At twenty-one, Zilah Dabala has already survived a harrowing past. Now she's convinced she can handle anything on her own, even being held hostage by a terrorist group. But Daniel Siefert is determined to rescue her, and soon their escape ignites an intimacy neither has ever known. Once Daniel learns Zilah's tragic secret, however, he fears she may be lost to him forever

In #1 New York Times–bestselling author Richard North Patterson's suspenseful legal thriller, a Northern lawyer in a Southern town risks his life to bring a killer to justice A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam's best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after his wife is murdered,...

As a boy, Otah Machi was exiled from his family, Machi's ruling house. Decades later, he has witnessed and been part of world-changing events. Yet he has never returned to Machi. Now his father-the Khai, or ruler, of Machi-is dying, and his eldest brother, Biitrah, has been assassinated, Otah realizes that he must return to Machi for reasons not even he understands.Tradition dictates that the sons of a dying Khai fall upon each other until only one...

Four men in a van barrel toward Chicago on a crime spree fueled by greed and other vengeance. One man driving, another preoccupied with the sophisticated plan. In the back, a new recruit worried and wary, another angry and hot-headed. A day behind them, at a lonely motel in an out of the way New Mexico town, an unthinkable murder brings FBI Special Agent Kim Oto to a dead stop. Soon, Otto realizes the muder is tied to a massive crime wave. Otto and...

When a snowstorm traps a pair of strangers in an abandoned cabin deep in the Alaskan bush, they have two choices: work together or die. Search and rescue crews identify the missing persons as Richard Maynard, an Alaskan family man, and Mel Drummond, a city slicker from New York twenty years his junior. Hypothermia, starvation, and bloodthirsty wildlife aren't the only perils that face this unlikely and unlucky duo-a deadly specter from Richard's past...

Eleri wanted a different kind of case. She should have been careful what she wished for. When an odd human skeleton in Michigan's Manistee-Huron National Forest triggers a NightShade investigation, Eleri and Donovan arrive to find it missing. But two other skeletons are a little too easily uncovered--each displays different anomalies that raise alarming questions. The bones aren't from the area or probably even the continent. A decades-old abandoned...

An anthology of previously unpublished work includes contributions by favorite genre authors and a selection of up-and-coming writers