Ten-year-old Danny Madsen has been missing for four days when his godfather, Jesse Carlton, refuses to give up the search. On a frigid night in Hingham, Massachusetts, Jesse is driving a deserted road beside miles of conservation land when Danny suddenly bursts from the woods. Jesse hits the brakes. The car spins on black ice. And in one horrifying instant, every life connected to the boy is changed forever.When Jesse awakens after the crash, the crucial moments are missing from hi...

Jonathan Beckett and Philip Stone have built the life they once believed impossible: a loving partnership, a beautiful home in Westport, Connecticut, and careers that give them everything except the child they desperately want.Then Angela reappears.Fifteen years after disappearing from Philip's life, his former college friend is almost unrecognizable. Once isolated and deeply insecure, Angela is now beautiful, confident, and eager to reconnect. When she offers to carry a ch...

Ellen Brooks has spent most of her life watching other people receive everything she believes she was denied.At thirty-nine, she lives with her mother, rarely leaves the house, drinks far too much, and carries decades of anger toward the sister who was always prettier, more popular, and easier to love. Carrie has the life Ellen never had: a successful career, a handsome husband, a talented teenage son, and an elegant home in Darien, Connecticut.When Ellen reluctantly agrees...

Scott Atwood has written fifteen bestsellers, won the industry's most prestigious awards, and built a fortune by giving readers unforgettable endings. Now his imagination is gone.After eight months of crippling writer's block, Scott decides his career-and his life-are over. He heads to a suburban train platform with his laptop and a final choice: produce the opening of another masterpiece or step in front of the next train.Then inspiration strikes.Scott conceives a ...

What if you could hear what people truly think about you-before you die?At forty-three, successful financial advisor Ethan Jackson has spent his life wondering what the people closest to him leave unsaid. He has watched death loosen tongues at hospital beds and funerals, releasing confessions, apologies, love, and resentment only after it is too late for any of it to matter.Ethan refuses to wait for his own funeral to learn the truth.Haunted by old family wounds and...

Dr. Justin Wright has built his career helping troubled minds find their way back to stability. But when Frank Devlin enters his Manhattan office, Justin realizes he may be facing the most complicated-and dangerous-case of his career.Frank is losing time. He wakes in unfamiliar places, discovers conversations he cannot remember, and receives messages addressed to names that are not his own. As Justin digs deeper, he uncovers the truth: Frank is living with multiple identities, each...

One month after Daniel's abduction, the Wright family is running out of hope.Michael is reliving the nightmare that defined his childhood, tormented by the knowledge that his own son has vanished just as he once did. His anger fixes on Benji, the former patient who stalked him, terrorized him, and then disappeared when the family needed answers most. But photographs suggest Michael may have been following Benji-not the other way around-and gaps in Michael's memory leave everyone qu...

Two months after losing his wife, Dr. Justin Wright is barely holding his shattered family together. Then a stranger leaves a voicemail claiming to be related to Mandy-and the impossible truth behind her call threatens to reopen every wound Justin has tried to survive.Monica says she is Mandy's identical twin, separated from her at birth and hidden from the family for more than sixty years. Her face, her voice, and even her smallest gestures bring Justin's wife vividly back to life...

Fifteen years after surviving abduction, Michael Wright has built the life he once feared he would never have. He is a psychologist, a husband, and the devoted father of a two-year-old son. But every night, the past returns in dreams where Daniel disappears-and Michael awakens more convinced that history is waiting to repeat itself.His marriage to Gayle is already straining beneath his fear when a volatile new patient enters his practice. Benji Kenny lives for danger: racing cars, ...

Seven years after his abduction, Michael Wright is finally home.For his parents, psychiatrist Dr. Justin Wright and attorney Mandy Wright, the reunion should be the miracle they prayed for. But the ten-year-old boy they lost is now a seventeen-year-old stranger-withdrawn, emotionally detached, and carrying memories he refuses to share. Even more disturbing, Michael already knows his brother Dylan is dead. The man who told him was Nathan, the murderous identity inside Justin's forme...

Dr. Justin Wright has spent his career confronting the darkness inside other people. Now danger has entered his family, and every answer threatens to reveal something he may not survive.His son Michael is finally home after seven years in captivity, but the boy Justin remembers has returned guarded, secretive, and seemingly untouched by compassion. When Frank Devlin - the patient who murdered Justin's other son - claims Michael may be responsible for another death, Justin is forced...

WHAT DOES A BEST-SELLING THRILLER AUTHOR DO WHEN HE RUNS OUT OF IDEAS?JUST ABOUT ANYTHING . . .Paralyzed by writer's block, Scott Atwood (the award-winning, psychological thriller author) realizes his career is over. He decides to end his life in a way that will thrill fans with his typical mind-blowing finale.But just as Scott resolves to jump in front of a train, he comes up with a plot for his next bestseller—a thriller-suspense ...