Rawlings, Oklahoma, 1945. Johnny Henry is coming home from the Pacific, and his estranged wife, Kathleen, secretly watches him step off the train to a hero's welcome. Misunderstanding and tragedy had destroyed their marriage right before he shipped out. Now, when a disturbed stalker plunges Kathleen into a real-life nightmare, her only hope is Johnny, and a love that can bring two hearts through every battle, especially the one within.

Back when she was plain starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart, and vanished from her life. Later on in life, with a brilliant career, she sells her house in Hollywood for Chula Vista. There she meets Lex Sanders, a wealthy rancher and breeder of Arabian horses. There's something familiar about those smoldering eyes... something that triggers long-buried memories of passion so pure and perfect it couldn't possibly last.

A "plus-size" pop culture reporter discovers her ex-boyfriend has been writing about their love life, describing it as an "act of courage."

As the nations of the earth attempt to control the children trained at Battle School, Peter Wiggin continues to consolidate his power with the help of Bean and Petra.

For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotomy of happiness: a loving family, good freinds, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime'. This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'Goodness'

Ehrenreich highlights the people who've done everything right--gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumés--yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. Armed with a plausible resumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a white-collar job--undergoing career coaching, personality testing, and an image makeover. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected....

Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family--something he has never known--but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies--old enemies from...

Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Lew's therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him...

Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Harston returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in the crimes.