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1) Fractured
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When a young girl is brutally raped and murdered in a wealthy Atlanta neighborhood, and the girl's mother kills the attacker with her bare hands, agent Will Trent is assigned to unravel the case
3) Speak
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A traumatic event near the end of the summers has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...
5) Salem Falls
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Jack St. Bride was a popular teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school when he was falsely accused of statutory rape. Released after eight months behind bars, he arrives in Salem Falls hoping to start fresh. He lands a job washing dishes at the local diner and even falls in love with the owner, Addie. But then a spoiled local girl accuses Jack of assault, forcing his past into the open and turning the town against him.
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High school teacher Emily Dobbs has been best friends with perfect homemaker Marcie Carter since the Carters moved into their suburban Miami neighborhood ten years earlier. Even their kids are close. Together they have weathered just about every storm, including Emily's painful split with her absentee husband Derek. But their relationship is put to the ultimate test when Marcie's son Evan is charged with date rape. At first rallying to his side in...
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Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. He in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her -- one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day. When undercover DEA agent Carter enters the picture, Sloan's surprised to feel an immediate attraction between them, despite knowing that if Asa finds...
8) Obsessed
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Seattle surgeon Ivy Pennington treats a victim of serial rapist "Hart" who carves a heart on all of his victims. She becomes involved with her neighbor Vincent D'Ambruzzi who is the cop in charge of investigating these brutal rapes. The rapist becomes obsessed with Ivy...
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For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it?s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife...