Jeff Grout

The story of 16-year-old Kayla Adams, whose mother, Karen is advised by the school’s counselor to send Kayla to get treatment at a youth residential treatment center after she gets expelled from school. Kayla arrives at the Utah facility on the same day as her roommate Amanda, a treatment program veteran who knows exactly what the girls were in for. Led by headmistress Miss Connie, the staff uses draconian methods including force-feeding medications, arbitrary punishments, solitary confinement, verbal and physical abuse to keep the students in line. After being pushed to their limits and stripped of their lifelines, including any ability to freely communicate with the outside world, the two young women must band together to survive and fight to expose the abuse before it’s too late.

Abby, a wildlife biologist, travels to remote Alaska where she finds inspirational guidance from a Native American family and possible romance from a rugged wilderness guide.

Cuando unas esmeraldas legendariamente malditas salen a la superficie desde el mercado negro para aparecer en una casa de subastas y están a punto de ser robadas, el exdetective Jeff Jackson es llamado a salir de su retiro para supervisar que las esmeraldas lleguen a salvo a su legítimo heredero.

Seattle está sumida en el caos a causa de un psicópata experto en explosivos. Ha colocado potentes bombas en diversos puntos de la ciudad, y el único que parece capaz de detenerle es Pierce, un experto en explosivos que había pertenecido al cuerpo de artificieros. Pero Pierce cae en una trampa del criminal, que pretende quitarse las culpas de encima haciéndolas recaer en éste. Kathleen será la única persona desde ese momento que confiará en Pierce, y le ayudará a intentar cazar al terrorista.