Violet Mathers, abandoned by her mother and abused by her father, decides to travel to California and throw herself off the Golden Gate Bridge, but a bus accident in North Dakota puts her life on a new course when she is rescued by Austin Sykes and Kjel Hedstrom, a musical team who catch her up in their dreams of stardom during the Great Depression.

Judith and Rennie's dream of R&R on a cruise ship is dry-docked when murder mars the pre-launch party. But the stabbing death of cruise line owner Magglio Cruz is only the first in a trio of homicides as the cousins prowl San Francisco's streets in search of a killer. By the time they sort through all the suspects, they'll be lucky to be alive themselves!

"At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary...