"There's a dead body at the bottom of a pool in the backyard of a guest house in Key West. Who is he? And what caused his untimely demise? Maybe it's suicide. Or an accident. But more likely-- murder! And who's responsible? It could be Skip, the handsome marine biology student. Or perhaps it's Edward the disco entreneur. But then again, maybe the owner of the guest house Pearl, or her lover, Janis had something to do with it. And what about Officer Simon, the quiet and mysterious cop? Or Aurelio, the sexy houseboy? But, of course, it could be Frank, the insurance salesman. Or maybe it's..." -- Back cover.

Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the Los Angeles Times called “terrifying and romantic,” the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it “fast, colorful and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.”

An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill Bialosky "Bialosky urgently captures the moment in an adult's life when reflection leads to regret, and a desire to recapture the promise of one's youth becomes a kind of desperation. A vulnerable and searching tale of art, myth, and mortality." —Oprah Daily Something terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, spending her off-hours sequestered in the museum's austere galleries, she is haunted by memories of a yearlong friendship with a colleague, a fellow poet struggling with his craft. As secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, the pantheon of gods assume remarkably vivid lives of their own, forcing her to choose between reality and myth in an effort to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past and embrace a new vision for her future. The Deceptions is a page-turning and seductively told exploration of female sexuality and ambition as well as a human drama that dares to test the stories we tell ourselves. It is also a brilliant investigation of a life caught between the dueling magnetic poles of privacy and its appropriation in art and literature. Celebrated poet, memoirist, and novelist Jill Bialosky has reached new and daring heights in her boldest work yet.

As a child growing up in the once-beautiful city of Budapest, Anna Porter’s grandfather told her stories of heroes and strife and survival, some as old as the Carpathian basin, some still holding the sting of recent war and hardship. Some were fanciful, most were true, and all gave her a personal sense of history, both national and familial. This compulsively readable saga blends one family’s story with that of its homeland during one of the 20th century’s most tumultuous periods.

Nancy checks into a luxury hotel where danger comes free of charge. While Nancy investigates threats against Italian-born student Gina Fiorellao, Gina targets Ned Nickerson for romance. Nancy uncovers secret ambitions and sinister desires that could prove fatal—not only for Gina, but for Nancy as well.

Book one is focused on the Island Kingdom of Kebra founded by General Jakarta Osiris a Blackamoor who along with his fifty thousand plus army endured a bloody battle and took the massive island group that sits just off the coast of Southeast Africathe taking of the Islands allowed the Romans to defeat the Germans and the great Julius Cesar was so pleased he awarded the Islands to the General as a reward for his service to Rome thusthe monarchy was born and Jakarta Osiris began to write his prophecy dubbed the Jakarta Papers, that called for African kingdoms to unite and build an empire not unlike that of Rome over the centuries his successors would add chapters of their own by the twentieth century his prophecy became Jakarta Unlimited a plan to unite African nations through corporate development; the twenty-first century brought on the Blackstreet Prospectus as ordered by Jakarta Osiris IV affectingly referred to as the Chairman and it is his generation that has begun the implementation of the plan whos concept of mission is to bring selected African nations into world power status And so it begins.