Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busily planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army. One of them, Captain Logan Carstens, the son and heir of a wealthy family, seems less than happy to be home and with good reason. While Logan was in France, he fell in love with a beautiful French woman named Noelle. He desperately wanted to propose, but he was already engaged and felt bound to honor his commitment. When Logan receives a letter supposedly from Noelle begging for money to help her flee the terrible conditions in France and come to America, Elizabeth is suspicious. There is no way to verify the letter is actually from Noelle, and she fears that a con man or woman might be trying to take advantage of Logan in his vulnerable state. But that is not all Elizabeth has to worry about. Vicious thug Oscar Thornton has gotten wind of her wedding announcement and realizes the woman who conned him is still alive and well. Gideon and Elizabeth have to figure out a way to help their friend while making sure their worst enemy does not destroy their future. . . .

Why is everyone hunting Megan Garrity? Charles Hill watched the smugglers' Zodiac carrying Megan and Nick Garrity speed through San Francisco Bay's frigid waters robbed of color by the reflecting dark of the evening sky. Megan was breaking into the government experiment that is Norcal, a place of massive social and scientific advancements. A place where her autistic son could thrive. Charles, charged with bringing Megan and Nick to safety, hadn't envisioned a high degree of difficulty on a simple recovery mission. If his reclusive employer had shared Megan's secret with Charles, he might have been able to prevent them from being hijacked by a vendetta driven blackhat hacker armed with a perpetually angry psychopath. Worse, Charles had no idea the hacker and hitman were under the direction of the unofficial, completely corrupt, King of Norcal. LUW Quill Award Winner "The action is unrelenting, characterization and intrigue well done...High-octane adventure with nonstop twists and turns." Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer "Filled with characters easy to love or hate depending on your ethical quotient. Bill Garwin has set in a virtual feast of action, adventure, mayhem, murder, kidnapping, extortion, corruption, revelations, recriminations, hacking, hijinks, and hubris in his impressively imaginative novel, City of Schemes." Pacific Book Review - Starred Review "Bill Garwin is a skilled storyteller with a unique gift for plot." Readers' Favorite

The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar—and disturbing—story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel—and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.

Crafty politicians, railroad barons, bank robbers, and bounty hunters just barely on the right side of the law are all on stage as the transcontinental railroad comes at last to Old Los Angeles. America's premier historical novelist takes readers on a dangerous ride through the Old West, alongside an orphaned young woman and the railroad bandit who has adopted her.

This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.