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It's springtime in upstate New York, where the lilacs are in bloom and love is all around—even for Jessica James, full-time investigative reporter and part-time fool. Well, why shouldn't she be? Everyone else is in love: her mother, still honeymooning with the mischievous Charlie Browne; and her sometime lover, mobster Marcus Andrelli, who seems to have forgotten Jesse and taken up with another woman. For Jesse, though, love is literally in the air, with a handsome pilot named Mac Devlin.

Five detectives across five states are dead, victims of an assailant known as the Judge. As the murderer cuts across the country, the FBI invites Sam to be a part of the investigation. Sam is a county cop with an unsettled past and an uncertain future. She’s also a talented investigator with a knack for catching serial killers. Her skill set makes her an asset to the Bureau. It also marks her as a target.

Jessica James has a nose for a good story, but she isn’t sure how much she likes the story she’s getting from her mother’s charming, handsome new beau with the improbable name of Charlie Browne. Especially since the tale is attached to the Hare—a stolen painting that is now hidden under Jesse’s own bed. Jesse’s investigation into Charlie's background turns up a hole big enough to smuggle the Mona Lisa through, which has her worried about her romantic, not-altogether-practical mom.

The bright daylight and the shrill crow of Rusty the rooster joined her in welcoming another day, but her night time memory would not be denied as evident by the boot prints in the yard. But what Vicki witnessed on that warm southern night in the small town of Piney, Georgia would propel her into an unspeakable betrayal that would follow her into adulthood and send her on a journey of redemption.

For psychic Mira Morales, it begins when a crazed woman accosts a jogger and demands to know where she can find Mira. In a confrontation, the lunatic is killed by the jogger and turns to stone before she hits the ground. Mira reads the body and makes a startling discovery. The stone woman is from 2144, where the descendants of climate change survivors—Normals and White Crows—live in a giant dome. Crows represent nature’s rapid evolutionary leap to save humanity by endowing people with extraordinary abilities.

Suddenly Brooke Hayes's life is turned upside down. Again. For the past months she has fought to get it back together by overcoming her addictions, revitalizing her neglected stage career, and putting behind her the devastation left by her bitter divorce. She has also been a mother again to her nine-year-old daughter, Charly, whose upcoming visit has meant the world. Everything was fine.

When a freelance photographer stumbles across a dead body, she is plunged into a homicide investigation and is brought closer to her uncle and aunt, the only family she has. To a handsome police detective who holds her life in his hands. To a suspect who holds her heart. And to a killer who is closer than she knows—in this spellbinding thriller by a masterful new storyteller.

Fifteen-year-old Mary Lou Peters lives in the historic Southern Hotel in fictional Asheville, Maryland. Her life-long dream is to take over the hotel that her parents kept the same for so long. She discovers that she has an amazing gift that throughout these eight stories helps her solve previously unsolved mysteries, many having to do with the hotel’s eventful past. In the beginning, she has no friends besides friends of her parents. She meets all kinds of interesting people—her best friend Robby, energetic Julie, and even a few ghosts.

Celia (Garcia) Lundy was fifteen in the fall of 1998 when Abby Powell, one of her five friends who called themselves the Cricket Hunters, disappeared without a trace. Cops scoured the central Texas town of Oak Mott searching for Abby. Interviewed everyone. Brought in the Texas Rangers to assist. Three key suspects emerged and were focused on, but no evidence was found. Eventually, the case went cold, and the passage of time buried the truth of Abby Powell’s fate.

In a future where the U.S. has splintered into new nations, the Atlantic Coalition and Pacific Federation strive for equity and sustainability, while the original U.S. grapples with the consequences of traditionalism and deregulation. From the ashes of environmental and economic collapse, can a new form of democracy rise? Follow the intertwined destinies of Gov. Robert Callahan, Justice Marisol Reyes and Sen. Charlie McBride as they navigate this splintering and what follows.