Chris Jennings' job with the Field County Sheriff's Department allows him to follow his passions--upholding the law and keeping one woman safe from harm, until agoraphobic Daisy Little witnesses a crime from her bedroom window that places her in imminent danger.

"Ava Wilder's home in small-town Iowa is her sanctuary. A talented sketch artist with severe agoraphobia, Ava spends her days drawing a far more adventurous life than her invisible disability allows. Until she receives a package from London, explaining that she has inherited her Aunt Beverly's entire estate--on condition that she lives in Bev's West End flat for a year. Once overseas, Ava wonders if she's simply swapped one prison for another. The...

"As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once-ascendant rock band's irreconcilable break-up. Francis hasn't shaved in months, hasn't so much as changed out of his bathrobe--"the uniform of a Life in Default"--for nine days. Other than the agoraphobia that continues to hold him hostage,...