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Mia Daoud yearns to be free. Growing up in socially conservative Morocco, her imagination fired by her banker father’s charisma and political idealism, her doctor mother’s feminist example and social conscience, and the boundless possibilities suggested by her favorite authors, she learns to go after what she wants, even if it means jumping through fire to get it. Determined to be true to her sexuality and to differentiate herself from her adoring younger sister, she sets out in search of her place in the world --- from Casablanca to Paris to London, and against the backdrop of era-defining events like the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11, guided by a preternatural sense of justice and an unerring instinct for what makes her feel most alive.

Summer, 1969. Eleanor she might not remember how to sing or play guitar soon, so why not join the music festivals sweeping the country? Except Eleanor forgets to tell anyone where she's going. When her daughter, Leanne, discovers her mother missing, she enlists the help of her own daughter, Nora, to help her find Eleanor. The last thing Nora wants to do is hit the road. But then Nora hears her grandmother on the radio --- singing. Nora and Leanne hop in their Lincoln Continental for a cross-country road trip, always one step behind Eleanor, who has been dubbed the Dame of Rock n' Roll by none other than Johnny Carson. 

Giovanni Mason worked hard to become the first Black head concierge at Chicago’s exclusive and glamorous Ivory Hotel. But when Giovanni reunites with her former best friend, makeup influencer Natalie Moore, things get heated as a mending of fences morphs into a public argument in the hotel restaurant, and Giovanni loses her cool. Hours later, Natalie is missing. Evidence piles against Giovanni --- a ransacked, blood-spattered hotel room, fresh bruises on her body and a troubling gap in her memory from the last 12 hours. Detective Redding Stark is the only one unconvinced of Giovanni’s guilt. She sees disturbing parallels to a series of disappearances targeting Black women and believes Natalie’s case is part of something bigger. Together, she and Giovanni are pulled into a dangerous web of privilege, power and betrayal inside the walls of the Ivory Hotel.

As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina to help her sister, Addie, care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn to Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing years ago. Their connection brings comfort to Phoebe, while Celeste’s adult grandson, Liam, resurrects complicated emotions tied to Phoebe’s past. But the longer Phoebe spends in her childhood home, the more her recurring nightmares intensify --- bringing her closer to the shocking truth that irrevocably will change everything.

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. But when she loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder. Feeling sorry for herself, Alexis finds a bottle of vodka from her college days and goes on a bender, blacking out in the process. Only this time, she doesn’t wake up at home, or in the right city. Alexis is back in her college town in the year 2002. Convinced this is her chance to do things over, she heads to her dorm --- and comes face-to-face with her 18-year-old unruly self, who goes by Lexi. Getting acclimated to life in the early 2000s is the easy part. Dealing with Lexi is where things prove difficult.

Winifred Starbuck wants only one thing: to join her parents on their final merchant voyage --- from Nantucket Island to bustling San Francisco, then across the glittering Pacific to the distant ports of China. Yet renowned trade captains Nell and Peter Starbuck have forbidden their daughter from coming aboard on the adventure of a lifetime. So Winnie does what any strong-willed 18-year-old would do: she stows away. Once the ship sets sail, Winnie is plunged into turbulent waters, treachery and the thrill of life on the high seas. As she drifts farther from shore, and closer to fabled Canton port, she uncovers a long-buried secret --- one that reveals the truth behind her parents’ desperate fear. And as she continues to chart her own course, she’ll have to plumb the depths of her courage to take on a world far bigger --- and more dangerous --- than she ever imagined.

Hemlock Bay offers something for everyone. For families, for artists, for swindlers. And for murderers? That's what Rachel, the enigmatic heiress and brilliant amateur sleuth, is about to discover. When crime-beat journalist Jacob receives a visit from a fortune teller who insists he's had a vision of a murder soon to occur, Jacob consults with Rachel. Rachel rents a cottage at the seaside resort. Meanwhile, Basil is en route to Hemlock Bay, determined to murder a man he's never met. Could this be the murder foretold by the fortune teller? Whether pre-destined or plotted, a murder does occur. But as Rachel plunges deeper and deeper into the morass of mysterious events and suspects, and as alibis exonerate each suspect one by one, she begins to wonder whether she is equal to the case. Has Rachel finally mired herself in mystery she can't solve?

Janey Carter has a lot to be grateful for --- a home by the sea in the Scottish isles, a job that she loves, two kids who have successfully launched and a network of kind and supportive friends. And then, out of the blue, her 30-year-old daughter Essie announces she’s moving back home. Janey loves Essie dearly, but she was never the easiest to live with,. Yes, Essie Carter has just lost her job, can’t afford her rent in Edinburgh, and isn’t wild about moving back to the remote island community where she was raised. No sooner is Essie back under her mother’s roof than an unusual opportunity pops up: the shabby and unloved Seaside Cottages next door come up for sale. Mother and daughter slowly bond over the shared challenge, which delivers some much-needed revelations for Essie, and offers Janey a surprise second chance at love as well.

Blending fact and fiction, MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It's 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America's nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin's mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him. As Nazi agents and FBI operatives close in, all roads lead Einstein and Chaplin to a deadly showdown aboard the Santa Fe Super Chief as it races from Chicago to Los Angeles.

