Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.

"A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by a stranger"--

Jason Seaver moves his psychiatry practice into the house so his wife, Maggie, can return to the workforce as a journalist after fifteen years as a housewife and stay-at-home mom to their three kids: charming but mischievous Mike, brainy Carol, and Ben, the youngest. Jason soon finds that managing a household is trickier than he thought. But for this upper-middle-class family on Long Island, life is often served with loads of love, a side of laughs,...

"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...

"Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success-until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one...