Seattle sixteen-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell.

"A real treat" about first loves, coming home, and chocolate cake from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sweet Talk and Sweet Spot (Debbie Macomber). Jesse Keyes has changed her ways. With a steady job and a vibrant son, Gabe, she's in a far better place than when she left Seattle five years ago, pregnant and misunderstood. Now it's time to go home and face her demons. But her sisters, Claire and Nicole, aren't exactly impressed with...

A murderer, dubbed the Indian Killer, is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and John Smith, a Native American man who was adopted by a white couple at birth and who is slowly descending into madness due to his alienation from either the white or Indian culture, seems to be a likely suspect.

As he confronts an unofficial strike by the officers of the Seattle Police Force, Detective Lou Boldt, with the help of police psychologist Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, investigates a string of robberies and the brutal near-murder of a female cop, only to discover that these crimes may be linked to the strike and that his own life is now in danger.

"For once Joanne Walker's not out to save world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead. But it's Halloween and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party..." --p.[4] of Cover.

Cutting himself loose from the Seattle police force, semi-retirement takes Beau on a cruise, where the ex-wife of on-board conference speaker Dr. Harrison Featherman disappears.

He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life - including his multiple lovers and his past - in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never makes news. But from the moment one of his sources takes...

It was a scene from a "slasher flick"--A beautiful woman's terrified screams piercing the air, a dead body sprawled at her feet, blood staining the pristine sands of a Washington beach. But the blood is real, and the victim won't be rising when a director yells, "Cut!" In one horrific instant, a homicide detective's well-earned holiday has become a waking nightmare.

"Years ago, when J.P. Beaumont was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, his partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson's ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue's teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont's plea and Jared's quick action saved the two boys from their...

Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...