Bestseller Saul (Suffer the Children) links an exorcism of the devil with a plot to kill the pope in this over-the-top religious thriller. When thugs at a Boston public high school savagely beat 16-year-old Ryan McIntyre, who's struggling with the death of his father in Iraq, Ryan's mother transfers him to a Catholic school. At St. Isaac's Preparatory Academy, where a student's disappearance and other bizarre events have caused worry, a popular priest,...

The sudden, tragic death of her husband leaves Caroline Evans alone in New York City to raise her children with little money and even less hope. When she meets and marries handsome, successful Anthony Fleming, the charismatic man of her dreams, she believes her life is destined for happiness. She and her children move into her new husband's spacious apartment in the legendary Rockwell on Central Park West. Despite her son's instinctive misgivings...

In Seattle, a serial killer is executed in the electric chair, watched by Ann Jeffers, the reporter who helped to convict him. At the instant the killer dies, Jeffers' husband suffers a heart attack at home, after which he is a completely different man. What is more, the killings continue.

Alison's new stepfather, the charismatic plastic surgeon Peter Dunn, is certain he can turn Alison into a vision of loveliness. Reluctantly, Alison agrees to undergo the first procedure, and her transformation begins. But soon Alison discovers a picture of Peter's first wife. To Alison's horror, she notices a resemblance between the image in the photo and the work her stepfather is doing on her.--From publisher description.

It's an offer anthropologist Katharine Sundquist cannot refuse - a chance to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui. But for her 16-year-old son, Michael, the move is the last thing he needs while he struggles with the pain of his father's death. And here, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, a terrible danger waits...

Newly separated from her husband and struggling to raise her two children, MaryAnne Carpenter finds her troubles multiplied when she and her family become prey to an evil force that is stalking the Idaho wilderness

For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel's name in wonder and fear.  Some say he is a folktale, created to frighten children on cold winter nights.  Some swear he is a terrifying spirit retumed to avenge the past.  But soon . . . very soon . . . some will learn that Nathaniel lives still—that he is darkly, horrifyingly real.  Nathaniel—he is the voice that calls to young Michael...

The Academy is a school for special children, gifted or cursed with extraordinary minds. Josh tries to save the others from an evil intellect and death.

When her teenage daughter vanishes shortly after Kara Marshall and her husband put their Long Island home on the market, Kara fears the worst despite the suspicions of police that the girl is a runaway.