Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions...

"The third novel in the Shady Hollow mystery series, in which Vera Vixen takes on her most challenging case yet: solving the murder of a rat who appears to still be alive. Change is afoot in Shady Hollow, with an unusually tense election shaping up between long-serving Chief of Police Theodore Meade and Vera's beau, Deputy Orville Braun. But the political tension takes a back seat when resident eccentric Dorothy Springfield becomes convinced her beloved...

After commoner John Turner wins her love while posing as his noble friend for a bet, humiliating her in the process, Countess Letitia is determined to avoid him, but has trouble resisting his advances when they become neighbors.

"A successful architect living in Denver with his wife and son, Brad Denning is haunted by the memory of his brother. The last image he has of Petey is that of a skinny nine-year-old heading down the road on his bike."--Page 4 of cover.

En Edilean, Virginia, Sara Shaw aguarda con impaciencia el dia de su boda con el suductor Greg Anders. Ya se ha fijado la fecha, las flores estan encargadas y el vistido, listo. Pero apenas tres semanas antes de la ceremonia, Greg recibe una llamada telefonica en plena noche y se va sin dar ninguna explicacion. Dos dias despues, Sara ve, azorada, que un hombre se cuela en su apartamento por una trampilla disimulada en el suelo. El intruso asegura...

When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

"When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to...

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that his real wife is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's quest...

While clever Freddy the pig tries to find out if Mrs. Bean's long-lost brother is really who he claims to be, he also attends high school so that he will be eligible to play in the big football game between Centerboro and Tushville.

In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come. Eleven years later she is replaced. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to...