Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols; the result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover.

In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.

"Olivia Garza thrives in her unconventional, service-oriented life. By day, she helps troubled teens . . . by night, she creates a viral web series when she tries to better understand her mother's desperate decisions by retracing her steps with a camera. So far, Olivia has been an anonymous narrator, but she's promised to reveal herself in the last stop on her documentary: Kenya. Prince Louis, heir to the throne of the small European kingdom of Alloria,...