Calvin Dexter, a small-town attorney and secret vigilante, is hired to bring Serbian warlord Zoran Zilic to American justice for the murder of volunteer aid worker Ricky Colenso, but he finds his efforts hindered by CIA agent Paul Devereaux who has another purpose in mind for Zilic.
Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the "Cresties" and their poorer counterparts as they spend a summer dealing with the fallout of their breakup.
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.
Dorie struggles to adjust to life at the National Academy for Gifted Youth, where she realizes her advanced skills in science won't get her as far as they did in her old school, and as she conducts a social experiment that will turn her rival from geek to chic, she wonders if the scientific method can be applied to real life.
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work as maids and nannies for their classmates. But their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
Stephanie Plum, a New Jersey fugitive apprehension agent, is met with a plethora of challenges, family-related and otherwise, as Christmas approaches--not the least of which is the appearance of a strange, sexy man in her kitchen.
