When a nameless girl is brought in, drowned, to the mortuary where Stewart Park works as a photographer, he becomes obsessed with her frozen beauty. Stewarts domestic life is more than a little unsettling: Dad, who's given to consuming but short-lived crazes, has recently installed Lucy the pit-bull terrier as part of his home-security campaign, and Stewarts small nephews, Lee and Lenny, are constantly dumped on him by his evasive sister Mary. Lee and Lenny are behaving in an inexplicably withdrawn fashion, Mary appears to be keeping dubious company, and Stewart cant help worrying that destructive Dad will one day break into his bedroom and take apart his precious computer. Small wonder, then, that Stewart devotes himself to finding out all he can about the drowned girl. His enquiries - and their consequences - begin to take over his life. Advancing into a dark and vicious world he's never even dreamt of, he realises, belatedly, that he's a hopelessly ill-equipped player in a very sinister game...

Kate Carr is such a lucky teenager. Although her mother has left, she is far from neglected at home. The girls at school envy her because her father is such a charmer, the most mesmerizing minister in Edinburgh. The clever new girl, Lydia, envies her most of all. Sometimes, Kate wonders what it would be like to have a mother like Lydia's, or even a doting grandmother like stupid Moira's, but she knows what she has is better. She is special; she is Keith Carr's first fruit, his offering. He is training her up in his image, to have It - his special power, the ability to manipulate people. She practices what he's taught her with devastating effect. But a recurrent dream tantalizes Kate. On the night she hosts a sleepover, it comes to her once more and a truth which has long eluded her is revealed. Then nothing can cleanse her world but fire and death

" Hey you! After all these years." Only one person used to write to her like this. And she fell for it. And kept on falling, deeper and deeper, until there was nothing there to catch her. Except me. I picked her up and put her together. Held her together like glue that takes an age to bind. Fifteen years we've been married. But now he's back. A Blast from the Past. Guy Latimer and his wife Carlie have made a life and a child together. But there's always been someone else haunting their past - Magnus, snake-hipped and darkly sexual. Years ago, he took Carlie and brought her to the brink of suicide. Now Blast From the Past - the website that reunites friends and lovers - brings Magnus back into the present. Their present. And this time, resisting him could be murder...

Nobody ever suggested that four year old Rosie meant to kill her baby brother and she can remember nothing about it. All she knows is that she has grown up in the aftermath. In the life that comes after, only Max stays the same - beautiful Max, her big brother, putting himself like a wall between Rosie and a world that threatens to turn against her.