Piper Manning's about as tough as they come. She raised her siblings and they've thankfully flown the coop. When a storm hits, she runs into a tall, dark, and brooding stranger, Camden Reid. When the secretsácome out, it changes everything Piper thinks she knows about her family, herself, and Cam. Can she find a way to outrun the demons?
The Arrest is when everything quit working. Before Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a fairly good life as a Los Angeles screenwriter. Now, Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, is in rural Maine when an old college friend shows up, smashing his way across a fragmented, phantasmagorical United States in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor.
Rome 37AD. The emperor is dying. The power struggle has begun. When the ailing Tiberius thrusts Caligula's family into the imperial succession in a bid to restore order, he will change the fate of the empire and create one of history's most infamous tyrants, Caligula. But was he really a monster? Forget everything you think you know. Let Livilla, Caligula's youngest sister and confidante, tell you what really happened. How her quiet, caring brother became the most powerful man on earth. And how, with lies, murder and betrayal, Rome was changed forever.
1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last look at the crowded platform, the shabbily dressed evacuees, and a rude little boy sticking his tongue out. At first Eve is happier than ever at Drake's Farm. It's a different world that invites fresh starts, and so when Eve runs into the boy from the station, Johnny Durrell, they call a truce and soon become firm friends. The war might be a distant reality, but the arrival of Connie Hale makes every day a battle. Connie is stuck up and spiteful - and Johnny's new best friend. Will Eve fight for Johnny or concede defeat?
Lily Larkin is the youngest of six and the least important member of her talented, argumentative, temperamental family. With their father dead and their mother a stranger to them, she must stay at home and keep house whilst her elder siblings go out to work.
LA detective Dobbs and FBI agent Gimble race against time and across state lines to stop a deeply deranged killer whose dark, twisted MO is outside the range of logic or experience.
Ida grew up with neighbors Jackson and James and to each other the three formed a family unit -- not drawn from blood but from a deep need to fill a void in their single-parent households. But as the three mature and emotions become more complex, Ida and Jackson find themselves to be more than just siblings. When Jackson's sleepwalking develops into violent outbursts and James is hospitalized, Ida is paralyzed by the events that threaten to shatter her family and to pull them beyond her reach.
The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced to take a night job at Grant's clothing factory and sees them only at breakfast and on Sundays. But at nearly 18, with a job of her own, Dora is well able to look after her younger siblings. Then one morning their mother fails to appear for breakfast. When the gatekeeper at Grant's factory tells Dora that no one by the name of Harriet Bentley has ever worked there, the children grow worried. Knowing that their mother wouldnt deliberately deceive them, they enlist the help of a neighbour, a former policeman, to help them investigate.
Eleven-year-old Billy Clegg and his big sister Peggy disappear from their home in Leeds after a suspicious fire in a local mill. The owner says the children caused it by lighting fireworks on Mischief Night. Their widowed mother Betty, badly injured in the incident, doesn't know if her children are alive or dead. She prefers to think of them as being elsewhere.Following various adventures, the resourceful duo find themselves a long way away from bleak post-war Britain. Though successful, both of them are haunted by memories of the fire and the possibility that they caused their own mother's death. When the family is finally reunited, the repercussions continue.
Jamie may be a natural poker player, but she's still in debt to her Uncle Loyal. So when he demands Jamie's help cleaning up a murder late one night, she has no choice but to agree.
River Bommarito requires open-heart surgery, and her daughters are needed at home to run the family bakery and take care of their brother and ailing grandmother. But going home again has a way of forcing open the secrets and hurts that the Bommaritos would rather keep tightly closed.
Neville Roscoe, notorious and enigmatic, lives resolutely outside society, bound only by his own code of honor--until challenged by his desire for the one woman he cannot have. Miranda Clifford is a lady imprisoned by rigid respectability--until tempted by a passion beyond her power to deny. Flung together in peril, through danger and intrigue, they discover a love that is impossible to ignore--or keep.
Starting over in Hong Kong after a devastating family tragedy, journalist Paul Leibovitz investigates a mysterious illness in a remote village outside Shanghai, where he discovers that a powerful chemical conglomerate is polluting a local lake.
Desperate to buy the medication his sister Molly needs, Brody Ellis robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. It's Blair Mayo, the woman he bumped into, and she's got the missing billfold. Brody will get it back, but only if he steals her late mother's diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the house, he finds a gruesome crime scene. Brody knows he's been framed.
In 1938 England, orphan siblings Hanna and Jack are split up when a family chooses to adopt Jack, but after he is mistreated in his new home, Jack flees to join the navy and faces the possibility of fighting in the impending war.
Ruth has looked after her brothers for ten years since the death of their parents and believes that her role as head of the family will continue for the rest of her life. The arrival of a new, very determined sister-in-law makes change inevitable and Ruth struggles to maintain her superior role. Troubled by problems in her own relationship with the ever-patient Henry, she must recognize her priorities in time to salvage her own chance of love and happiness.
Ruth has looked after her brothers for ten years since the death of their parents and believes that her role as head of the family will continue for the rest of her life. The arrival of a new, very determined sister-in-law makes change inevitable and Ruth struggles to maintain her superior role. Troubled by problems in her own relationship with the ever-patient Henry, she must recognize her priorities in time to salvage her own chance of love and happiness.
1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir and take up a vacancy at Dr Lorne's fashionable spa, where she is reunited with her handsome brother, Boyd. Revelling in her new role and being close to Boyd, all seems well for Isla and the Scott family. But the siblings soon find that romance threatens to cloud their future. Boyd is bowled over by pretty new waitress Trina Morris, but is she playing games with his affections? Meanwhile, the rest of the spa is falling under the spell of a new doctor, Grant Revie...but will Isla?
Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand childhood home in rural Cornwall. Their lives are uncomplicated. With family and friends nearby and their free and easy living arrangements, they are as content as can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought was well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years.
Sean Doran has spent twenty years in third-world war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing his life's purpose: doing as much good as possible. But when burnout sets in, Sean finds himself drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts. There, he discovers that his steely aunt, dramatic sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own and that midlife romance gets complicated fast when the high school queen bee is involved.