"Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared. Now, true crime author Amanda Bailey is looking to revive her career by writing a book on the case. The Alperton baby has turned eighteen; finding them will be the scoop of the year. But rival author...

"At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....

Each step in Annabelle's 2,700-mile cross-country run brings her closer to facing a trauma from her past in National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti's novel about the heart, all the ways it breaks, and its journey to healing. Because sometimes against our will, against all odds, we go forward. Then ... Annabelle's life wasn't perfect, but it was full-full of friends, family, love. And a boy ... whose attention Anabelle found flattering and unsettling...

The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kars McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths. All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now,...

In a forgotten massacre during Guatemala's decades-long civil war, a young boy was spared, only to be raised by one of the very soldiers who killed his family. Nearly 30 years after the tragedy, it will take a dedicated team - from a forensic scientist to a young Guatemalan prosecutor - to uncover the truth and bring justice to those responsible...by finding the missing boy named Oscar.

"For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it, but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was left alive, infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter. Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family...

High school student Vada survives a school tragedy but then is faced with navigating relationships and life while coming to grips with her experience.

"Quando gli spari risuonarono nel centro commerciale, Simone Knox sapeva che cosa fare. Mettersi al riparo. Questo è quello che ti insegnano nel caso di una sparatoria di massa. Quindi, in quella terribile e calda giornata dell'estate 2005, Simone fu fortunata. Era sfuggita alla morte. Ma non sarebbe mai più stata più la stessa. Più di dieci anni dopo, Simone ancora lotta con il dolore, il trauma, e il malriposto senso di colpa che prova un sopravvissuto....