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Je m'appelle Léo. J'ai 34 ans. Je suis musicien au chômage. A la grande satisfaction de mes parents, qui me l'avaient prédit. Je suis célibataire depuis peu. Sophie, qui payait le loyer de notre minuscule appart au sous-sol d'un triplex, vient de me larguer. Pour aller vivre dans un loft perché au sommet d'une de ces tours pour riches du centre-ville. Pour compléter cette présentation de mon illustre personne, si ma proprio se fâche, je passerai bientôt du statut de candidat à l'itinérance à celui de clochard diplômé.

Le curé nous a dit : « Jusqu'à ce que la mort vous sépare. » Ça, je le refuse. De retour d'un voyage d'affaires, Thomas retrouve sa femme Catherine qui, pendant son absence, s'est métamorphosée. Femme aimante, elle devient agressive ; sa douceur devient violence. Thomas n'y comprend plus rien. Aucune piste, aucun indice pour expliquer ce changement. Pour faire la lumière sur cet événement et se réapproprier sa vie, Thomas devra emprunter un passage qui le mènera au coeur de la pire des tourmentes. Jusqu'où sera-t-il prêt à aller par amour?

When Annika Torrey is diagnosed with cancer, she has no one in her life she can turn to.  Divorced and estranged from her fundamentalist family, she sells her life insurance policy for cash, hoping to live out her final days in peace. But then Annika is given a rare second chance. Meanwhile, struggling real-estate agent Matt Campbell is drowning in debt. Desperate to save his career and marriage, he lets an old friend invest his money, but the big payout he's promised never materializes.

After her mother's sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability, Karen begins to feel consumed by the isolation of her new role. On top of that, she's weighed down with guilt over her years spent keeping Kelli and their independent-to-a-fault mother, Irene, at arm's length.

Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself stranded in Addis Ababa - her birth place.Grieving her mother's recent death, Dessie heads to see her grandfather, the Shaleqa - compelled as much by duty as her own will. But Dessie's conflicted past stands in her way.

Having retreated to the idyllic Polynesian island of Bora Bora to savour and lament the lost past, Harry Lindstrom finds himself drawn into a strange relationship with a raven-haired, B-list movie actress and her invalid husband. Harry learns from the amiably grotesque Inspector Theophil Queequeg that they are leaders of a virulent religious movement, and that the woman is far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. Back in Toronto, she reappears with a disturbing capacity to make Harry wonder about the moral justifications for murder.

As the only survivor of a horrific car crash, Lila Amberson believes she is on the road to recovery after she is released from the hospital. Her memories of the accident are blurred though and a series of unsettling incidents leave her fearing for her safety. Does she have survivor's guilt or is something more sinister at play? Jack Foley is reeling from the shock of losing his sister in the crash, so when he first meets Lila, he lashes out, blaming her for Stephanie's death. But when Lila gives him a locket that she believes belonged to his sister, it presents more questions than answers.

This is the predicament Polly Cooke faces when she returns to her new home. The first weeks in the house had been idyllic, but soon Jacob, a local man, is watching her. What does he want and why is he so obsessed with Polly? In a situation where nothing is what it seems, you might end up regretting letting some people in.

Ruby Dunkin is in an abusive marriage. Her best efforts aren't enough to shield her two children from an abusive father whose cruelty knows no bounds. Their volatile situation ends in tragedy when Ruby's eldest son, Billy, is torn away from everything he loves. Consumed by hatred and self-loathing, Billy becomes the thing he hates the most-his father. Chelsea Wyatt, a senior in high school, goes missing after work one night, never to return. Her parents are devastated, only knowing this kind of tragedy from the news.

Teenage burn survivor Wilder Tate begins high school ashamed of his disfigurement. He finds an outlet tapping into his one-dimensional basketball talent as a shutdown defender and courts his cheerleader dream girl, only to endure heartbreak and setbacks that drive him to have a tissue-expander operation to rid himself of his scar tissue for good, but at what price? The operation costs him his basketball career and puts a wedge between him and his best friend, his mother, and his classmates.