In Regency England, an actress finds herself suddenly playing on a whole new stage . . .Having risen from the squalor of London's back alleys to be the darling of Drury Lane, Meg Fletcher was indeed the consummate actress. And it takes all her considerable skills to conceal her shock when she learns she was actually the legitimate daughter—and heir—of Sir Richard Carswell, an aging baronet . . .Determined to learn why her mother fled her husband in terror a...

Coleman Cooper is a troubled young man who can never get anything right—not even his own suicide.When he is sent to an open-door mental health facility in a small New England village to get his life back on track, his journey darkens even further: someone starts killing the psychiatrists, one by one.After taking a job tending bar at a local country inn—the social heart of the quirky little town where everyone knows everyone and grudges can last for decades—Coleman unwitting...