"Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She's the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome,...

"Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone-running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove herand her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her...

"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do--she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...

"When Juliette's sister, Clare, returns from her birthday week at the magical hotel upon a hill, she comes back changed...Deeply unsettled, Juliette uses the last of her savings to book a stay at the Splendor and unravel its mysteries. Run by the talentedyoung illusionist, Henri, the halls are full of magnificent delights and alluring distractions. Every wonder seems to twist Juliette's attention away from the answers lurking just beneath the surface"--...

Upon arrival in Cielis, Emily is escorted to the Academy where she is expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, but as the candidate pool grows smaller, a secret that threatens everything Emily is fighting for is slowly revealed.

When Jem Rosco - sailor, adventurer and local legend - blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. As abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again. The locals think nothing of it - until the lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out and Rosco's body is found in a dinghy. Superstition and rumour mix as another body is found in Scully Cove, and as DI Matthew Venn...

When the Mysterious Messenger brings the princesses a map revealing a magical secret room, they discover the room has no door and must work together to discover a hidden doorway.

"The City of Light hides a dark past... When talented young violinist Fay Knox arrives in Paris from England, the city feels familiar to her. But not because Fay has visited Paris before. Back home, she finds an old canvas bag with a mysterious luggage tag hidden in her mother's old trunk, and soon starts to realize her connection with the streets of Paris runs deeper than she ever imagined. As Fay traces the past, she is taken back to 1937 Paris...