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When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught a young chimpanzee to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, a student at Schermerhorn's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant.  A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it.

Aspiring actor August Greene just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York. There's only one problem: his conservative parents won't accept that he's transgender. And to stay with his aunt in the city, August must promise them he won't transition. But who is August when the lights go down? And where will he turn when the roles start hitting a little too close to home?

Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies' companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn't the comforting haven it seems.

We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.

Emma Caan is an art forger specializing in classic paintings commissioned by museums and the ultra-wealthy. But then collector Leo Sobetsky offers a chance to return to her own artistic dreams, with strings attached.

At an elite private school in the Colorado mountains, Natalie is only an office assistant. When she and two of the school's moms compete for the same lover, tensions break and bodies will be left in its wake.

Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell. Linelle is about to turn fifty and her only source of joy is an on-line affair with her very first love, Teddy Cornwell. Years ago, Providence was the site of Jeremy's first great love and first great heartbreak, and maybe he'll look her up when he's back in town. Three people hope to rediscover love and reconnect with their past, to deadly effect.

Forty-year-old Emma has a good life until she begins displaying symptoms her insane mother once did: lost time and an inability to sleep. Now she must unravel the past to protect the present.

Hornclaw is an assassin. But now, at sixty-five and nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. As Hornclaw's world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.

A group of four friends reconnect on a planned African safari. They hope to put away that horrible night, all those years ago. But after arriving, they find themselves completely alone.