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Angela Baranyi, an unassuming divorced mother from Cleveland with two young children, gets the chance of a lifetime when she gets a job in New York City, working for the enigmatic Pastor Soren Kristiansen, the world's most popular Internet evangelist. Six months later, she disappears mysteriously and is presumed dead. Almost two years later, in the aftermath of four deaths in Palm Desert, California, a mysterious portrait of Angela, living on the streets of East Los Angeles, surfaces at the scene of a two killings. How did the portrait get there? Why is she living on the streets? Told through Angela's own eyes, her compelling story links the tragic deaths in Walls, the stunning opening of author Alex Jones' Identity Trilogy, to the global race against time to find an abducted child in Faces, Part Two of the trilogy.

Stunned by the shocking turn of events at the end Alex Jones' second novel, Faces, Dan Whitney joins forces with his old friend Anika Kristiansen, their new ally Angela Baranyi (the mysterious woman of many identities from Angela's Eyes), and the close friends they have made since Dan's arrival in California in Walls, to solve the puzzle of Francesca Capellini's disappearance.At the same time, Francesca comes face to face with her captor: Dan, Angela, and Anika's nemesis from Faces. Startled by the gradual realization that her abductor is both a psychologically unstable sexual predator, but is also a face from her distant abusive past, Francesca searches desperately for a way to escape from the isolated desert camp where she is being held hostage, and also searches for a way to escape from the ghosts of her own past. In the process, she manages to form a tenuous bond with her captor that enables her to piece together the events from the rest of the Trilogy (Walls, Faces, and Angela's Eyes).While Francesca gradually makes sense of the complex web of events from her past, Dan rallies their mutual friends: Anika, Angela, and their comrades from Chateau Eden. Together, they struggle against overwhelming odds and the unlimited resources of their powerful enemy in their race against time to rescue Francesca and reunite her with Dan.Spirits is the culmination of Dan and Francesca's inner struggles to define their identities. It links together events from Walls, Faces, and Angela's Eyes that spans thirty years and three continents, and ultimately exposes a deeply-entrenched conspiracy of sexual harassment and abuse. Spirits is both a romance and a psychological thriller that brings the suspense-filled roller coaster ride of The Identity Trilogy to a satisfying end. But most of all, Spirits is a tale of affirmation - a story where the spirit of love, optimism, and mutual cooperation eventually triumphs over hatred, negativity, and the need to dominate others.

Walls is the breakout new psychological suspense novel from author Alex Jones, and is the first of three psychological thrillers making up The Identity Trilogy. Jones' insight into the inner conflicts and erotic fantasies of his four main characters opens our eyes to the tragic world of trauma and abuse, its frightening effects on the human mind, and the resiliency and spirit of those who manage to survive. Psychologist Dan Whitney and his wife Michelle, an emergency room nurse, live an otherwise unspectacular life in suburban Detroit. To help inject some new life back into their marriage, they decide upon a somewhat unconventional resort hotel in Palm Springs as the setting for their romantic getaway. But their plan starts to unravel slowly, almost as soon as they arrive, when they are presented with a series of unexpected roadblocks. All seems lost when mechanical problems suddenly cause their hotel room to be unavailable. Luckily, their vacation is saved at the last minute by Philippe Morel, the hotel's wealthy and personable owner, who invites them to spend the rest of their vacation at the opulent estate he shares with his enigmatic wife, Francesca. Dan's initial relief is short-lived and he becomes increasingly suspicious of Philippe's motives. Too late, he realizes that Philippe has been playing him against Michelle in a sinister plan to meet his own sadistic needs: a plan that creates not only an immense rift in Dan's marriage, but puts their lives in peril. Will Dan be able to find a way to rescue his marriage to Michelle? Will they be able to find a way to work together to survive Philippe's manipulation, and break free from his seductive web of blackmail and deceit? More importantly, will they be able to find a way to escape with their lives?Walls is the story of Dan Whitney's inner struggle between his personal and professional values, his loyalty to his wife, and his most basic human drives. It is an erotic story of Dominance, Submission, and survival, combining a complex plot and characters like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the Millennium Trilogy, but with the sexual energy of Fifty Shades of Grey.

THE NIGHT CLASS is a coming of age drama, the story of Samantha (Sam) Bower, a young university teaching assistant, who is studying hard to make a career for herself as a psychologist, while also struggling to overcome the trauma of a childhood of abuse and abandonment, and navigating a journey of self-discovery. The setting is primarily a generic city in Southwestern Ontario. The main story is set within the current social context of recent Residential School revelations and Canada's need for addressing Truth and Reconciliation with its Indigenous Peoples. The secondary story is a love/hate relationship between two of the story's main characters: Hunter, a young Indigenous student, and Terri, a middle-age Caucasian woman who has returned to university as an adult student. This secondary story is a political commentary on the current state of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.Sam is tasked with trying to keep a racially mixed team of eight undergraduate students (including Hunter and Terri) from self-destructing as they attempt to satisfactorily complete a controversial, assigned group project on Truth and Reconciliation. While the stakes for her students are whether or not they pass or fail the course, the stakes for Sam are much greater. She is a victim of a traumatic childhood of abuse and neglect that continues to plague her as an adult. She has been struggling with her grades in grad school, has yet to decide on a thesis project, and her career goal of teaching at a university may be in jeopardy if she fails to successfully mentor her students. To further complicate matters, Sam's journey of self-discovery is turned upside-down when she discovers that her real father is Indigenous, and was a residential school survivor. The team members' individual personality quirks soon cause tempers to flare and racial tension and emotions to boil over, creating a perfect storm of dysfunction that threatens to derail both the team and Sam. In order to stay in grad school and achieve her ambition of becoming a university professor and teacher, Sam must not only keep her student team from self-destructing, but she must also overcome her own traumatic past and inner demons.