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A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son.

In a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of

His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14.

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence.

White picks the site of a subway station, on his birthday, to end his life. Black, an ex-con with newfound faith, ends up saving White and bringing him back to his apartment.

Now a statewide troubleshooter, Detective Lucas Davenport is plunged into a murder investigation that involves a Russian corpse, 50-year-old bullets, and some high-level government connections.

Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before, but never one quite like this.

Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop.

Following a late-night phone call from his associate Lucas Davenport, Flowers is thrust back into the world of homicide investigation.

On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered.

Years agos, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hit-woman in the business.

Werewolves don’t have a how-to manual—nor do men embarking on a new life together.

Skinny, quiet hipster Dylan Warner was the kind of guy other men barely glanced at until an evening’s indiscretion with a handsome stranger turned him into a werewolf.

In the mid-1950s, Jack Dayton flees his working-class prospects in Omaha and heads to Hollywood, convinced he’ll be the next James Dean.

Aside from a sympathetic parole officer, Aiden Finn is alone in the world. He knows this is his last chance—after a lifetime in and out of prison, one more mistake will land him there to stay.