family secrets

Natalia, a young doctor in route to an orphanage, learns of her grandfather's sudden death and the mysterious circumstances that led him far from home, and in her efforts to understand why her grandfather, a rational man, would choose to undertake such a journey leads her to uncover a story her grandfather never related to her about his childhood during World War II.

Danny North, a member of a clan of mages in exile in the human world who grew up in an isolated home in the mountains of West Virginia, finds his family in danger by secrets which were kept from him and enemies who will do anything to keep them in exile.

Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection between themselves.

Rookie paramedic Peter Webster begins an intense affair with Sheila, a troubled young woman he pulled from a car wreck, but their love is not enough to keep them together and Peter is raising their daughter alone years later when a phone call from Sheila alters their lives.

The Radleys, an eccentric family of vampires living in the suburbs, struggle but try to deny their natural instincts to avoid eating the neighbors and fit in with their peers.

After losing his wife on September 11, 2001, Gil Castle retreats to his family's isolated Arizona ranch, where he tries to cope with his own grief while learning about the hardships his father and grandfather faced throughout the twentieth century.

Seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson, trying to cope with the fact that his father committed suicide while they were out hunting, begins to question whether the gunshot wound was actually self-afflicted and takes it upon himself to uncover the true nature of the crime.

Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley feels very different from her bubbly parents and thinks only her best friend understands her, but a visit from Emma-Rose's great-aunt from Romania leads her to believe she could be a vampire.