A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world.

"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" -- provided by publisher.

A suicidal billionaire, a burnt-out Washington litigator, and a woman who has forsaken technology to work in the wilds of Brazil are all brought together by an astounding mystery of the testament.

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Hoping to further her dream of becoming a serious journalist by tracking down a reclusive best-selling writer in the Alaskan wilds, gossip columnist Carrie Slayton discovers that her subject, Finn, is as mysterious as his reputation suggests before facing a difficult choice between her career and her heart.

"Antonia Scott has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a disgraced police officer in Bilbao, is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed...

Hired to assist a famed reclusive writer trying to recapture her lost fortunes by completing a new manuscript, Alice Whitley becomes obsessed with identifying the paternity of her employer's precocious young son.

When August DuPont, eleven, leaves his eccentric Aunt Hydrangea's crumbling mansion for the first time ever, he meets family, makes a friend, and attracts a zombie.

Disgraced retired surgeon Fredrik is living alone on a Swedish island when his house catches on fire, prompting an arson investigation, a fateful meeting with a local journalist, and a reunion with his daughter.

Walking in the woods to escape the pain of his brother's Vietnam tour and complicated family troubles, 14-year-old Lucas bonds with a tragically haunted woman who he would prevent from leaving.