Cuatro días antes de su boda, Julia recibe una llamada del secretario personal de Anthony Walsh, su padre. Walsh es un brillante hombre de negocios, pero siempre ha sido para Julia un padre ausente, y ahora llevan más de un año sin verse. Como Julia imaginaba, su padre no podrá asistir a la boda. Pero esta vez tiene una excusa incontestable: su padre ha muerto.
Cuando Susan decide separarse de Philip para irse a Honduras junto a los más necesitados, su relación empieza a flaquear. A pesar de las cartas que se escriben y de los profundos sentimientos que los unen, la distancia física va apartando también sus corazones. Un día, el pasado vuelve a encontrarlos, encarnado en una niña de once años. En ese momento, Philip y Susan tendrán que demostrar que aún se tienen el uno al otro, y que el suyo fue y sigue siendo un gran amor.
A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaze was set. . . . The mysterious suspect's identity only raises more questions. Then Lassiter uncovers another crime--another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he unearths, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers leads him on a dangerous international chase toward a truth that will shock him--and the world--to the very bone. . . .
The last person Landon thought he would fall for was Jamie Sullivan, daughter of the town's Baptist minister. A quiet girl, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals and volunteered at the local orphanage. Landon would never have dreamed of asking her out, but a twist of fate threw them together when he found himself without a partner for the school dance. In the months that followed, Landon discovered truths that most people take a lifetime to learn - about the joy of giving, the pain of loss and, most of all, the transforming nature of love. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood . . .
Claire, a young doctor, begins her day with an unsettling incident: her handbag is stolen. More distressing than the loss is the whirlwind of thoughts that ensue—who did it, and why her? A sense of latent threat begins to disrupt her orderly life. On the same day, an unknown patient arrives, and Claire thinks she understands the situation. However, Thomas is merely the honest finder of her bag. Claire and Thomas become lovers, even though he warns her that he is married. As their relationship develops, Claire becomes increasingly consumed by fantasies about the other woman. The story takes a surprising turn as the complexities of love and desire unfold, challenging Claire's perceptions and leading her to confront deeper truths about herself and her choices.
"There was, after all, the mystery of Lulu. It was not a question of what she had done, or even what happened to her, but of who she was. She was so little known." And yet the girl named Lulu Peloquin, who works behind a candy counter at F. W. Woolworth. stands out in her very desire to avoid the attention of others. First she is noticed by Agnes Rohan, the druggist's daughter, who motives are not pure. Then it is the dashing man-about-town Mr. Rafferty, who sees Lulu as a fairy-tale damsel in distress and sweeps her off to the home of the town's wealthiest woman, the regal Mrs. Gansevoort. So begins Lulu's adventures in self-transformation, as she is drawn further and further into a demimonde where she finds herself a pawn in the games of people who will never really care to know her. "Raymond Kennedy's wrting has the touch of magic!" - The New Yorker "If it is a sentence Raymond Kennedy wrote, then it is a sentence an artist made." - Gordon Lish "Raymond Kennedy's chronicle of the destruction of a sensitive girl at the hands of a vengeful society queen and her slave-gigolo highlights this talented novelist's flair for atmosphere and his revelation of the murky recesses of the human psyche." - James Purdy
