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Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing must find a new purpose.
 

Jack Morgan, ex-Marine helicopter pilot and CIA agent, is in Italy to open the latest outpost of his international private investigation firm. But when a priest is murdered at the firm's opening party, Morgan and his newly-appointed deputy, Matteo Ricci, come under intense scrutiny. As Morgan and Ricci work the case, they discover that eight priests have died. This case rests on breaking the secret hold of the Holy See's all-powerful, all knowing inner circle.

After her medical license gets revoked, Army combat surgeon Maggie has lost her purpose but not her nerve or her passion. Then she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best ultra-discreet care that money can buy. When one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance, Maggie fulfills her end of the agreement. But after the patient disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself.

Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family. But her holidays are interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer's first murder. And it's only a matter of time before he kills again.

Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will after her husband left her a small fortune. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder. To save himself, he must find the real killer.

Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, walked right into a robbery in progress in a convenience store. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world. She may be down, but she’s not out. When a woman vanishes, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, Sloan searches online for similar cases and finds them spread across three states. It will take every ounce of her endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case.

In 1965, twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother, who has shipped out to serve in Vietnam. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. But the real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. 

Nash has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Then Nash is approached by the FBI to become an 'inside man.' His purpose: To expose an enterprise, led by Victoria Steers, that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. 

1975 is a time of change in America. In the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. Their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house—a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. And now, to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all, a difficult task must be completed.

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble. As a bank president, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. Recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island. Then Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor, a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. He is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as "Nightshade." Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
 

First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. Nothing is missing. Second—a store to buy a coat. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note with a desperate plea for help.