When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside--but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park--a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore--Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives...

Lush, exclusive Spyder Island is home to many of the world's billionaires. Years ago, Gretchen Spyder, daughter of the island's namesake, gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now Gretchen and her father are trying to get them back. The twins' adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders' wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the...

To Carley Wells, words are the enemy-her tutor's innumerable SAT flashcards; her personal trainer's "fifty-seven pounds overweight" assessment; and the endless reading assignments from her English teacher, Mr. Nagel. When Nagel reports to her parents that she has answered "What is your favorite book?" with "Never met one I liked," they decide to fix what he calls her "intellectual impoverishment." They will commission a book to be written just for...

1936. Tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. She joins Roosevelt's Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a traveling librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky. Along her route, Cussy faces doubters...

Kay Lansing, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy Carrington family, overhears an argument at the New Jersey estate as a child that proves crucial when as an adult she marries Peter Carrington who is subsequently charged with murder.

Former football player Griff Burkett, out of prison after a five-year sentence for racketeering, takes a paraplegic Texas millionaire up on his offer of a half a million dollars to impregnate his wife, Laura--by natural conception--and finds himself falling for her while trying to avoid being pinned for an unsolved murder by the corrupt detective who arrested him before.

England, 1852: Paid companion to the Hathaway sisters, Catherine Marks is attracted to her employers' older brother, Leo, despite their constant bickering. Leo must marrry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home, so Cat agrees to a marriage of convenience with him, but the secret she is hiding threatens them both.

Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to find the missing teenage son of a recent governor and track down an arsonist that is burning San Francisco's most beautiful homes, with the owners still inside.

When lawyer Patrick O'Neill agrees to resurrect an old mystery and challenge the Blackstones' legacy of greed and corruption, he doesn't expect to be derailed by the kindhearted family heiress, Gwen Kellerman. She is tasked with getting him to drop the case, but when the mystery takes a shocking twist, he is the only one who can save her from danger--