murder victims' families

The suspicious death of Lowell Hawthorne's CIA agent father, and the discovery of a cache of documents and videos, spurs Lowell to join forces with Samantha to seek out the complete truth about the 1987 hijacking of Air France 64, an incident in which his mother died, and Samantha, then a child, survived.

"Twenty years ago, college student Dani Lancing was kidnapped and brutally murdered. The killer was never found. Dani's family never found peace. Thrust into an intense devastation that nearly destroys their marriage, Patty and Jim Lancing struggle to deal with their harrowing loss."--Jacket flap.

Nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike looks back on the ten years since the murder of his younger sister Bliss, a rising figure skater whose unsolved death created a media circus that destroyed his parents' marriage and cast suspicion on him, keeping him from finding any sense of normalcy in his life.

Maya, having been convinced by her sister Rebecca and husband Adam to help with a relief effort after a devastating hurricane in North Carolina, is the victim of a helicopter crash, and while she struggles to stay alive in the wilderness, Rebecca and Adam, believing Maya is dead, find comfort in the arms of one another.

A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.

Rushing to assist the family of her murdered best friend, Ellie consoles reclusive widower Greg and nurtures eight-year-old Lucy, who has stopped speaking.