Grant Ives is a teenager from Montana who is on the run with his problem-girlfriend, Liz. Bo Dutton is a struggling journalist in a failing marriage to Rita. Their neighbor, Mr. Alexander, a retired judge, has traveled the world but has reached the end of his days alone. When their lives intersect, disaster results and dreams die-leading authorities eventually to a woman in Seattle, Sophia Alexander, who must begin an urgent search for her missing husband before her own dreams die. This is a love story about the people we don't become, as we search for the one true version of our lives we...

Luke Distang, wanted by U.S. authorities for the murder of his addled mother, is hiding in plain sight in Paris as a street sweeper. Lacking the skills to assimilate, he relies on three troubled women for survival and companionship: a young sculptor; an Algerian radio dispatcher; and a teenage runaway. Meanwhile, a bounty hunter, Nikolas Zaro, has picked up Luke's trail and is intent on bringing him to justice. Luke's father was convicted of the murder in Luke's absence. When Zaro meets Luke, however, he begins to doubt he has the right man. French anti-terrorism police close in as well,...

Aron Ash and his girlfriend, Lisa Hardrow, are kindred spirits, living in Chicago and riding waves of manic creativity together with volatile crashes. After two years, however, she suddenly ends it and leaves him for New York, he believes, but he wakes up from a long, drunken night suspecting instead he has killed her and disposed of her body in Lake Michigan. An erratic journey follows, as seen through Aron's troubled psyche of contrast and contradiction, to the West Coast and back, as he tries to quiet his conscience and learn, or hide, the truth about Lisa and himself-all the while keeping...