Just as nature evolves to protect itself against predators, a woman grows into a deadly force.

In these four interconnecting stories, residents of an Illinois lake town in the 1950s move through deep love, loneliness, great joy and the mystical, as they discover the truths that linger just below the surface of everyday lives.

"Burner" tells the story of Shane, the anonymous leader, known only as Burner_911, of an online populist movement, and Chloe, the progressive celebrity daughter of a tech billionaire.

Are you writing your first book? Or are you thinking about writing it? Do you have any idea what you’re getting into? No? Let’s talk about it.

The loss of a life partner strikes over one million new women every year—shattering the present, leaving the future in doubt.

SOULSCAPES is about “other ways of knowing.”

Betrayed by her parents and her criminal husband, naive young widow Carrie Wagner flees her home in Columbus, Ohio, to follow her dream of starting over in California. Even though she's sworn off men, Carrie is determined to carry on and adopt orphans, creating the loving family home she longs for.

Winston Williamsen, head of the law firm his father founded, grapples with the realization that his life has become a fraud. Trapped in a profession he felt coerced into, his cynicism deepens as his actions lead him down a path of moral and ethical decay.

Detective Hiroshi tracks down scammers who are taking advantage of retired people, but discovers what’s behind Tokyo’s clean façade and how street-level scammers are not the only ones scamming.

Thirty-Eight Days of Rain follows Androulla Demetriou, who is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and wondering if she will have to adopt a child one day herself.