Can we lose a loved one without losing ourselves?
Twenty-eight-year-old Drew Thomson is haunted by a troubled past. After struggling for years with alcoholism and antisocial behavior, he ends a stable relationship with his girlfriend and finds...
Why is the right thing to do seldom the easy thing?And are we, as people, as compassionate as we’d like to believe?Jim Cooke, a baker, lends a helping hand to a homeless Vietnam veteran passing through the small town of Wakefield. But he soon disco...
Corbyn Thurber, seventeen, meets the love of his life while passing through the small town of Wakefield -- he just doesn’t know it at the time.He returns years later in search of the woman he never forgot only to discover she has a dark secret. And...
Meet Terrence. He's pushing forty. He drinks. He smokes. He eats snack cakes for breakfast. And he's the sole guardian of his orphaned nephew, Spencer. But Spencer isn't just any five-year-old. He's a child prodigy, and living togeth...
We all wear masks, and Afton Morrison is no exception.A small-town librarian with a dark side, Afton, twenty-six, has suppressed violent impulses her entire adult life. Impulses that demand she commit murder.Blending her urges with reason, Afton stal...
Somebody is watching. Somebody is always watching.A teenage girl in Wakefield has been abducted, and tracking her down not only tests Afton's moral limits, but threatens her freedom and her life.Suspected of murder by local police, and under the watc...
Is evil a matter of choice, or are we born that way?After a string of brazen arsons overwhelms Wakefield’s first responders, the town is placed on lockdown, rendering Afton and her companions vulnerable to attack.In a last-ditch effort to protect h...
From Book 1: We all wear masks, and Afton Morrison is no exception.
A small-town librarian with a dark side, Afton, twenty-six, has suppressed violent impulses her entire adult life. Impulses that demand she commit murder.
Blending ...
Some secrets stay buried for a lifetime, but nothing lasts forever.Connected to a number of high-profile deaths, Afton finds herself not only under scrutiny from the chief of police, but damned in the court of public opinion, as well.In the aftermath...