Dreaming I Wake is a historical thriller blending a factual Golden-Age Hollywood murder mystery with a modern-day ghost story. The former owners of a Hollywood Hills bungalow, air-ambulance pilot James McQueen and his wife Andrea, actually felt a bit relieved after selling their "haunted house in the Hollywood Hills," and the creaking footsteps audible at night and the swaying chandelier in the den had been more unnerving than outright frightening. But a few months after moving, Jim begins having recurring dreams of the 1920s-era charmer, finding himself in the grips of increasingly...

Just turned fourteen, after years of sexual abuse at the hands of her biological father, Kim wasn't just ready to run away from home. She was ready to go to court. She was prepared to do everything necessary to see him in jail. In "Runaway," a true-life memoir, Kim recalls her escape from home to a halfway house for runaways. From there, she moves to a foster home and eventually a placement center, while being ground through the glacial and uncaring juvenile and criminal justice systems. Meanwhile, her clueless mother is caught in the middle, forced to choose between her equally compelling...

In Waking I Dream, the sequel to Dreaming I Wake and the second novel of Kim Robson's Dreaming Trilogy, we enter the rich inner world of Joan McQueen, who, with Angelman Syndrome, was severely mentally disabled from birth. At eight years of age, in the institution where she lives, she's abused by a predatory doctor. But in her potent dreams of another life, in another time, Joan is a math shark with a photographic memory, a WWII-era OSS undercover agent and cryptologist, and a globe-trotting Nazi hunter. This is the world that is most authentic and tangible to Joan. In this existence, Joan...