As teens, Annie, Lola, Vicky and Dylan stole the show in a legendary gender-swapped version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Two couples, one unforgettable summer --- until the closing-night party tore them apart, and not all of them knew why. Now, with lives that look nothing like they imagined, the foursome is called home by their beloved director for a one-night-only revival to save the theater and the town. Returning to Rhodes means facing everything they left behind: long-buried secrets, undeniable chemistry, and the chance to write a brand-new ending --- together.

When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summer she doesn’t expect to fall in love. But she does. Where she stays there is this mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophie’s careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manor’s owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retires --- including her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer. Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.

When Helen Wyatt is brutally murdered, her four best friends anxiously wait in the courtroom to ensure justice is served. But when her attacker is acquitted of all charges, the women decide to get revenge. Hypothetically, of course. The friends host a girl's night, each presenting a different way they would kill the culprit to avenge Helen. It's a silly thing, a way to ease their grief. Until, a week later, a murder is discovered that mirrors one of their imagined killings. Then another. What started as a cathartic exercise soon ends in carnage, with suspicion quickly falling on the four friends. Someone has discovered their secrets. And now, the women will have to hunt down who is framing them for murder. Or, even more chillingly, question who among them may be capable of being a killer themselves.

In 1990 in Washington State, the bodies of Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe and Kathy Brisbois were found on the banks of the Spokane River. For 22 years their brutal murders went unsolved. In 2012, a DNA cold hit pointed to Douglas Perry. A repeat assault offender, Douglas was currently incarcerated in Carswell, Texas. But there was a twist: The facility was for female prisoners. The man authorities hunted for decades was now Donna Perry. Her gender reassignment not only helped to mask the evil deeds of the past, it ended a life of childhood traumas and a pent-up rage unleashed on nearly 30 victims, according to Donna herself. Through total reinvention, she believed she’d finally slayed the monster within. BY THE RIVER'S EDGE is the astonishing true story of an elusive serial killer.

As a nine-year-old schoolgirl, Franca tells Gino that she will marry him one day, and against all the odds her prophecy comes true. Set in a mountain village in Abruzzo in the early 2000s, DARK IS THE MORNING is the story of two ordinary young people who fall in love and seem destined for a life of happiness. But there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession --- an obsession that will have heartbreaking consequences.

After yet another disastrous date where Jess is too awkward, too earnest, too whatever, she’s ready to put her romantic daydreams aside. Other than an enchanting Irish accent, her latest date is no prince charming. Then the night goes from bad to worse when she’s mugged in the parking lot and hits her head. Hard. Hard enough that when Jess wakes up, she’s in Ireland.The first person she meets is Eamonn, a quiet, gruff mechanic. Since Jess is stranded with no passport, cell phone, or way to get home, Eamonn becomes her reluctant knight in shining armor. Over the next 48 hours, they meander through the cobblestone streets of Dublin and explore the Irish countryside, sharing their deepest fears, quiet hopes, and softest aches. It’s a connection that is as electrifying as it is terrifying, because what if Jess falls asleep and Eamonn vanishes like a dream? 

Lazarus Holloway is no stranger to violent crime. The seasoned detective has built a career on weeding out the worst of the worst from the glittering streets of Las Vegas. But he never knew the worst could get this bad. The Bone Stalker is a new kind of murderous. His MO is brutal, calculated and ritualistic, removing only specific bones from his victims’ bodies. Each bone taken has a symbolic meaning...and they all tie back to Lazarus himself. As Lazarus digs deeper with the help of investigative partner and guardian ad litem Piper Danes, they discover the detective isn’t the only connection. But before they can unravel the web of lies that’s been spun through the city for years, the killer ensnares another innocent in his trap. Someone close to Lazarus becomes the bait. And he’ll stop at nothing to get her back --- even if it means embracing the darkness he’s spent his life fighting against.

Jo O’Mara, a young writer, lands a job working for Mimi Mott, a wealthy style icon. Famously private, Mimi has kept her past shrouded in mystery, but she is preparing to auction off her possessions, through them finally telling the story of her early life. Tasked with collecting the untold tales behind each auction lot, Jo peels back the layers of Mimi’s origin story and discovers it’s far darker than anyone ever suspected. Mimi and her sister, Pamela, grew up in the staff cottage on the grounds of an idyllic English country estate, working alongside their gardener parents --- but spirited Mimi hungered for more. One summer, the sisters were drawn into their employers’ privileged, intoxicating world --- until a shattering death at a high-society party tore them apart. Jo discovers both a missing auction piece and a missing sister and vows to find them no matter how dark the secret they expose.

Rhode Island’s picturesque Ocean House is the perfect setting for Kate Woodward and Conor Reid’s fairy-tale wedding weekend. But there may not be a happily ever after. When an old friend of Conor’s disrupts the rehearsal dinner and reveals a blindsiding secret --- a claim that she and Conor share a child --- Kate calls off the wedding, thinking things can’t get any worse. Until the next morning, when that same woman is found with her throat slashed. As investigators close in and suspicions mount, the evidence points to a mystery deeper than anyone imagined. The soundproof boat with telltale signs of something sinister. The mansion on the hill that lures in young girls and doesn’t let them go. A secret society whose members might be more familiar than not. And the truth of the dead woman’s past that draws Kate and Conor into a nightmare.