When the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team is attacked, agent Web London is the sole survivor. Living with questions and guilt, he sets out to discover what really happened that night, as forces from all sides try to stop him.
Ten years after Izzy Stone's mother shot her father and was commited to an insane asylum, Izzy;s foster parents enlist Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-abandoned state asylum. Izzy finds letters from an eighteen year old girl, Clara, who may have been sent there even though she might have been sane, causing Izzy to question whether her mother's act was one of insanity or caused by something else.
Tragedy strikes the Peterson family when their seventeen-year-old son Johnny dies in a car accident, but in the days that follow the accident, Johnny appears to his mother and younger brother to offer them hope and strength for the future.
Kate Morrison, orphaned at the age of seven, grows up seeing her brilliant older brother Matt's failure to further his education as a tragedy, and feeling somewhat guilty about her own accomplishments, and it is not until years later that she finally sees the damage her faulty thinking has caused.
Colorado psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory's already tense personal and professional relationships become even more strained when Michael McClelland, the man convicted of raping and murdering Gregory's sister, escapes from the mental institution in which he was incarcerated and comes looking for the people he blames for putting him away.
A single father, enraged after hearing his fourteen-year-old daughter may have been taken advantage of at a party, attacks an innocent high school boy, costing the boy an eye, and finds himself facing charges that could cost him his children.
When his brief romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is emotionally devastated and vows to find the man who killed her and bring him to justice.
High school senior Quentin Coldwater's real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory, his life becomes a dangerous adventure.
"In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great"--Publisher.
Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.
