Bohjalian, Chris

In January 1945, in the waning months of WWII, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from the Russian front to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.

Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.

"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Kristin and Richard's life rapidly spirals into nightmare."--Provided by publisher.

In 1955, Florence Police Department investigator Serafina Bettini looks into the murders of the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage that, in 1943, found their estate taken over by the Nazis and turned into their prison; and, as she gets deeper into the case, Serafina learns details about the pasts of the victims and her own tragic history.

Hoping to make a fresh start, airline pilot Chip Linton, the sole survivor of a plane crash, moves his family into a Victorian house in New Hampshire. Unbeknownst to them their new home may have a supernatural presence.

Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria during World War I to deliver food and aid to war refugees on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia. There she falls for Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has joined the British Army in Egypt. Years later in present-day New York, novelist Laura Petrosian digs into her Armenian heritage and finds love, loss, and long-buried secrets.