It's the go-go 1980s when journalist Wally Pearson gets mugged in Times Square. It's a jolt that prompts him to throw away his career and open a cafe in his small hometown. Little does he know that in doing so he's about to get entrapped in the collision of fame, fortune, ambition and love in the northwoods of Wisconsin-all tempered with more than a little delusion. His Loon Town Cafe is the common meeting ground for many different forces. Chicago millionaire Henry Van Elkind plots from his lavish summer camp a transformation of the region. The Native American tribe, whose reservation edges...

Secrets kill. Not just those you choose to keep from others, or even those that others guard from you. There remains those secrets that you so desparately hide from yourself. They all catch up with Lempi Makinen Lahti. When Lempi's teenage son Danny discovers her suicide, he seeks to solve the mysteries that defined her life and death. A pack of letters and clippings hidden in an old family trunk may be the only keys to understanding both his mother's past and his own future. "The Finnish Girl" is a richly told tapestry of interwoven characters-the family patriarch who emigrates from Finland...

An inventive high-tech psychological thriller. Danny Lahti thought he had it all. But after a hacker attacks his company, a prowler attempts to break in, and a friend goes missing, Danny's world no longer seems quite so secure. Are these events just coincidences, or are they the first feints of a crazed admirer? Someone seems determined to test Danny in every way possible, and that person does not care who or what gets in the way, because this obsessed follower is determined to force the truth from Danny. As time runs out, Danny is forced to relook at his own relationships, misdeeds,...