Standing at the crossroads of middle age, knee-deep in divorce and decline, Jeff Dittimore finds himself looking back in time.Back past opportunities squandered and dreams unfulfilled; back to the days when he and his buddies lived with one foot in this world and the other in a world of pure imagination—the Land of Nod. A dangerous place, an exciting place…their place.Not that he would want to go back to those times, of course. Memory is untrustworthy. Childhood has teeth. ...

Deep in a converted Cold War-era bunker, a visionary scientist has devised a way to cure all the ills of humanity in a single stroke. No more war, pestilence, starvation, pollution.The price will be high, but then, progress is never free.Pendergast's solution is entrusted to the extraordinary children he calls Loners—the ultimate fruit of his genius. They're almost ready for release.But not everyone agrees with his vision of a perfect future; Pendergast is forced to ...

Isabelle didn't mean to kill her daughter.She's positive of that. Even though she's now spent eight years alone, isolated by memories of Annette, the daughter she feared rather than loved, and tormented by her ex-husband, Richard, who will never forgive her for what happened. Even though she can't turn on a TV or pick up a phone without being reminded of Annette, and very clock seems to show the hour and minute of Annette's death.Is Isabelle's daughter coming back for reven...

When Stacey Westerman's husband disappears, the rumors begin: he was too handsome for her, too successful, too perfect. He ran off with another woman.But Stacey doesn't believe it; she hires a detective to find out what really happened. Together they follow a trail that leads from passion to passion, death to death, shock to shock.Who is this Lorelei, this woman no man can resist or deny? What is the source of her power? What are its limits?And will ordinary love be...