In the middle of the night, in a house in suburban Minneapolis, intruders murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. Other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- are also here. Some, like Luke, are in Front Half, while others graduated to Back Half. In this most sinister of institutions, the director and her staff...

In the long-awaited conclusion to her breathtaking Chesapeake Bay saga, Nora Roberts returns to Maryland's Eastern Shore and her beloved Quinn family. Seth Quinn, now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, is settling down there amid all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. A lot has changed in St. Christopher since Seth left. The most intriguing is the presence of Dru Banks, a wealthy city girl who's opened a florist...

A single mother discovers a scheme in her son's book to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather and sets out to execute the plan at any cost.

"Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel--The Vipers. They run this town and everyone in it. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. Yes, sold me. They own me now. I'm theirs in every sense of the word. But I've never been meek and...

Cathy Glass recounts her time as a foster caregiver to eight-year-old Aimee, who was finally brought into the foster system after years of physical and mental abuse.