A Home Like Ours

“They killed me, but I survived.” Three years after Rory Riordan foiled her own murder, she still trusts no one. Not Dr. Z, the eccentric college professor who has taken her under his wing, not Benji, the endearing, attractive classmate who insists on following her around, and certainly not Cy, the beautifully dark and mysterious boy who sits on the first row in Dr. Z’s Astrobiology class and asks far too many questions. When Rory witnesses Cy being abducted by soldiers in the middle of the night, she finds herself submersed in a world that holds even more secrets than she could...

A fire breaks out in an old school on Valo Island in the middle of the night. When Patrik Hedström goes to investigate, he meets Ebba Stark, who, together with her husband, recently returned to the island to try and get over the death of their only child. Patrik's wife, the crime writer Erika Falck, believes the attack on the school is directly linked to Ebba's tragic past. In 1974, her entire family disappeared while vacationing in Halo. One-year-old Ebba was adopted soon after and every year on her birthday, she receives a card simply signed with the letter G. Erica, as it turns out, has...

El agente Jack Shields del Servicio Secreto tiene un secreto: no es realmente Jack Shields. John Ryan, un portero huérfano, por fin tiene una noche de suerte en el hipódromo. Le comprará algo de tiempo con las distintas mafias a las que les debe dinero. Antes de que la noche termine, su suerte cambiará por completo cuando reciba una oferta que no puede rechazar: ser Jack Shields. Necesitará ayuda para lograrlo, en especial porque los directores ejecutivos de bancos, a los que se supone que debe proteger, se convirtieron en objetivos para su ejecución. Si no puede hacerlo, la única...

Dentro de una moderna casa en el noreste de Manhattan, saltan chispas cuando la arrendataria Bess Cooper, tan exquisita como los postres que prepara en su programa de repostería en la TV, choca con su guapo nuevo vecino Whit Bass, un reconocido periodista de radio íntimamente relacionado con una modelo bien sofisticada, de esas que complementan cada uno de sus trajes y vestidores. Al igual que su famoso y dulce pastel de manzana, Bess tiene un guapo novio policía –y su pijamada del viernes– quien alega que sus asuntos secretos de la policía le impiden arrastrarse bajo sus sabanas con...