Ted Turner and Arthur Blank are not Atlanta's only business giants. In contrast to their very public, attention-seeking personalities, Walker Troup prefers the life of the enigmatic loner. His peaceful life of quiet deals and world travel is savagely attacked and everything he values is in jeopardy. Blackmail, betrayal, and murder have blown the top off of his private world, leaving him unsure of anything and everything. Troup quickly discovers that he can no longer trust his top business ...

From the wealth and grandeur of downtown Chicago to the lovely environs of Atlanta's Piedmont Park, Bobby "Capone" Carter, the heir to a self-made African-American millionaire, is hiding from many people, including his own family. Trading in a life of luxury, Bobby is well hidden as a homeless man in Midtown Atlanta. Having left the Windy City and his upright father and gorgeous sister, in an alcoholic rage, Bobby's life spins farther out of control down South. Everyone seems to be looking...

It's 1983. Alex Andrews is an athletically and intellectually gifted college freshman, who has enjoyed a life of wealth and accolades. He attends The University of Alabama, where his father is a football legend, as well as having been one of Hall of Fame Coach Bear Bryant's favorites. From his earliest memories, Alex has been treated like Bama royalty, the heir apparent to his father's outstanding football legacy. To top it off, a beautiful young woman has fallen madly in love with him. Mo...

After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better, to be better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn--a town without anything to hold onto but the past.Staying with his grandmother, Roy discovers a family history of good intentions and bad choices, of making do without much chance of doing better. Around him, families lose their so...

This novel of Pittsburgh, by the author of Last Night at the Lobster, "celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Pittsburgh, 1998: Chris "Crest" Tolbert is eighteen years old, a soon-to-be father, and partially paralyzed after an accident that left his best friend dead. As he navigates the challenges of new fatherhood and life as a paraplegic, Crest must also negotiate his relationships with his bo...

In the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Murder Suspect, Tandy Angel delves deeper into her own dark history.Wealthy young women are being murdered on Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right places. Enter Tandy Angel. The first case she cracked was the mystery of her parents' deaths. Now, while she's working to exonerate her brother of his glamorous girlfriend's homici...

An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year: "A heartwarming, profane memoir about humor and resilience in the face of tragedy." — PeopleFor the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.At twenty-five, Dan Marshall has a good job, a great girlfriend, and a dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world....

No one will listen. No one will help. To survive, you must save yourself...The haunting saga of a little girl betrayed, and the strength and hope she needs to find a happy ending, from the hugely popular author of No One's Girl, Mothering Sunday and The Little Angel**, Rosie Goodwin. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Hutchinson and Shelia Newberry.**'Powerful and harrowing' - Peterborough Evening Telegraph

On June 28, 1980, Kelly Michelle Lund shoots and kills Oscar-nominated director John McFadden at a party in his home. For years, speculation swirls over the enigmatic seventeen-year-olds motives. Convicted of the murder, she loses her youth and her freedom-but keeps her secrets to herself.Thirty years later-and five years after her release from prison-the past has come back to haunt Kelly. Her father-in-law, movie legend Sterling Marshall, is found in a pool of blood in his home i...

"Dirk Hayhurst has done it again. . .Turns out he's a starter and a closer." —Tim Kurkjian, ESPNAs a major and not-so-major league pitcher, Dirk Hayhurst has learned to master more than striking out batters. While waiting for his name to be called in the bullpen, he honed his gifts as a storyteller, one the New York Times calls the "best writer in a baseball uniform." In this often hilarious collection of adventures on and off the diamond, Dirk details the intricacies of pulling of...

Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites f...

In this “morbidly funny”(The New York Times) thriller in Ace Atkin’s southern crime series, former Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson might be out of a job—but that doesn't mean he’s staying out of trouble...Quinn Colson is unemployed—voted out of his position as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. He has offers in bigger and better places, but before he goes, Colson’s got one more job to do—bring down county kingpin Johnny Stagg’s criminal operations f...