"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--

"Tragedy can strike in the blink of an eye, as Cindy Preston is all too aware. As she struggles to cope with the loss of her job, death and destruction are unfolding around her. At her new temp assignment she quickly discovers that something sinister happened to the woman she's replaced. Meanwhile, Rabbi Jeremiah Silverman and Detective Mark Walters are left picking up the pieces when one of their own is viciously attacked. Now it's a race against...

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...

Noviembre de 1984, Estación Central de Stuttgart. Anne Kahl, secretaria de una famosa clínica psiquiátrica, encabeza una caravana de mujeres que están a punto de abordar distintos trenes que las llevarán a todos los rincones de Alemania. Anne ha asumido la misión de embarcarlas y, en buena cuenta, de liberarlas. Se trata de una operación clandestina, pues ellas son pacientes muy delicadas del doctor Curtius Tauler, que las ha dado de alta tras...

Cindy has waited a long time for Jeremiah to share the secrets of his past with her and she's not going to let the murder of a young woman at a political rally at the church keep her from finding out exactly what the rabbi has been hiding. Just when she's beginning to get answers, though, an emergency phone call sends her off to Las Vegas to the bedside of her injured brother and leaves Jeremiah to solve the mystery himself. Before she knows what's...

"On the eve of the heated presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a scenic resort town where those without the scent of whiskey on their breath have the plight of temperance on their tongues. Summoned for her services as a private secretary, Hattie is looking forward to exploring the hills, indulging her penchant for botany-and getting to know the town's handsome doctor. But it's hard to get her job done...

Cindy was hoping that the only drama this Halloween season would be trying to figure out costumes for Jeremiah and her to wear to a costume party. As it turns out, though, there are a lot more tricks in store than treats.