Predator And Prey

                                                                

Prolific author Gail Giles has written a gripping suspense novel that vividly illustrates the twisted relationship between predator and prey. Ames Ford is fifteen years old, and up until this time she has led a sheltered, yet comfortable life with lots of material advantages. All of this ends abruptly when her father is brought up on embezzlement charges, loses his job, and the family is forced to move to new neighborhood, and adjust to some uncomfortable life changes. Drowning in an unfamiliar environment, and feeling isolated from her family which is coming apart at the seams, Ames begins to act out in self-destructive ways and falls in  love with the wrong person. Marc is twenty-two years old, constantly in trouble with the law, possessive, and loves guns. Recognizing and taking advantage of Ames' neediness and vulnerability, he convinces her to participate in a plot to kill her own parents so they can always be together. In Dark Song Gail Giles forces us to realize that there is a hidden darkness in all of us, and it only takes the right combination of elements for it to explode. 

Double Life Enigma

Kathryn Lyons has been happily married to her pilot husband, Jack for sixteen years. When she is awakened in the middle of the night to be told that Jack's plane crashed off the coast of Ireland, killing all those onboard, she is shocked and overwhelmed by grief. As an investigation into the cause of the fatal crash is pursued, authorities begin to blame the accident on Jack. Kathryn, who knows that her husband was a supremely talented pilot with a flawless record, will not allow his name to be tarnished, and begins to probe  the events that transpired before the flight. Her search leads her to revelations that she did not anticipate and was in no way prepared for. Who was Jack? The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve forces us to wonder how well we really know those who are closest to us, and to search more carefully under the surface of the everyday life that we take for granted.

Pushed To The Edge

Fifty year-old Marcy Taggart is no stranger to tragedy. Peter, her husband of twenty-five years, has left her for the golf pro at their exclusive country club. Two years ago, her mentally ill daughter, Devon, propelled a canoe to the middle of the lake near their summer home, and vanished without a trace. All that was found was the capsized canoe, and Devon was presumed dead. Now, Marcy finds herself in Ireland on what should have been an anniversary trip with her husband, struggling to put the pieces of her life back together. When Marcy is relaxing in a pub after a long day of sightseeing, she sees Devon casually stroll past the large front window. Is her daughter really alive? Did Devon stage her accident, try to shed her unhappiness, and begin life anew in another country? In Now You See Her by Joy Fielding, Marcy begins a frantic race against time and circumstance to reclaim her daughter and put her turbulent past to rest. Joy Fielding has a rare gift for creating believable, complex, and engaging characters, whose flaws make them all the more human.