Thomas' life was seemingly perfect. Thomas' father was someone Thomas loved and respected, Thomas had a family that cared deeply for him, and Thomas had a friend to whom he could look for guidance. Most perfect of all, Thomas' best friend was also the love of his life, Mary Lyte, who he planned to one day marry. Unfortunately, when Thomas' father refuses to accept a call from the Prophet and is subsequently excommunicated from the Church, Thomas finds his perfect life suddenly spiraling out of control. Confused at the happenings and torn between following the father he loved and holding on to...

When David Palmer graduated from high school, married his high school sweetheart, and enrolled in the University of Chicago with enough college credit to be a junior, he was well on his way to live the rest of his life in normalcy. Settling down, having three children, and earning a middle-class household income were all the adventure David wanted. In the wrong place at the wrong time, David becomes captive to a tragedy that steals any hope that he will lead a normal or quiet life. A victim of the latest public massacre, David is left in a coma for ten months, only to wake and find that the...

Beauty broke the spell by falling in love with the Beast, and they lived happily ever after. For Elise, her friends, her father, and every other citizen of Colmar, the story was a fairy tale created by the older generation to help little children sleep at night without fear. But, forty years after Belle and over sixty years after the curse, the legend becomes a haunting reality once again. Joined on one side by Marshall, who is possessively in love with her, and joined on the other side by her invalid friend Patric, who Elise feels she must protect, Elise never thought she would also befriend...