Widow Kelly Carlsen has been through a lot since the death of her husband three years ago. Reported to the police for murder by her vindictive mother-in-law, she was suspected of poisoning her husband, jailed away from her son, and nearly went to prison before an autopsy proved her husband died of an undiagnosed nut allergy. Traumatized by the experience, she and her son Dan have become very close while also dealing with tension from the emotional scars left by the experience. She keeps a close eye on him-and not just because of what's happened to her-she has reasons that are more genetic than environmental. Dan, like his grandmother, is a sociopath: manipulative, impulsive, and almost remorseless. Intensive therapy has helped him and his mother a great deal, but she has always worried that he is a ticking time bomb whose impulsiveness and lack of empathy will lead him straight to jail. So when Dan's girlfriend goes missing after the two get blackout drunk on a date and Dan believes he may have killed her, Kelly scrambles to cover for him. But his vindictive grandmother has other plans and no qualms about lying to get what she wants. Now, a desperate mother willing to take any steps to protect her son must face a grandmother with no conscience-and be prepared to suffer the consequences.
The accident took two lives. But it also took Hannah's memory . . .
Waking in the hospital with zero memories after a car accident that killed her mysterious passenger and the other driver, Hannah finds herself suddenly thrust into a life she doesn't recognize.
Doting husband. Two beautiful daughters. PTA meetings . . . it all feels foreign, and while her husband and doctors assure her she's recovering well and the memories will return, she's not so sure.
As she struggles to search for herself, she discovers strange inconsistencies-things that make her question everything she's been told.
When her memories finally return, will Hannah's past spell disaster for her future?
Contains mature themes.
Lonely and abandoned by her abusive husband, Mary is quick to accept the friendship of widow Ruby after saving her life during an apparent seizure on the New York subway. The older woman embraces Mary, urging her from her reclusive existence and back into life again. When Ruby rescues her after Mary's husband returns, her trust seems vindicated. But after Mary jokingly says she wishes he were dead, his body washes up in the East River, showing signs that his death was no accident. Red flags begin to pop up, leaving Mary to wonder who Ruby really is. She escaped from her husband in the past, but can Mary survive her new best friend?
Three years after the tragic death of her wonderful husband, Charlene continues to mourn. As she struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, she meets Samuel. Handsome and educated, this charming man is the perfect suitor, and Charlene slowly lets her guard down and opens her heart to him. But Samuel is not the man he appears to be. He has a dark compulsion-and an even darker secret. When he begins acting strangely, Charlene suspects something is wrong. Her fears only grow when she notices she's being followed. Unsure whether she can really trust Samuel, she takes matters into her own hands and starts to investigate. What she finds is beyond her worst nightmares. Will Charlene find the strength to confront the shocking truth before her life is shattered all over again?
When Laurie Whitman's husband Devon chokes her during a violent intimate encounter, she goes on the run to save her life. Then Devon's death in a horrifying fire brings her back, and her story makes her a celebrity and spokeswoman for those women in similar positions. But when it's discovered that the fire was arson, she becomes the prime suspect and focus of former-detective-turned-private-investigator Blake Gramercy's scrutiny. After a confrontation between them leads to them being shot at by a mysterious figure, the two must join forces to uncover the truth and seek justice while fighting for their own lives.
All Amelia has been told about the missing four years of her life is that her husband Carl found her after the car accident that killed her father, and they lived in the city together before moving to the suburbs. She has no reason to question his story, but she knows Carl, and she can tell he's holding something back. When he cries out in his sleep for Emily, she suspects he had an affair during her missing time and is trying to hide it from her. When flashes of memories begin to return, Amelia knows she can't sit back any longer. But once she opens the floodgates, the truth is more twisted than she ever could have imagined.
