Kirjahaku

Twenty-two year old Anna Wincott has an older brother with autism, part of the one in forty-five people in America diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. Though he shares similar traits with other autistics, Lewis is in no way usual, and for most of Anna's life, everything has been about her brother. She works every job she can find just to pay the bills. Then she's hired for a well-paying position by Bellway Aircraft inspection foreman Sam Post. Sam is a genuinely good man about to go through the most trying period of his life, some of it due to his decision to show kindness to his new employee, and his recognition of her need for help. Anna develops feelings for Sam, who assures her all she's feeling is gratitude. He's older than she is, and married, so any relationship between them is impossible. Anna knows he's right once her brother gets arrested...again. Labeled 'high-functioning', the impulsive Lewis has long been accustomed to getting everything he wants thanks to a doting mother and hard-working sister. But Lewis has a secret problem no one talks about, and once he meets two men who can help him obtain what he truly desires, he develops new focus and gains a previously unseen intensity. Of course, getting what he wants is still going to depend largely upon Anna...

Sunday Considine is set to see his sister Wednesday marry his best friend Bannon McKay when a tornado strikes and causes damage not just to people, but to relationships as the next day the groom doesn't remember his bride, his friend or the secret life he lived in their small suburban town. Jesse Coffey, tennis pro at the country club, wastes no time in making a play for the abandoned Wendy. Only the shocking murder of two children is a bigger scandal...until some digging on a rainy day uncovers the secret no one expects.

Angelo Merona is tired of waiting for Marti Zaroni to realize she loves him. Marti, devoted to science, is infuriated by the manly Angelo and wishes he would just get over it. Compounding things is a demon that has plagued their two families for centuries, and while Angelo need not worry because of his rare green eyes, everyone around him is fair game, including the wealthy Uncle Zito, his shy ward Goran and the brave 14 year old Lee who helps Marti escape some cruel kidnappers that happen to be his father and brother.

A downed plane full of passengers is halved by two realms, one that looks a lot like the hot, dry desert of the southwest, and one that doesn't, where the flora is blue trees with curly leaves and the fauna is something no one on board has ever seen, but which has obviously seen humans before and is determined to begin taking their pick of the survivors.

A death row inmate with only days left to live is recruited by the FBI to obtain information from a wealthy, arrogant Egyptian believed to be behind the murders of several hundred women across the border.

At a haunted house on Halloween, British transfer student Jordan Peale meets a pretty teen in foster-care named Caley. After a gruesome car accident, she disappears. Five years later, he meets her again in a diner outside Brownsville, Texas, and now her pretty face is scarred with long scratch marks and she calls herself Hannah. Jordan is on assignment to film a web series and is slated to cover the annual event in Catemaco, Mexico at the foot of The Mountain of the White Monkey. He tells Hannah he remembers her but she denies her identity and warns him against going to Catemaco. He wants to know why, but she won't tell him. Later, after he and his ex-surfer cameraman Martin battle thieves, witches, spiders, snakes, and a large hair-covered man whose calling card is serpentine patterns of mud, Jordan begins to suspect this girl is not just part of the story, but that she is the story. And now he's part of it too, because he's crazy in love with her, but one doesn't just fall for the daughter of the devil and expect to start picking out china patterns...or go on living.

More than a hundred years ago a series of murders committed by a family who called themselves the Benders took place in Kansas. The father, mother, son and daughter took in weary travelers and offered a warm bed to sleep in for the night, but usually during dinner brought more than a hot meal to the unsuspecting guests and later robbed them of their goods and hurriedly buried the bodies. The Benders were never punished for their crimes, and in modern day Kansas when an ex-police detective turned missing persons investigator is sent to determine the identity of a certain inn keeper outside sleepy Coffeyville he finds himself wondering if history is about to repeat itself in a very personal way, more meaningful to him than he could ever have imagined.

Centuries ago, an ancient alchemist's taste for young girls saw thirteen-year-old Lura Cartaun fleeing for her life. When he catches her, the old monster gives her a choice. Generations later her descendants are still trying to undo the curse placed upon them, a bind that finds child after child dying because of its name. The end to the bind may be in sight, however, with the appearance of another descendant, that of the evil alchemist, who comes to town and decides to do some grave digging. What he unearths causes the entire population of the town to be placed under quarantine, but it also brings two people together whose union has been centuries in the making.

A woman and her two young daughters on a ship filled with starving, dying Irish emigrants encounters a bigger challenge than an unknown future in America when she is faced with saving the life of two people, the captain's wife, and a recalcitrant English lord fleeing a murder charge.

A search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to remember feelings they suppressed years ago. But Sutton's father, the wealthy Edward De Berg, and her French husband, Paul Dubois, have nefarious plans for any treasures found on the island, and the ghosts that haunt the atoll will wreak havoc and take lives before its deeper truth is revealed, more dangerous than any of them ever imagined.