Joy Fielding

Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences for all concerned.

From the acclaimed author of Five Photos of My Wife, this is a wry novel about how hard it is to do good. With her husband away on business much of the time, Sonia finds herself drawn into the darker corners of life in her apartment block.

"When budgets are cut, the local Council decides to close the pool in Barton. But the pool is where Lisa Seal trains, and Lisa is tipped for Olympic gold. The town wastes no time in staging a peaceful protest but some people have other ideas ..."--Back cover.

Those goodbye kisses Donna received from her children when ex-husband Victor picked them up for their day's outing with him were for all time...forever. Only Donna did not know that, and the memory of her children's kisses on the day they disappeared came back to haunt her. For Victor did not return. Instead, this handsome, twisted man, who had destroyed their marriage and almost destroyed Donna's sanity, vanished with her little boy and girl. And Donna was left with a lover whose love was no longer enough...a new life that had suddenly turned agonizingly empty...and a terror-filled quest to find her children that would take her across the country and beyond the law...

The story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her own family in jeopardy.

A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New York City gallery, and her popularity is at an all-time high. Life is good, and Sweeney, as she prefers to be called, is content. But lately, Sweeney's dreams--lush, vivid, and drenched in vibrant hues--seem to echo a growing restlessness that has taken hold of her. Suddenly, impulsively, Sweeney falls into a night of intense passion with millionaire Richard Worth. Now, the true dangers of her all-consuming urges are about to be revealed where Sweeney least expects it: in her paintings. After a creative frenzy she can barely recall, Sweeney discovers she has rendered a disturbing image-a graphic murder scene. Against her better instincts, she returns to the canvas time and again, filling out each chilling detail piece by piece. But when a shattering, real-life murder mirrors her creation, Sweeney falls under suspicion. With every stroke of her brush, she risks incriminating herself with her inexplicable knowledge of a deadly crime. And every desire--including her hunger for Richard--is loaded with uncertainty as Sweeney races to unmask a killer.

Bonnie Wheeler had a picture-perfect life: a rewarding job as a school teacher, a happy marriage to a successful TV director, a sprawling suburban home, and Amanda, her adorable three year-old daughter. She'd heard the sordid details about her husband's ex-wife, Joan -- the drinking, the instability, the craziness. Then Joan called her with a cryptic warning -- you're in danger, you and Amanda! But when Joan is found murdered and Bonnie is the prime suspect, she knows this is no game. Suddenly her secure world is crashing in around her. Desperate to know who intends to harm her daughter, Bonnie is caught in a frantic race to keep Amanda safe -- even as she feels her own grasp on reality slipping....

Lie down with lions / by Ken Follett Tree of gold / by Rosalind Laker The deep end / by Joy Fielding Cry wild / by R.D. Lawrence.

It was every mother's worst nightmare and Gail Watson was living it ever since that sunny spring afternoon when her six-year-old daughter Cindy was found, brutally raped and strangled, in a park only blocks from their home. Her family and friends urge her to forget, to go on with her life. But Gail is living for just one thing: to see her daughter's killer caught and punished. She has given the police sixty days. Now that deadline is up, and Gail is going after Cindy's murderer herself daring him to strike again in a spine-chilling search through a dark and dangerous underworld...where only one of them can come out alive...

A novel of psychological suspense about a woman whose life takes a shocking turn when a young girl contacts her, claiming to be her daughter, kidnapped in Mexico years earlier, from the New York Times bestselling author of Someone is Watching. A lifetime ago, every year Caroline Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated,Caroline is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha’s disappearance. However, this year when the phone rings, Caroline hears the sweet voice of a girl claiming to be her long-lost daughter. Plunged back into the world of heartbreak, suspicion and questions that led the case to run cold so many years ago, Caroline doesn’t know what or who to believe. But when she starts to figure it out, she finds the answers dangerously close to home.

The lives of a French wig maker, a young American widow, and a cuban cigar maker intersect in Tampa, Florida, 1898: a hazy frontier where the Old World meets the New and where miracles of transformation are possible.

What if you left your one true love to marry another?What if, years later, you realized you'd made a terrible mistake?In this emotionally-charged novel of dreams lost and desires found, a pair of reunited lovers must choose between the family obligations that keep them apart and the passion that binds them together.