Kathy Herman

At eighteen, popular Ivy Griffith likes nothing better than getting stoned with her boyfriend, Pete, and his basketball buddies-until one afternoon when a nightmare unfolds. Ivy watches in horror as her boyfriend and his friends murder a teammate and bury his body in a remote location. The four friends make a pact to keep the killing quiet, and Ivy flees her parents' Colorado home for college and never looks back. Now, after ten years of numbing her...

Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents' doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fianceee-less. As he struggles to find his life's purpose, he discovers the pieces of his life are not by chance.

Ivy Griffith has been released from jail after serving time for covering up the strangulation death of a high school classmate ten years earlier. She paid her debt to society. Kicked her drug habit. She's making a fresh start.

"Zoe Broussard stands in the shade of the live oak tree on rue Madeline and surveys her beloved Louisiana hometown. Wrought-iron galleries overhang the sidewalk lined with brightly colored shops, and the smell coffee wafts from the Cajun eatery she and her husband Pierce, own, which brings folks all the way from Lafayette for lunch or dinner. It seems like heaven. But it's about to become hell. A series of threatening anonymous notes is making her...

"Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force...Before she even has time to unpack her boxes, people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly--tied to red "shadows", or spirits of the departed Cherokee who once inhabited the land..."--p.[4]...

The Past Is Back Ellen Jones's hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence's memory is failing - though he can't seem to forget what he's been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Ellen realizes she never released her resentment and it's too late for reconciliation.

"When a bizarre houseboat explosion rocks the close-knit community of Baxter, firefighters, friends, and neighbors stand powerless as the McConnells' blazing hull sinks to the bottom of Heron Lake. Grief turns to outrage as new evidence proves there was one survivor -- and points to murder, something this sheltered community has never faced in its hundred-year history. In a race with the FBI, Jed sets out to track down the sole survivor, coping meanwhile...