Melissa Gale is a federal investigator who comes to realize that a student of the monstrous Nazi torturer Josef Mengele is still alive and has been patiently planning acts of genetic terrorism. What's worse, she finds the plot involves her own unborn child.
Fourteen-year-old Mary MacNamara, raped and impregnanted by her own father, becomes a pawn in the political battle between pro-life and pro-choice advocates in Ireland.
Shopaholic Becky Bloomwood is enjoying her pregnancy, especially buying baby clothes and accessories, until she begins to suspect that her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be her obstetrician.
Ethna O'Keefe returns to the small Irish town of Uggala pregnant and alone, but refuses to let the town's old-world traditions and beliefs hold her back and prevent her from finding love and happiness.
Draws on more than fifty case studies to examine the psychological factors that drive men to kill the women they love in cold blood, they carefully cover their tracks to point police in another direction as they investigate the crime.
Since he lost his wife and children in a fire, Peter has lived a closed off life on the coast of Maine, but when he meets a young pregnant woman on the run from her husband, he once again learns to open his heart.