As a result of drinking the liquor of some strange Dutchmen, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later to a much-changed world.

Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son's biological mother upends Decker's home life.

When she receives an anonymous gift that is linked to a century-old string of gruesome unsolved murders--and her own troubled past--Rowan soon discovers that the town's violent history was only the beginning as a twisted killer sets out to make sure everyone pays for their sins--in blood.

When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.

On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...

"During a summer of secrets and lies, temptation and revelation, two sisters will rely on each other to find the humor in their personal catastrophes, the joy in their triumphs, ... and the strength to keep hanging on"--

Maggie Montgomery arrives in America from Ireland under the premise of visiting family, but really, she intends to stay in the Land of Opportunity, and soon she meets Adam, a black sheep whose past may come in the way of their love.

When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his ques

"A beautiful jogger, drained of blood, dismembered, then meticulously reassembled on the the grass in Central Park. Plummeting elevators, collapsing construction cranes, apartment explosions--all creating a bloody, senseless puzzle. Detective Frank Quinn knows that even while the slayer is taunting the cops and the pubic, he's also screaming to be caught. But Quinn will have to risk everything he holds precious to bring in this killer." ------cover...