When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
Grace Fraser is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
A unique story told over two distinct halves, "Summer" follows Sam, a man drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost. "Winter" follows Helen, a strong-willed outsider who comes to the island seeking answers, but whose arrival precipitates a fractious battle to decide its fate.
A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.
Self-made politician Peter Laurence's life seems to be falling apart – or rather, is being picked apart by his enemies. As personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda while others plot to bring him down. However, events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
Główna bohaterka Joanna Chyłka jest zdolna, bezkompromisowa, odważna i niepokorna. W prawniczym świecie pełnym mężczyzn w niczym im nie ustępuje. Gdy trzyletnia Nikola Szlezyngier znika bez śladu, a policja nie znajduje dowodów wskazujących na porwanie, głównymi podejrzanymi stają się rodzice dziecka. To właśnie Chyłka i jej nowy aplikant Kordian Oryński podejmują się obrony małżeństwa. Wszystkie poszlaki wskazują jednak na winę Szlezyngierów. Czy prawnicy zdołają wspólnie doprowadzić sprawę do szczęśliwego finału?
Earth has frozen over and the last surviving humans live on a giant train circling the globe, struggling to coexist amid the delicate balance onboard.