Deborah P. ONeal

Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Solving the cold case is an obsession for Lisa’s daughter, Anita. So is clearing the name of her father, a prime suspect who became a pariah. After twenty-five years, all Anita wants is the truth—no matter where it leads.

En alvorligt såret kvinde bringes til skadestuen. Kvinden er blevet ramt af en bil, men eftersom hun er nøgen og har været udsat for brutal vold, står det hurtigt klart, at hun har været offer for en person med et yderst forskruet sind. Tre år tidligere flyttede restmediciner Sara Linton til Atlanta i håb om at lade sine tragiske fortid bag sig. Nu arbejder hun som læge og forsøger samtidig at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor. Men da den brutalt sårede kvinde bringes ind på skadestuen, bliver Sara ufrivilligt trukket tilbage til den verden af vold og mord, som hun havde forladt.

On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life, free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire.

As David Sloane continues to piece his life back together in the wake of his wife's vicious murder, he also struggles to handle his difficult teenage son, Jake. Reeling from the loss of his mother, Jake's bad behavior escalates and his relationship with Sloane is pushed to the brink. When Sloane's old friend, Detective Tom Molia, recruits Sloane and Jake to join him and his son on a camping trip, Sloane sees the trip as an opportunity to repair their broken father/son bond.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it.