A searing debut novel from one of the most imaginative minds in fiction Kelly Luce's Pull Me Under tells the story of Rio Silvestri, who, when she was twelve years old, fatally stabbed a school bully. Rio, born Chizuru Akitani, is the Japanese American daughter of the revered violinist Hiro Akitani--a Living National Treasure in Japan and a man Rio hasn't spoken to since she left her home country for the United States (and a new identity) after her...

My name is Lauralei McCalaster. Or is it? I've lived my entire life in Alexia only to find out just before my eighteenth birthday that it's all been a lie. Now I'm on a quest for the truth and learning how to live with everything that I've learned and the consequences of those truths. Will anybody ever tell me the full truth? Can I handle the weight of the truth? Will I ever be able to live in peace, or will the truth of who and what I am threaten...

Just your average woman. That's me. Quiet and introverted. And a doormat more times than I care to remember.And then Judd Walker comes riding into my life. My knight in shining armor, helping my find a strength I didn't know I had.That is, until a blast from his past threatens the security I've found with this man. He makes his feelings for me clear, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm on the verge of losing him. Losing everything.Major life changes...

I know he's a shifter before I see him. As I step inside, desire pulls me under like a wave. Vampires are delicious, but nothing is as scorching hot as a powerful werewolf. I'm not sure what I want more - to have him bend me over the table, or to feed on his otherworldly energy. I crave both. Temptation! This is how my problems begin. I can't trust anyone, particularly supernatural creatures. With my power, I don't even trust myself. I'm too damned...

KANDY When I was a little girl, Mr. Cane was my whole world. He was perfect and handsome and the best thing to have ever happened to my family. As I grew up, those feelings changed. I wanted him in every possible way, and I got what I’d been craving. Then I learned things about him - dangerous things. I was too stubborn to heed his warnings - too naive to see the complicated mess unfolding right in front of me. My life was torn to shreds because...

I open my eyes in the darkness, laying on my side, half my vision is of the earth and shadows; the other is of the sky, treetops, and stars. I should write Clifford's story. The thought emerges fully formed . . . The thought dissipates. I close my eyes and the earth and the sky disappear. The warmth of my sleeping bag wraps around me and sleep pulls me under into that half-world where reality and fantasy mingle in a place where coherent thoughts disintegrate....

""Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...

I'm Trace Weston, recently reformed womanizer. In the blink of an eye, I went from busy bachelor to full-time single dad. My life was already complicated before my sister-in-law asked me to show off my bedroom skills to her bestie, who's wanting to experience real pleasure now that her one-and-only long term relationship is over. Gorgeous Masey Garrett isn't my "usual." She's shy, sassy, driven, and incredibly kind. Suddenly I'm falling fast...but...

"The thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us. Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to...

When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became...