On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold riches. But pursuing those riches brings danger as well as opportunity, and ultimately, Francesca's family must...

A bloodstained note left for Chicago PI Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about. That sister, Savannah, is pregnant and begging for Georgia's help. Determined to track her down, Georgia finds herself heading deep into the dangerous underworld of Chicago's illegal sex trafficking business. She soon discovers that trafficking is just a small part of the horrifying and deadly situation in which her new sister is caught up. Even worse, as Georgia tries to extricate Savannah, she comes up against an old enemy determined to make sure neither woman will...

When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia Davis-former cop and newly-minted PI-is hired to look into the incident at the behest of the accused's sister, and what she finds hints at a much different, much darker answer. It seems the privileged, preppy schoolgirls on Chicago's North Shore have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen. But while these girls can pay for Prada pricetags, they don't realize that their new business venture may end up costing them more than they can...

Un thriller en gran parte ambientado en Cuba, que se extiende por tres generaciones de la misma familia En visperas de la Revolucion Cubana, la testaruda Francesca Pacelli, de 18 anos de edad, huye de su despiadado padre, un Jefe de la Mafia en La Habana, a los brazos de su amante, un rebelde que lucha con Fidel Castro. Su padre, desesperado por enviarla a la seguridad en los Estados Unidos, recurre a la tortura y al chantaje para buscarla en la isla. Asi comienza la primera parte de una saga fascinante que abarca tres generaciones de la misma familia. Decadas despues, la promesa de riquezas...

Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. Molly's mother, Chris, is so grateful to have her daughter back that she's willing to overlook the odd circumstances. A few days later, the brakes go out on Chris's car. An accident? Maybe. Except that it turns out that Chris, the IT manager at a large Chicago bank, may have misappropriated three million dollars. Not convinced that his daughter is safe, Molly's father hires Private Investigator Georgia Davis to follow the money and investigate Chris's death. "Doubleback," the...

Die Videoproduzentin Ellie Foreman war seit fast einem Jahrzehnt nicht mehr im Repertoire der Thrillerautorin Libby Fischer Hellmann zu finden. Jetzt, in Jump Cut - Bildsprung, ist sie wieder zuruck...und sogleich in ein Netz aus Spionage, Mord und Verdachtigungen verstrickt, das droht, alles zu zerstoren, was ihr lieb und teuer ist. Ellie, die von Delcroft, einem der grossten Unternehmen der Luftfahrttechnik mit Sitz in Chicago, angeheuert wurde, um ein beschonigendes Video uber die Firma zu drehen, ist besturzt, als die hochrangige Abteilungsleiterin Charlotte Hollander die Produktion...