A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles.Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners).STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that ...

Pediatrician Erica Rosen is stymied when two of her patients don't respond to medicine as expected. When other patients later develop strange, unexpected illnesses, she is determined to get to the bottom of it.Meanwhile, the department's newest pediatrician, Dr. Nilsen, appears to be trying to steal her patients. Erica suspects he is after her job as the clinic director. She also discovers Dr. Nilsen has become romantically involved with her trusted assistant, Martha. One evening, ...

In this medical thriller, Dr. Erica Rosen is perplexed when she sees a young Chinese girl with blue eyes in her San Francisco pediatrics clinic. The girl's mother, Ting, is secretive, and Erica suspects she has entered the country illegally. Later, Erica encounters Ting's son and discovers he has an unusual mutation. Erica learns that Ting's children underwent stem cell gene editing as part of a secret Chinese government-run program.The Chinese government wants to murder Ting's son...

She comes home to mourn her father. She stays to uncover the shocking truth.When college student Berry returns to her family's small Southern California farm after her father's sudden death, she believes she's coming home to grieve and reassure her mother that she'll soon be back for good to run the farm. With farming in her blood, she is eager to bring new life to the failing farm through modernization and sound financial management after receiving her degree in agricultural econo...

Dr. Erica Rosen's world is turned upside down after a suicide bomber explodes amidst a large crowd entering Oracle Park baseball stadium, near her San Francisco home. Many are killed or injured, and police have no leads in solving the case.Erica becomes involved after a teacher of young autistic men calls her. The teacher believes her students are involved in the bombing but is afraid to contact law enforcement. She reaches out to Erica, who has experience with special needs childr...

She comes home to mourn her father. She stays to uncover the shocking truth.When college student Berry returns to her family’s small Southern California farm after her father’s sudden death, she believes she’s coming home to grieve and reassure her mother that she’ll soon be back for good to run the farm. With farming in her blood, she is eager to bring new life to the failing farm through modernization and sound financial management after receiving her degree in agricultural econo...

A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles.Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners).STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that ...

Struggling journalist Paige Remington leaves San Francisco for South Africa, determined to revive her failing career with a hard-hitting exposé on rhino poaching.Danger strikes almost immediately when poachers ambush Paige’s tour group. She survives only because she is rescued by Spencer, a man who claims to work for the FBI. He says he wants to save the rhinos and offers to help her with her story, but as he exposes her to a world she would never see on her own, she becomes embroil...

**From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year.**In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that keeps him from sleep. News banners run across his phone: Fentanyl Crisis;...

What is that?Jeez. Put it down.I'm in the middle of practicing.Why have you opened a bike repair booth?You could've opened a robot or drone booth or something.60% of guys from the Engineering Departmenttend to meet girls at volunteer clubs.That's right. That's called volunteering.Girls like men who sacrifice themselves and volunteer.On...

What makes a good serial killer?Nurture or nature?No one knows for sure.He killed dozens, slaughtered entire families. Retirees, college students, executives. None was exempt.Yet he didn't think of himself as a serial killer.After all, all the killings was because someone had told him to.And no, he was not an assassin. At least assassins got paid.He didn't like it. Not one bit.But what was he supposed to do?After all, the pers...

A series of bizarre murders rocks the beautiful Carpathian town of Braşov. At first there’s nothing obvious that links what look like random killings.With the police still smarting from the scandal of having failed to act in a previous case of a serial kidnapper and killer, they bring in forensic pathologist Gigi Alexa to figure out if several murderers are at work – or if they have another serial killer on their hands.Ambitious, tough, and not one to suffe...