"When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Eve's entire life came into focus (delete reference to forensics--that happened later, right?--) and nothing was going to stand in the way of giving her daughter a wonderful life--the kind of life she herself never experienced. And then, the unthinkable happened. On an ordinary class trip to a local park, seven-year-old Bonnie vanished. Eve found herself in the throes...

Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. Doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite Southern California PR firm, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, who also happens to be the father of Maggie's estranged best friend. Senator Paxton's young female aide has been found murdered, and Maggie must run damage control to prevent the scandal from growing.

1994: Professor Richard Aldiss is teaching a night class...from a prison cell. In 1982 he was convicted of killing two female grad students with an axe and decorating their bodies with the novels of recluse Paul Fallows. The class is asked to uncover Fallows' identity using the Procedure, a game that reveals clues inside his novels. Alex Shipley, now a Harvard professor, had succeeded, leading to Aldiss's acquittal. But the crime has just been repeated...

Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and a master of his profession. But one career simply can't support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife's fledgling art gallery. Then, at an art opening, he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also mentions that he owns a priceless lost Rubens painting ... and Brown happens to dabble in art theft. But Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that's ever happened to...

Vanessa Munroe deals in information - expensive information - for corporations, heads of state, and anyone else who can pay. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Vanessa became the protégé of an infamous gunrunner at fourteen, and earned the respect of dangerous men. After a decade of building a new life in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. Pulled into the mystery of a missing girl, Vanessa finds herself back in the land...

Meet Mickie Mezzonatti and Junior "Junne" Salerno, a lovable pair of cops-turned-attorneys who struggle - sometimes dangerously, sometimes hilariously - to corral and defend their clients, most of whom are guilty. Junne and Mickie are attempting to spring charismatic drug lord Slippery Williams from jail. They owe Slippery big time: he once saved their lives. But his case is much more complicated and far more perilous than they thought.

A year after the murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane reconnects with former adversary Barclay Reid, who upon losing her daughter to a drug overdose has launched a campaign against Russian drug trafficking, only to be accused of murdering a dealer.

They call it the Taskforce. Their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government, protected from the prying eyes of Congress and the media. Built around the top operators from across the clandestine, intelligence, and special forces landscape and designed to operate outside the bounds of U.S. law. Pike Logan was the most successful operator on the Taskforce, his instincts and talents unrivaled-until...

"Former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he met first Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and reveal the truth of her disappearance-- no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, they make a shocking discovery that sheds new light on young Bonnie's abduction...