Linda

In this gripping novel, an addiction counselor and a security guard struggle to free a little girl and her father, two lost spirits trapped inside an abandoned mental asylum.

Manhattan domestic violence counselor Zoe Anderson is going on the most important vacation of her life. Her Cinderella dreams shattered three years ago, leaving her a scarred widow, inside and out. In an attempt to bury her demons, Zoe sets out for picturesque Lake George to claim the treasured family cottage she recently inherited - a place where she found happiness before. Her therapist's advice: reboot, restore to an earlier time. What she finds is a rundown shack.

The entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero-a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster - a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands.

A psychic interior designer reluctantly agrees to renovate a sexy investor's abandoned hotel on Loch Sheldrake, a lake rumored to have once been the mob's body dumping ground. Interior designer Kate Bardach loves her single girl's lifestyle, living in Manhattan and spending weekends at her lake house. She's passionate about her career, too - reinventing old buildings. But there are some projects she can't take on because of the spirits trapped inside. Kate is psychic - she sees dead people.

Professor Jack Wood's silver-streaked hair definitely ages him, and he can thank Killer Dawn for that. He won't be falling into the love trap again anytime real soon. But this new librarian has him curious, with her head-to-toe black Goth garb and piercings and a defiant attitude to match. Definitely not his type of girl, but still....