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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up.

Public defender Julia Geary's star is rising, and now she's got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man.

In 1997, Eve Foster's daughter, Kelsey, runs away to New Mexico and vanishes without a trace.

Hard-boiled crime writer Will Ford might be critically acclaimed, but he's every bit as drunken and disreputable as the ne'er-do-well private eye in his novels.

Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive-aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudi

The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times.

It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn.

Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers—Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is

Santa has it so easy: a workforce of elves to make the presents, a team of reindeer to deliver them, even a hi-tech factory!

On Sundays, everyone gathers at Granny's for Soul Food. But today, I don't go to the backyard or the great room. I follow Granny instead.

When the mysterious letter arrives by courier, Valerie Cooper doesn't know what to make of it.

Isla has fled the city for small-town Missouri in the wake of a painful and exhausting year.

Hannah's life is almost perfect. She's a full-time mother to two young children and married to successful cardiologist Daniel. The only thing missing is a project of her own.

Best known for its influence on literary greats such as C.S. Lewis and later J.R.R.

Blame the booze, her shaky marriage, her troubled son, or a thousand other things, but Jewelann Jordan has one thing on her mind when she attends her class reunion: making sure her old crush Christ