Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife to make a home for him on his estate in rural Wisconsin in the early twentieth century and although he knows immediately that Catherine Land is not the woman she presented herself to be, he decides to marry her anyway in what becomes a risky arrangement for them both.

Emma Grant's love of romance has helped her turn the wedding planning company she started with her three best friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack, a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than friendship.

Gabriel is drawn into a world of danger when an art restorer is brutally murdered and the newly discovered Rembrandt which he is working on is taken, and as Gabriel investigates he discovers there are terrible secrets connected to the painting.

Wedding planner Jaclyn Wilde has not enjoyed helping Carrie Edwards with her wedding due to her crazy demands; but when Carrie is murdered just before the wedding, and everyone, including Jaclyn, becomes a suspect, leaving Detective Eric Wilder to sort through the evidence and find the real killer, before his feelings for Jaclyn can cloud his judgment.

State police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, but detective D.D. Warren soon realizes it is far from an open-and-shut case when it is discovered that Tessa's six-year-old daughter is missing and the clues lead to a shocking conspiracy that could destroy them all.

When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past he decides to use it to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Valerie Wyatt, a successful television show host who is depressed about her upcoming sixtieth birthday, April, Valerie's daughter who has put all her attention into her one-of-a-kind restaurant and feels like she has nothing to show for being thirty, and Jack Adams, a fifty-year-old former NFL player with a career as a sports analyst who definitely feels his age, find their lives turned upside down by an act of violence, a blessing, and love affairs....

Overwhelmed by a mob-related murder, his relationship with his ex-wife, and his battle with alcohol, Jesse Stone agrees to help private investigator Sunny Randall when she comes into town for a case, but instead of taking Jesse's mind off his problems, his involvement only causes more headaches and greater dangers.

The wedding of a daughter's best friend and--a year later--the wedding of a daughter brings Griffin back to Cape Cod, his childhood home, where he confronts old hurts, the loss of his father, and more of his own troubles.

"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -- San Francisco Chronicle " Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action ... .A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting ... .Great entertainment ... .The pages and minutes fly by." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" -- Newsday ) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible...