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Manuel Jordan has done time in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. After being released, he returns to the town where he committed the crime in hopes of seeking salvation. He ends up in a community center where he meets a pastor, who helps him out. Trying to find redemption for his sins, he befriends Adele, who just happens to be the sister of the boy he shot in the robbery. He also meets teenaged Sofia, a rich girl...

Twenty years ago, college student Dani Lancing was kidnapped and brutally murdered. The killer was never found. Dani's family never found peace. Thrust into an intense devastation that nearly destroys their marriage, Patty and Jim Lancing struggle to deal with their harrowing loss. Dani's childhood sweetheart, Tom, handles his own grief every day on the job--he's become a detective intent on solving murders of other young women, and hopes to one day...

Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, pediatrician Alex Beck still grieves for his beloved wife, Margot. When two bodies are uncovered near where Margot's body was found, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a video clip that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive.

In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. Hey Nostradamus follows the aftermath in various voices across two decades: the teenage victims whose ordinary preoccupations with sex and spirituality will never evolve past that moment; the parents whose exposure to their children's underground world threatens their deepest convictions; and those who come to know the survivors only later in life, unable to fully realize...

Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect. Years later his son returns and finds Marcella's bathing suit in his fathers closet and confronts her. When they fall into an affair of their own, their passion...

Morgan Winter is forced to confront her nightmares when she finds out that the man sent to prison for her parents' murder did not commit the crime. She was only 10 when she discovered her parents' bodies in the basement of the Brooklyn shelter where her mother worked. The lead detective helped her cope on that horrendous night, and now that Monty is a private investigator, Morgan hopes that he can solve the case once and for all. Never happy with...

Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says the deal is done. The other killer gets the...

Julie Collins is stuck in a dead-end secretarial job with the Bear Butte County Sheriff's office, and still grieving over the unsolved murder of her Lakota half-brother. Lack of public interest in finding his murderer, or the killer of several other transient Native American men, has left Julie with a bone-deep cynicism she counters with tequila, cigarettes, and dangerous men. The one bright spot in her mundane life is the time she spends working...

The telepathic bond between twins Mariana and Susannah is broken when Susannah decides to forge her own identity as a restaurant designer in Philadelphia, but when Mariana is brutally murdered, Susannah begins receiving hints that her sister is trying to communicate from beyond the grave to warn her that she could be the next victim.

When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.