psychological fiction

Native New Yorkers Elise and Donald are engaged and now live in Washington. As they adjust to their new environment, shopping for groceries with senators and pundits, Donald's old flame appears. Now Elise must conduct womanly warfare to keep her prize.

Tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, graduate students Julian Rose and Claire Marvel, spanning fourteen years of attempts at happiness while spouses, children, and misunderstandings block the way.

When Duane's life seems to fall apart, he shocks his hometown by living a Thoreau-like existence in the countryside, until he meets and falls in love with a lesbian psychoanalyst who wants to help him.

Charlene Cummins longs for a better life, and decides to steal the identity of Manhattan resident Vera de Sica, who struggles to stop Charlene's scam and rebuild her own identity.

Interior designer Zoe Luce, a woman who has the psychic ability to feel past emotions embedded in the walls of a room, hires private detective Ethan Truax to help when she senses one of her clients has murdered his wife, but she had not counted on Truax discovering her own deeply held secrets, and she had not planned to lose her heart.

"Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning ... past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them ... Their life-as she sees it-is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?"--Provided by publisher.

Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.

In this story told through poetry, all people are about to be legally required to dress and act gender neutral. During all this, Spark meets the mysterious Whistler whose gender is unknown.

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.