In 1875 Savannah, Rachel Fleming Barlow Newman McCandless is known to her neighbors as the Black Widow. Only twenty-one year old, she has been widowed three times, most recently by the death of Phillip McCandless whose last words to her-incoherent ramblings about an illegal arms shipment-have left her terrified as well as grief-stricken. Phillip's long-estranged brother Captain Daniel Slade, convinced that the "Black Widow" has struck again, pretends...

Anna Daisy Clark found a bag containing half a million dollars on graduation day. It was the capital she needed to start a business and secure her future. Vowing to pay it back one day, she never looked back. Ten years later, Annie is the owner of a successful chain of elegant coffee bars. She is engaged to a wealthy coffee plantation owner and her life seems complete. The dark history of the money returns, however, and her life is plunged into chaos...

Having left her hometown years before with her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead, Shelby Cole decides to return home when she begins to receive anonymous letters that claim that her daughter is alive.

A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. From her bed in a bayou cottage on the outskirts of town, Olivia Bechet has a terrifying vision of the murder. Weeks later, another violent vision shatters her sleep. But jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn't believe her - even when a second body turns up, slain in exactly the same bizarre, ritualistic manner Olivia described ...Frustrated by Bentz's skepticism, captivated...