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On the surface, Amy and Jason have the perfect marriage, but Amy is trapped in a nightmare with a controlling, violent husband. Then on a short cruise without Jason, Amy befriends Liz, a young woman traveling alone on her way to meet her birth mother for the first time. Liz looks so much like Amy that they could be sisters. When Amy regains consciousness after a terrible accident that takes the lives of many passengers, she finds that, because of a mix-up in personal effects, everyone believes she is Liz. Only she knows it is Liz who has gone missing, presumed dead.

David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group's horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind.When a fellow survivor commits suicide, they finally reunite and share their stories. Long-repressed memories surface, defying understanding and belief. Why did their families go down such a dark road? What really happened on that final night? The answers lie buried at Red Peak.

Dans la petite ville de Cold Creek, Sadie, 19 ans, ne peut compter que sur elle-même pour élever Mattie, 13 ans. Abandonnées par leur mère toxicomane, les deux sœurs font de leur mieux pour garder la tête hors de l'eau. Le monde de l'aînée s'écroule quand Mattie est sauvagement assassinée. La police n'a aucune piste sérieuse. Sadie, elle, est convaincue de connaître l'identité du tueur. Partie sur les traces de celui dont elle a juré de se venger, elle disparaît à son tour.

Told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this novel draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.

When Kirsten awakens in the hospital, she has no recollection of being viciously attacked the night before. But then slowly, painfully, haunting details reveal themselves.

Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn't what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila's husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it's discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth.

Ever since her neighbor William cornered her in the barn, Misty must figure out how to get back to the Misty she was before, in this beautifully honest exploration of healing and of hope.

Juno was wrong about the Crouch family. She thought that they had the perfect life. But after overhearing a chilling conversation, she knows this could be her chance to make a few things right.

Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when she strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she's been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When the train arrives at Selena's station, the two women part ways, presumably never to meet again. But days later, Selena's nanny disappears.

Kirsty Woodhouse moves back to her native Wales and goes into business with her difficult mother managing a guesthouse. But when her estranged cousin Selena arrives, Kirsty becomes increasingly concerned for the safety of her daughters and her dream home begins to feel like her worst nightmare. Kirsty knows that once you invite trouble into your home, it can be murder getting rid of it.