runaway wives

Thirty-five-year-old Hazel walks out of her marriage to the powerful CEO of Gogol Industries--a monolithic corporation with questionable motives and unlimited resources--after her husband, Byron, demands she wear a microchip in her brain that will link the two permanently in the first ever mind-meld. As a response, Hazel moves in with her oddball father and his lifelike sex doll and tries to carve out a new life for herself away from the secure compound she came from and amongst a community of misfits. But Byron doesn't take her leaving lightly and will do anything it takes to get her back.

Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.

"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels has finally summoned the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband Norman for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason--Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery...a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. He's very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind. Rosie's only hope for salvation may lie in a far more dangerous place, where she must become her own myth and the woman she never knew she could be"--Back cover.

"It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. A year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded--physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger."--.

Tess Monaghan is called to help Mark Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who grudingly gives important information, find his family that simply vanished. Tess is able to locate the runaway wife and family, moving furtively with an unremarkable stranger. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance unravels as memory leads to rage to murder.--.

A wife writes letters to her husband about the truth of her marriage and hides them in the thousands of book she has collected over the years, but when she disappears off a beach in Dorset, England, clues to what really happened are found in her writings.

In early-1970s Detroit, African-American teenager Rae Dodson struggles to care for her ill father, who suffers debilitating migraines, after the departure of her mother and tries to make sense of her parents' dysfunctional relationship and her own future.

Abandoning her husband and nine-year-old son, Peggy takes her three-year-old daughter, Karen, and hides out in a housing project where she creates new identities for herself and Karen as African Americans.

Compelling and inspiring, Sanctuary is a harrowing love story of the power behind revenge, the price for freedom, and the solace found in friendship. It portrays characters both tender and flawed whose search for meaning beings them to a moment of shocking and profound truth.

Lily arrives in Montreal as a mail-order bride only to be rejected by the man she is suppose to marry, but his brother takes pity on her and decides to marry her, and after her daughter is born, Lily abandons the family and leaves them with a diary explaining that she is not who they think she is.