At a quiet restaurant in an unnamed city a man and a woman sit across from each other. She is distraught. He is quickly drunk. Neither can stop thinking of what they've just seen - a deed so brutal, so terrible as to leave the woman in tears. Was it a moment of meaningless urban violence or was it something more?At a quiet restaurant in an unnamed city a man and a woman sit across from each other. She is distraught. He is quickly drunk. Neither can stop thinking of what they've just seen - a deed so brutal, so terrible as to leave the woman in tears. Was it a moment of meaningless urban violence or was it something more? From the author of the dark short story Hide and Seek and the bestselling novella The Sickroom comes a tale about the things we do for love and the devilish monkey that dwells within us all.

From the author of the astonishing young adult novel Home comes a haunting tale of identities taken, lost and found, and an obsessive friendship between two young women who have everything to gain from one another and nothing to lose but themselves. When a shy university softmore begins to feel that her life is disintegrating around her, she’s more than willing to accept glamorous Regan Lathie’s offer of an escape—a room in her apartment, away from the campus. But only once she’s moved in does she understand the true height of Regan’s status. As their friendship deepens and she is sucked further and further into Regan’s world, she begins to see that being Regan Lathie, the girl everyone desires, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and coming back to herself might be the only way she can escape The Grimly Queen.

Abandoned by her father and ostracized by her fellow villagers, Shallah never imagined she would lead anything but a small, solitary life. But when a mute boy is found on the green and the village council seems poised to cast him out, she elects to accompany him home, though she's no idea where it might be. Crippled by her own insecurities and the taunts of the village naysayers, Shallah struggles to protect her remarkable young charge from larger-than-life enemies and an unavoidable fate too terrible to contemplate.

Jacob and Macon don’t have anything in common. He’s a thirteen-year-old city boy trying to find his place in the world and she’s his little country cousin, the prodigy painter who hardly speaks. When Jacob is sent to stay with his Aunt and Uncle for the summer and falls ill, he’s exiled to the attic—the sickroom—and discovers his love of art in the paintings he finds there. Turning his back on his troubles back home, Jacob launches himself into an obsessive friendship with the younger cousin he always ignored, a secret friendship. But secrets can be dangerous, and when a tantalizing chance to reinvent himself arises, Jacob makes a choice that changes both his life and Macon’s forever. A powerful story from the author of Home and The Grimly Queen about the betrayals we regret, the friendships we cherish, and the summers we never forget.