What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea from the work of Franz Kafka and use it to spark something new?

Sixteen years ago, Grace and her boyfriend Adam disappeared. Leyna, her sister, has never given up hope that Grace is alive. When a wildfire sparks near Leyna’s neighborhood, tempers flare. Someone knows what really happened to Grace, and those secrets will turn deadly.

Iggy just got out of prison, to find that his mother has died and his father’s business is going under due to some shady dealings. Can Iggy save his family without losing himself forever?

With four sons and a flower farm, widow Delia Swarey has little time for courtship, though that doesn’t stop her boys from rejecting every potential suitor. Elias Lehman is in the same boat with his daughter. Delia and Elias hope that pretending to court each other will teach their children about opening their hearts. But they could soon learn their own lessons about love.

Evie was found as a child, next to the dead body of the man who had kidnapped her. Starved and abused, she could say nothing about what had happened to her or her life before her captivity. Cyrus Haven is a psychologist helping investigate the murder of a teenage figure skater. When a friend asks him to interview Evie, Cyrus decides to foster her. Can joining forces help them both?

Denise and Brian were hardworking devout Southern Baptists, who, along with their respective spouses, formed a friendship that seemed unbreakable – until December 2000, when Denise’s husband disappeared while duck hunting. The death was ruled an accident. Then, in 2018, Brian confessed to murdering Denise’s husband. 

Caleb Carr, author of “The Alienist”, tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker – and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can.

While conducting research for his fiction, Amitav Ghosh was startled to realize just how much the lives of his nineteenth-century characters were dictated by one commodity – opium. Ghosh found opium at the origins of some of the world’s biggest corporations, several of America’s most powerful families and institutions, and contemporary globalism itself.

When Haewon Hake left South Korea as a young adult, she dedicated herself to helping people through psychotherapy. But one client’s story would cause the successful counselor to relive the years of abuse she suffered as a child. 

In the early twentieth century, anarchists championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants. Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long “war on anarchy,” a brutal program of spying, censorship, and deportation that set the foundations of the modern surveillance state.