A disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in his desperation to have his love returned, embarks on some terrifying means towards that end.

"Jessica Blackwood is trying to make her architectural design firm a success, and she's off to a great start, thanks to a recommendation that leads to the job of the century-designing a house for a wealthy but reclusive bachelor. The only problem? Jessica's new client happens to be her old high school nemesis. The bigger problem? He's no longer the cocky boy who once tormented her, and suddenly she finds herself intrigued by her new client. Christopher...

Enchanting Regency-era gothic romance intertwined with inspiration from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. England, 1815. Travel writer Amelia Balfour's dream of touring Egypt is halted when she receives news of a revolutionary new surgery for her grotesquely disfigured brother, Colin. This could change everything, and it does,in the worst possible way. Surgeon Graham Lambert has suspicions about the doctor he's gone into practice with, but he can't stop...

Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to play in. From his small apartment in southern California he creates Trace Italian. Lance and Carrie are high school students, explorers of the Trace. When they take their play into the real world, disaster strikes, and Sean is called to account for it. He is pulled back through time, tunneling toward the moment of his own self-inflicted departure...

Scarred from a childhood bear attack, Clara faces tough choices when she considers her growing feelings for a student teacher from New York just as her longtime boyfriend proposes a forever commitment.

As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on. --Provided by publisher.

Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Aubrey, a scarred loner, escapes at will into other worlds of his making but suddenly, the world where a popular girl is his long-term girlfriend is intersecting reality in startling ways.

Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother.

Losing her father in a school fire that disfigures her face, Sicily is raised by a dynamic aunt who urges her to pursue a normal life, an effort that is influenced by her fiancé, a terrible drunken revelation and an opportunity for a risky full-face transplant.