Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided by the jury. In the meantime, she does not realize that her own life is now at risk.

Kathy and Kelly Frawley are twin three-year-olds kidnapped and held ransom for eight million dollars. Even when their parents comply with the kidnapper's demands, only Kelly is returned--along with a note that Kathy has died. But when Kelly receives telepathic messages from her sister, their mother refuses to give up hope.

A student obsessed with her English professor is accused of his murder, but cannot remember how her fingerprints could possibly have been found at the scene of the crime.

Nancy Harmon had fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, the hostile front-page newspaper stories and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her red hair sable brown, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now she was married again, had two more beautiful children, and the terrible pain had begun to heal, until the morning when she looked in the back yard for...

Following an acrimonious divorce and the experience of being pursued by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to work in a major law firm in Manhattan. She buys her ancestral home, a restored Victorian house in the resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family had sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, a young girl, disappeared. Now, more than a century later, as the house's backyard...