For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the...

"Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace: he has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Picture this: a dinner party at their perfect home, the conversation and wine flowing. They appear to be in their element while entertaining. And Grace's friends are eager to reciprocate with lunch the following...

"When young lawyer Lily marries Ed, she's determined to make a fresh start. To leave the secrets of the past behind. But then she takes on her first murder case and meets Joe, a convicted murderer whom Lily is strangely drawn to. For whom she will soon be willing to risk almost anything. But Lily is not the only one with secrets. Her next-door neighbor Carla may be only nine, but she has already learned that secrets are powerful things--that they...

Dr. Jonathan Ransom becomes involved in the mysterious world of espionage and tries to determine the motives and loyalties of his wife Emma, a dangerous undercover agent, when the scary consequences of a 1980 crash of an American B-52 bomber on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan come to fruition thirty years later.

LAPD detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus head to New York to assist in the investigation of the murder of his half brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. A twisted and perilous journey leads them through a maze filled with danger and lies.

"It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter's teachings--his Bible is their 'book of strange new...

While investigating two brutal murders, Detective Pete Decker, with help from his temporary partner and wife Rina, uncovers ties to a crime from twenty-years earlier.