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Having decided to take a year off between college and law school to work on a road construction project, twenty-three-year-old Simon Kozlowski is dismayed when he learns his job has been eliminated before it even started. Far from his Hiawatha, New Jersey home and without transportation, Simon falls into the graces of Alisha Caldwell, a sophisticated but mysterious socialite who claims she is an artist and businesswoman. Simon agrees to work for the forty-one-year-old single mother in a job he never imagined himself doingproviding companionship and childcare to five-year-old Corey Caldwell. As time passes, Simon slowly learns that all is not what it seems. There are secrets everywhere he turnsin the Caldwells house, in the lives of Alisha and Corey, and in the lives of his family. Working to unravel these mysteries leads Simon deeper into the human heart than hes ever dared go and into a life he never imagined himself living. He wonders if hes in control of his own destiny.
Two years after his wife’s tragic disappearance, bestselling author John Mastenhock has quit writing and left his Georgia home to take up a life of debauchery. But what John does not know is that his life is about to be turned upside down. After he is contacted by a bankrupt publishing company and told they hold secret information regarding the whereabouts of his missing wife, Lorry, they offer him a simple deal. John writes the struggling company a bestseller, and they hand him the info—and maybe the keys to his old life. Yet writing another book is anything but easy for a haunted man battling internal demons and a troubled past. While John works on the manuscript and searches for Lorry...
Leslie Calloway is a twenty-eight-year-old volunteer at a 1-800 line, designed as a call center for children whose parents are out of the house. One snowy New England night, she receives a panicked phone call from a young boy named Justin. He says, "There's a man in my house," and Leslie is the only person who can save him. Armed with only a handheld receiver, Leslie must use experience, intuition, and love to talk her young caller through his ordeal. The hushed conversations lead to a shared intimacy which forces Leslie to take a closer look at the boy's domestic situation, which makes her peer unwillingly into the darkened corners of her own life and state of mind. As the intruders get closer to Justin and become all the more threatening, Leslie realizes that despite the frigid weather, she must get the boy out of his house and to safety. Danger soon takes an unexpected personal turn. By then, it's too late to turn back: Leslie is part of Justin's life, and she will stop at nothing to keep an innocent child safe from monsters of the night.
It is September 1996 when college roommates Dennis Carew and Curt Tobinesk realize they share the same frustration about academic life and the separate demons they battle every day. After they decide on a whim to take life by the horns, the young men set out in the dark of the night on an unplanned road trip from Pennsylvania to Delaware in search of Gretchen Sorenz, Denniss lost love. The night is long and the road is full of secrets. To pass the time, Dennis relates the story of how he met, fell in love with, and ultimately lost the girl of his dreams. Curt has his own story to tell. This night marks the seventh anniversary of his fathers death, a loss Curt has never completely overcome. A...
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