infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, she takes their baby daughter and goes to the one person she has always trusted: her twin sister, Julie. Annie and her sister soon become as close as they were growing up, spending their days together, dressing the same, sharing the baby. But when Annie applies for a job, everything comes undone. Her credit cards are stolen just a she's arrested for grand...

"Awesome and revealing."*

Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970s, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks.

"We were delinquents, addicts, mental cases, orphans and kids from broken homes."

Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she discovers that Patrick, her first boyfriend, is also a slip-sliding drug addict. ...

"Laugh-aloud funny." -Publishers Weekly Dawn and Hank's breakup is so fresh that she can see the tan line where her engagement ring used to be. She is still in love with Hank, who dumped her for Christine-and they're living together now. But when Dawn realizes how much Hank misses her, and might even regret their breakup, the game is on. Dating in 1980s Manhattan is confusing enough. Then Mike Blitsky-a.k.a. Mike Mauvais of "Misled Mike's Marvelous Men," a transvestite escort service-bursts into Dawn's life when she becomes the editor of a tell-all memoir he's writing to pay for his legal...

Aspiring cartoonist Catherine "Cat" Gold earns her living as a celebrity assistant in uptown Manhattan, while navigating the cramped downtown spaces of life, love, and alternative art. Her boss is Rochelle "Rocky" Love, a celebrated 1970s feminist and has-been '80s radio and television star who is convinced she can forge a '90s comeback with an autobiography. But the ghostwriter hired to glorify her life instead reveals a battleground of treachery and hypocrisy, littered with lies and sex that cross all the boundaries. When Cat herself experiences Rocky's duplicity and learns that the icon is...

IF HE CANT HAVE HER, NO ONE WILL.

Award-winning journalist Darcy Mayhew thinks she has faced her worst nightmare when her beloved husband dies in a car accident. But after moving to New York City with her teenage son to begin their lives anew, she discovers she has a stalker. Not only is the worst yet to come, but her husbands death may not have been an accident after all.