Torn from the embrace of her poor but loving family, Rain Arnold now lives surrounded by opulent riches but feels more like an outsider than ever before. Her heart's true passion - the theatre - may prove to be her salvation, as she embarks on a journey to unmask a legacy of long buried family secrets.
Enrolled in one of England's most prestigious drama schools, Rain is sent to London to live with her great-aunt Lenora. Although she is treated little better than a servant by her aunt and uncle, Rain is happy; she has new friends, and a new determination to succeed in her chosen career.
But soon Rain realises that something is dreadfully wrong. She hears footsteps at night, and the high-pitched laughter of a little girl. She sees strange lights in rooms that are supposed to be closed off. And everything about the place is as cold and sonless as a museum. Behind the icy sheen of wealth and privilege lies something unspeakable. Something that could turn Rain's most precious dreams into an inescapable nightmare...

Tragedy strikes the Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Lou and her younger brother Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seem that their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the children on her Virginia farm.
Life is harsh in the Virginia mountains, where the land must be worked if one is to survive. But with the friendship of Jimmy `Diamond' Skinner and the compassion of local lawyer Cotton Longfellow, the children gradually rebuild their lives. Then their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain. Determined to protect her beloved farm from the ravages of big business, Louisa Mae refuses to sell, and soon the Cardinal family find themselves ensnared in another battle, to be played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom. A battle for justice, for survival, and for the right to stay together in the only place they know as home.

From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go away Certain criminal cases maintain an undeniable hold on our collective imagination. Now John Douglas examines eight of the most controversial and unforgettable cases in criminal history, dismantling the conventional wisdom, building new profiles and re-evaluating suspects. Witness revisionist theory at its most startling in The Cases That Haunt Us.

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I was a different person then, and I was with her on that dawn road. And her death was not an accident, in spite of what it says on her death certificate and what everyone else believes. I should know, because I was there when it happened. So that makes me -?
There's no need for me to say the words: try working it out for yourself.

As the sun rises over an idyllic Greek island, Carla Finch lies dead on a lonely road. Beside her Helen North, the only person who can possibly know how Carla died; but the only thing Helen knows for sure is that it can't have been an accident. Since meeting Carla, neither woman told the complete truth about herself; using make- believe and lies to hide the lives they left behind, and now Helen must lie about the events of their last night together.
As Helen tries to rebuild her life back in England, haunted by remorse and guilt, she is drawn back into the centre of Carla's life and world. As Helen becomes more involved with Carla's secrets, she finds herself drawn closer to Carla's friends, children and above all to Daniel, the man Carla loved. And Helen discovers that she really knew nothing about the woman called Carla.
But when a figure from her island nightmare arrives with questions only Helen can answer, she is forced to confront the truth about that hot, balmy night when Carla died. But in a world where reality and fantasy are becoming more entangled and blurred than ever, can Helen trust her own judgement? And will she ever learn the truth about Carla?

Crowner John is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder of the overman of a tin mining gang working for Walter Knapman, one of Devon's most powerful tin merchants. The case is puzzling, but things get even more confusing when Walter disappears.
A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad Saxon. How on earth can Crowner John sort all this out when his wife and mistress hate him, and his clerk is in the grip of a suicidal depression? Surely things can't get any worse?