Mystery Baby

The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me, but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family. One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and beautiful round blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me.

In River Glen, Oregon, rumors are spreading about the Babysitter Stalker. One victim was fatally stabbed. A second fell—or was pushed—from a rooftop deck. High school sophomore Jamie Whelan, scheduled to watch the Ryerson twins tonight, isn't worried. She's more interested in the party she'll go to later, as soon as her sister Emma arrives to take over babysitting duties. Twenty years after that night's vicious attack, Emma remains scarred in body and mind. Jamie still feels guilty over trading places that fateful evening. Then suddenly another young babysitter is attacked.

While the residents on Beach Drive prepare for the welcomed arrival of a new baby, they are blindsided by the newest resident's plans to close down Marlow House. No one is prepared for the deadly secrets the new neighbor unwittingly conceals. Walt knows more than he realizes. If he can just remember.

Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe's mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Roe's brother Philip helps her search the house, and they happen upon a body outside. But it isn't Virginia's. Who is this mystery woman dead in their backyard, and what happened to Virginia?

Lady Violet returns with St. Sevier to her family seat, and finds Derwent Hall at sixes and sevens upon the occasion of her nephew’s christening. Other guests have brought their children along to celebrate the occasion, and Sebastian MacHeath is on hand to serve as godfather. Nobody seems to be getting along, despite the happy nature of the gathering. Summer heat builds to an unbearable crescendo as clandestine affairs, marital troubles, and family tensions escalate. Then somebody starts kidnapping little girls.

A wounded hero, an orphaned baby and a heroine with a secret. He lost his only sister and then her child. After his sister’s death in an auto accident, Cash Langley expects to raise his niece. But when her will is read, he gets a painful jolt. Instead, Dena left the baby in her best friend’s custody, not him. How could she betray him like that? When she learns this, she is shocked too. Jane Everett grew up next door to the Langleys. When Dena was a child and Cash, a teen, their mother abandoned the family. Afterward Dena spent more and more time with the next door neighbors. They come ...

Jillian Kane appears to have it all - a successful career, a gorgeous home, a loving husband, and two wonderful children. The reality behind closed doors is something else entirely. For nine years, she has hid the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing that if she left, Gordon would destroy her and destroy them. When she flees in an act of desperation, her worst nightmare is realized and she finds herself on the run with her two young children, no money, and no plan.

In the sleepy town of Shadow Cove, Maine, a woman’s desperate flight becomes a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse. After escaping Iraq with her twin sister, Jasmine seeks refuge from Qasim, the terrorist she was forced to marry. She’s determined to carve out a safe haven in this peaceful coastal town for herself and her unborn child. But her dangerous pursuer threatens to shatter her fragile world, leaving her with nowhere to hide. Enter Derrick, a guardian angel in the guise of a friend. Drawn to Jasmine's quiet strength, Derrick vows to shield her from harm, even as the boundaries of ...

One unforgettable night with a stranger, only to discover he’s a billionaire crime lord. Dangerous, infuriating and completely off-limits. Vincent Moretti has a gaze like midnight, a past that whispers of blood, and a body that draws my eyes like a moth to a flame. As a photographer, I accidentally captured a crime scene. I never imagined that the mysterious handsome man I’d had a one-night stand with would be in the shot. When he discovers I’ve turned the evidence over to the police—evidence that could ruin his mafia family—Vincent demands I stay with him, for my own safety. His ...

A woman and her child are missing, a U.S. senator accused of orchestrating the disappearance . Spring is dragging its feet in central Minnesota. The snow is disappearing, but not fast enough for Minnesota Bureau of Apprehension agent Doc Hunter who has gone south to get in some outdoor golf. He’s feeling good about his game, he’s getting ready for the Minnesota Open, when he’s called back to work to investigate the disappearance. Doc is not happy about having his golf game interrupted, and he’s even less happy when his investigation discovers he has been lied to – by a U.S. ...

A science experiment turned dangerous. A secret life is later revealed, a life of immortality. Anton is a handsome immortal, driven by blood thirst, created from poverty, and loneliness in the late 1970’s. After living many years in isolation, Anton has a grand revelation. He decides his lonely, miserable life has lasted far too long. Overwhelmed with depression, he’s ready to end it all. Planning his demise, he puts together a bucket list, and once the list has been completed, he plans to call it quits. What he never expected is that while he's busy trying to end his life, he’d find ...

Suzette knows her clever and manipulative seven-year-old daughter doesn’t love her. She can see the hatred and jealousy in her eyes. And as Hanna’s subtle acts of cruelty threaten to tear her and her husband apart, Suzette fears her very life may be in grave danger....

The neighbors all whisper about the two sisters who live on the hill: It's Blanche Hudson who lives in that house, you know. The Blanche Hudson, who starred in big Hollywood films all those years ago. Such a shame her career ended so early, all because of that accident. They say it was her sister, Jane, who did it - that she crashed the car because she was drunk. They say that's why she looks after Blanche now, because of the guilt. That's what they say, at least.

She bursts into my life like a storm, and nothing is the same again. One by one, I watch as my friends fall under her spell. Only I see that her smiles don’t reach her cold, furious eyes. And when I’m accused of things I didn’t do, when my home is vandalized, I know she’s behind it. But she only lets her mask slip when no one is looking, so if I say anything, I’ll look crazy. So when the baby shower comes around, I’m sitting on a velvet sofa in a posh hotel room, surrounded by balloons. But that afternoon, I finally learn the unbelievable truth. There is no baby....

For protection, my father orchestrates a fake marriage with a mob boss. Instead, it thrusts me into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Reese Bowman, the hunky, fierce mafia boss, is now my fake husband and the man who will take my virginity for real. On the second day of our ruse, a baby from his past appears on his doorstep. Add pretend mom to the act and the stakes couldn't be higher. Watching him command his dangerous world with ease, I fall hard. Despite his attempts to keep his distance, he can't keep his hands or his lips off me. When a long-lost enemy snatches me in the night, our ...

When Ettie and her sister Elsa-May pick up the baby left at their door, a letter falls to the ground. The letter pleads with them to keep quiet about the infant as his life is in danger. When retired Detective Crowley stumbles onto their secret, is it already too late?

Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger.

The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case.

Trick Baby tells the story of White Folks, a blue-eyed, light-haired con artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a "trick baby," a child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Refusing to abandon his life in the ghetto and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older mentor, Blue. What happens next is unbelievable.

ME: Staring down at the sweet baby in my arms, I feel panic instead of love. Because this isn’t the child I gave birth to. My husband whispers to the midwife. They all think I’m going crazy. But the tiny boy in my arms is crying again. I’m certain: he knows I’m not his mummy. And I’ll do whatever it takes to get my son back.