Adult

The invite promised to celebrate “the greatest artist of the century.” Blanche Devereaux’s passionate dalliances are as plentiful as hot Southern nights, and surely one can’t be expected to remember all of one’s suitors. But when the Girls disembark the party’s ferry at a small Biscayne Bay island and meet their secretive host, the memories come flooding back: she a Radio City Rockette in her 20s, he the poor artist who could offer her nothing but his love. Fate drove them apart, but Declan, now the famous artist El Toro, professes that Blanche has always been his muse. A tropical storm knocks power out across the island, and when Declan is found dead the next morning, all eyes are on Blanche. Trapped at the estate with the other guests, the Girls must band together to find the true killer.

Beddou is six years old when he is sent off to Morocco. His mother gives him six amber beads to help him find his way home. That same month, a magnificent filly is born in Fes. For a brief, golden time, the mare belongs to the boy. But Beddou’s heart is broken when a soldier steals his horse and disappears. Finding her seems impossible, but he vows to try. Estelle finds a distressed Arabian mare wandering. She is determined to look after it like she does her brother. But soon her world is torn apart and she loses both the horse and her brother, and keeps searching for them. Thomas is hardened by his experience as a wartime veterinarian in France. He finds the mare and promises to protect her but he doubts his own ability to keep anyone safe. As the pathways of the search intertwine, these strangers’ journeys converge, propelling them to make momentous choices that will change their lives.

Aspiring writer Savannah’s scheme to meet novelist Bennett turns out better than she ever imagined: Savannah says "yes" to marriage and the two settle into Bennett's home. But just as Savannah thinks she has it made, cracks appear in her perfect new life. Bennett's behavior becomes dark and controlling, and everywhere, Savannah cannot escape the shadow of Bennett's first wife. Then comes an enigmatic warning: Bennett is not who he seems. The women that came before Savannah have disappeared. And Savannah could be next. Isolated and unsure whom to trust, Savannah tries to piece together the mystery of the man she married and the woman he married first. But Savannah has no idea what her husband is really hiding. And someone out there knows Savannah has secrets of her own. As these two writers will learn the hard way --- past really is prologue.

February 24 is the birthday of Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But he is desperate to get Tatyanna out of the country. With their home under siege, Tatyanna tries to make her way to safety in Poland. Also joining the refugees is Yulya, who is torn between getting her young children across the border and staying at the side of her husband, Symon, and her elderly parents, Petro and Oxana. As millions flee, Vlad and Symon join a volunteer civilians’ unit to fight. Sasha and Anton who are secretly lovers, stay behind to treat the never-ending waves of wounded. When the Russians bomb hospitals, the heroic couple finds themselves delivering babies. Through these stories Danielle Steel tells a gripping story of regular people surviving as a war rages around them.

When Tyler left Stone Mountain, he had no plans of returning. Eighteen years later, Tyler, now the frontman of a famous band finds himself returning to his hometown for a one-night-only benefit concert. As Tyler ascends the mountain, memories of his childhood come rushing back. At the concert, resentment simmers just beneath the surface, and Tyler finds himself confronted with faces new and old. UNDER THE FALLS is at once a propulsive thriller, a gut-wrenching portrait of a tight-knit rural community undone by the sins of its past and an unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become. 

It is the first Thursday in August when Mira drives a golf ball from her tee toward the practice net and the ball slams into Kenny. He’s dead before the ambulance even arrives. In the wake of this terrible accident Mira looks for comfort in all the wrong places: In her lover, in her mother, in the dead caddy’s little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. But when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira’s history of recklessness, and when Kenny’s father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once-promising young woman.

Years have passed since Galaphile and his life partner, Nirianne, established Paranor as a way to bring harmony to the Four Lands. Now their two sons are becoming men in a land of peace and it is a land that their eldest child, Abronja, finds rather boring. At 16, he longs for a way to prove himself. But when the excitement he has been longing for materializes, it is in the form of an old evil. Galaphile has always dreaded this wicked resurgence. Abronja was conceived while the dark sorcerer had control of Nirianne, and Galaphile has always feared that a spark of malevolence lives on in his beloved child. Abronja, for his part, is certain he will never be corrupted by evil. He is fully committed to his fatherʼs vision for peace and is determined to make his name by finally destroying the monster that has targeted his family. But tangling with dark magic is not a thing to be taken lightly.

Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy. Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in our world are the fiends and the Maynes are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families. But when Mourning’s estranged father demands that Mourning return to the fold, he has to decide whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family or to forge his own destiny. Because along the way home, he will meet Key, a black-market seller of human souls, and Quinn, an artist who may hold the dark truth behind the fate of the fiends. Alone, they have all struggled with the darkness of their natures...but together, they might find a path out of the shadows.

In 1998, Ed Park wrote a memoir and saved it to the vanishing technology of the floppy disk, losing it for more than 20 years. Until one day, emptying out an old, unmarked box in his family’s cramped New York City home, he came across a hefty manila folder. Out slid the only remaining copy of THREE TENSES. The piece of writing that Park found --- “a voice lesson, a language experiment, an autobiography with lies, a document of sustained artistic bliss of a sort that I have never found again” --- was an assemblage of beguiling anecdotes, sly observations and collected esoterica, produced within the confines of the shoebox apartment of his 20s and only now allowed to see the light of day. Two Ed Parks emerge on the page: within the prose of the young, struggling writer arises the voice of the artist he would become.

Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Lost and freezing on the shore, Nina stumbles upon Sunrise --- a town of the Old West that is strangely well maintained, but seemingly abandoned. A place that holds the missing link to a ghost story 100 years in the making. Sand Daw’s golden boy Coll is putting the finishing touches on the town’s annual historical reenactment. But when an author comes to him with questions, it threatens to upend everything he thought he knew about the city. Town founder, gunslinger and legendary pulp hero Anton Vargas returns to Sunrise and quickly takes charge of a group searching for a missing boy. But who really is Vargas? What does he know about the boy’s disappearance? These three strangers are separated by time. But Sunrise’s many secrets are like gunpowder: quiet, contained, until they encounter a spark.