Emma Lawrence has reason to fear the base cruelty of the man she must call uncle.  She and her sister Rachel had been taken into the Gilmore household on the death of their parents and have known nothing but unkindness at the hands of Fenton and his wife.  And now Rachel is dead, brutally raped and strangled, and Emma must dry her tears and flee if she is to escape the same fate.  Emma falls in with two other orphans, and Timothy and Lily become as dear to her as her own departed sister.  But Fenton Gilmore does not give up so easily.  His evil ambition is to own a brothel and Emma is vital to his perverted plan ...

Lil Chance fell in love with Cooper Sullivan pretty much the first time she saw him, an awkward teenager staying with his grandparents on their cattle ranch in Montana while his parents went through a messy divorce.  They spent every summer together, trekking in the Black Hills, tracking cougar and falling in love.  Then Cooper broke her heart and moved back to New York City.  Ten years later and Cooper has given up his job in the police force to run the ranch after his grandfather is injured in a fall.  Lil has stayed true to her love of cougars and of the Black Hills and opened an animal sanctuary.  She has been targeted by animal rights campaigners in the past but this time someone seems intent on murder.  As hikers are killed, animals mutilated and a family member goes missing, Lil knows that she has no choice but to turn to Cooper for help in her fight for survival...

Top photographer Hope Dunne has known joy and heartbreak, and finds serenity through the lens of her camera.  Content in her Soho loft, she isn't looking for a man or excitement.  But these things find her when she flies to London to photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers.  Finn O'Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm.  Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hope's quiet, steady grace - and he's taken instantly by her.  He courts her as no one ever has before, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate.  Hope finds it all, and him, irresistible.  But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories: gaps in his history, a few innocent lies, and bouts of jealousy unnerve her.  Suddenly Hope is both in love and deeply in doubt, and ultimately frightened of the man she loves.  Is it possible that this adoring man is hiding something even worse?  The spell cast by a brilliant sociopath has her trapped in his web, too confused and dazzled to escape, as he continues to tighten his grip on her…

In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government- sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly ... disappears.  At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers - including Zavala - left to die.  Only Kurt Austin's heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA® team on the case.  He has no idea what he's just gotten them all into.  A hideous series of medical experiments … an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization … a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it's not just their own skins they're trying to save - it's the lives of millions.

Brodie Logan's idyllic life with her once-loving husband, Colin, seems to have come to an end.  So when she lets out the big house in Liverpool with its enchanting garden where she grew up, she decides to leave Colin and share the house with the other women who have come to live there.  First, there is twenty-five year old Diana, so innocent and childlike, yet terribly practical having raised her three younger brothers to be fine young men.  But Diana suddenly finds there is no place for her in the only home she has ever known.  Then there is Vanessa, once a successful career woman, now miserable and overweight, who still can't get over the shock of an unexpected rejection.  And finally, Rachel, barely fifteen, with her baby daughter, Poppy, who some people seem determined to take away from her.  As they while away the brilliant summer under the trees in the lovely garden of the big house, friendships form that will last a lifetime.  But it isn't all a bed of roses; bad things happen too - after all, nothing lasts forever.

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways - not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill.  And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.  The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics - body language-expert.  She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report.  As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not.  Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures...

Months after foiling an attack on a commercial jetliner, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under an assumed name in a remote corner of Africa, while his newly revealed spy wife, Emma, desperate to escape the wrath of Division, the secret American intelligence agency she betrayed, has vanished into the netherworld of international espionage.  Both look forward to sharing a stolen weekend in London - until an ambush on a convoy of limousines turns their romantic rendezvous into a terrorist bloodbath.  In the confusion, Emma disappears.  Jonathan is first hailed as a hero for his valiant actions during the violence, but when surveillance footage makes it unclear whether he was trying to stop the terrorists, or aid them, he quickly turns from savior to suspect.  Once more on the run, Jonathan realizes that the only way to clear his name is to locate Emma, but finding her may prove that all along he's been a pawn in a game far beyond his imagining....

A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret.  At 1 a.m. in a deserted Pennsylvania library, Nat Turnbull's cell phone rings.  His former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe has been arrested by the FBI for stealing top secret archive documents dating back to the Second World War.  Coerced by the FBI into examining the archives for them, Nat finds intriguing references both to Wolfe's curious activities in an Allied intelligence office in Switzerland during the war, and to a mysterious student resistance group in Berlin known as the White Rose.  Following Wolfe's cryptic clues to Europe, Nat uncovers a wartime story of love and betrayal which is reaching out from the past to destroy the present.  Now Nat is in a desperate race to unlock the truth before others on the trail who would kill to stop the secret getting out.

The Devil's Punchbowl refers to a deep pit near the river in Natchez, Mississippi.  Not only have outlaws dumped numerous murder victims there, but there is also a long-standing rumor that it is where Jean Lafitte buried his treasure.  This is a dangerous place, a kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole so deep that the bottom can't be seen.  Against this backdrop, Iles plunges the reader into a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex and all of the ensuing violent consequences…