El pequeño Bryan Shepard quería una madre y estaba dispuesto a conseguirla como fuera. De hecho, ya había decidido que su nueva vecina, Alexis Gordon, era perfecta para el papel. Solo le quedaba convencer a su padre de que también sería la esposa perfecta... Judd Shepard comprendía la atracción que su hijo sentía por Alexis, pero, como estaba convencido de que ella solo interpretaba el papel de madre para conseguir un ascenso en su carrera,...

A woman seeks an explanation for her mother's mysterious disappearance 34 years earlier.

"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic...

It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced.  Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. More than two decades ago, a four-year-old girl disappeared, and a recent newspaper story about her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial

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A family Christmas! Charli McKenna runs a business that specializes in organizing all those annoying domestic details of life, from dinner parties to laundry. Christmas is her specialty! Max Taylor wants a full-time wife. A wife will also get him a seat on the board. That last thing he wants is messy emotional ties. He'd even prefer a make-believe wife-;and Charli is the ideal candidate. Charli can't exactly say why she has agreed to pretend to...