
Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After losing her home, she hits the road. When 15-year-old Allie’s parents are jailed for tax fraud, she’s sent to a group home. But when her life is threatened by another resident, she escapes only to find she has nowhere to go—until fate throws Allie in Bea’s path…

For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead…

Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife—a paper wife. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she’s met with a surprise…