Amy Steadman is the young heiress of a prosperous children's book publishing franchise in New York. After her grandmother is murdered, apparently in a botched robbery, Amy goes to North Carolina to clean out the family home. But as she sorts through dusty files and boxes, she is haunted by the memory of her mother's suicide, which apparently happened here when Amy was only three.

When his friend's death is ruled a suicide, Kevin Connor--a hustler by trade, sleuth by default--sets out to prove a case of murder.

Regina Cutter is the mother of two grown children and the victim of her husband's midlife crisis.

Out of a marriage, an income, and a place to live, Regina has relocated to Boston's Back Bay, where her psychic aunt has bequeathed her a townhouse—and some paranormal ability.

Adjusting to her new middle-class life and taking on a new job as a police psychic, Reggie is called upon to help prove the innocence of a falsely imprisoned

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