Did fate send her a villain with the blackest soul...or a lover with The Truest Heart. Her name is her only crime, yet Lady Gillian must take refuge in a humble cottage on the on the stormy Cornish coast, hiding from a king who seeks her death for her father's treason. Now destiny has sent Gillian a cure for her loneliness: a handsome shipwrecked stranger washed ashore on a perilous tide who requires a kind lady's gentle touch to heal his broken body...

Emily has never been satisfied with the pious and rigid world she is expected to fit into, and when her creative talent and independent spirit refuse to be suppressed by her father's wishes that she marry and settle down, she defies her family's better judgement and travels to the wild coast of British Columbia.

When she hears that her younger brother Danny has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from her vow never to return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave immediately after the funeral, but instead soon finds herself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father, the man who owns the town's sole industry, an iron foundry, and in effect runs the lives of everyone who lives there....

A collection of short stories by bestselling author Faye Kellerman that explore sinister family ties, murder, and mystery.

Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him.

Ex-lawyer and newly appointed senator Ben Kincaid comes to the defense of Supreme Court justice Thaddeus T. Roush, who, right after his appointment, admitted on live television that he was homosexual and whose partner is the prime suspect in the killing of a young woman.

Stone Barrington is forced to take con man Herbie Fisher as a client, with the goal of taking down the notorious Mafia boss Carmine Datilla. With the help of his ex-partner Dino, Stone investigates the boss called 'Datilla the Hun' and his crime family, encountering danger and intrigue at every turn. It's a ticklish situation that could lead to his ending up at the bottom of Sheepshead Bay if he's not careful.

Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year-old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing becomes increasingly disturbed by the suspicion surrounding her husband, Peter, in regard to the mysterious deaths of his first wife and a high-school senior.

Disabled millionaire Foster Speakman hires disgraced football hero Griff Burkett to impregnate his wife Laura, a plan that results in an obsessive love affair and life-threatening consequences.