Inara Erickson's discovery of an elaborately stitched piece of fabric in her deceased aunt's island estate leads her to the century-old story of Mei Lien, and a difficult truth about her about her family.

"Ten years ago, I was seventeen, spending summers with my wealthy family and friends on Hawk Island. One terrible night, I blacked out. The next morning, my best friend, Melanie, was gone--vanished without a trace. Today, I go back. To the island. To my sister's wedding. To a group of privileged people with whom I've never belonged. To my best friend's brother, a man who hates us all. To secrets that someone will kill to keep. A storm is coming. A...

Into each of his bold thrillers, best-selling author Steve Martini packs fast-moving action and convincing characters. Critical Mass is his chillingly realistic tale of nuclear terrorism and a deadly plot to destroy the American way of life. While updating the database at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, nuclear fission expert Gideon van Ry discovers two Russian nuclear devices are missing. As he searches for the unstable components,...

Ornithologist Abigail Stanton has a knack for getting involved in mysteries on Sparrow Island. When the matriarch of a large but fractured family finds her exotic African gray parrot is missing, Abby works on discovering what has happened to it.

High school junior Jordan MacKenzie's life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriend, and a dead-end job. She'd been living with her father, the predictable optometrist, since her mother, the hippie holdover, had become too embarrassing to be around and Jordan finally felt that her life was normal. That is, until she met Gayle D'Angelo, her father's girlfriend.