Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.

Bound by the loss of their mother, sisters Myla and Pru Wolfe become the subjects of family friend and photographer Ruth Handel, a nude child photographer who later becomes the subject of a shattering controversy.

With the help of her drama professor best friend and a campus cop who may be a new romantic interest, behavioral psychology professor Ronnie Raven must find the killer of an unpopular fellow professor to prevent the crime from being pinned on herself.

When two of the residents at a county college's single-parent dormitory die of poisoning, professor Maggie Summer finds a host of suspects, including a professor hired for political reasons and the college's reputation-driven president.

A freshman in college, Mallory is reeling from her mother's recent death. She sees the woman for the first time at the university's gym, immediately entranced; before long, they begin sleeping together in secret. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof: the woman is everything Mallory wants... and wants to be. Mallory retreats from the rest of the world, solidifying a sense of aloneness that has both haunted and soothed her since childhood...

Sheriff Devin MacKade gets another chance with the woman he has loved for years, Cassie Connor, and Shane MacKade unexpectedly becomes a one-woman man when he meets shy academic Rebecca McKnight.

Every day of her life Julia Rich lives with the memory of a horrible accident she caused long ago. In the years since, she has tried to hide her guilt in the quiet routine of teaching at a small South Carolina college, avoiding close relationships with family and would-be friends. But one day a phone call from Carmen, a niece she has never met, disrupts her carefully controlled world. Carmen is a study in contrasts--comical yet wise, sunny yet contemplative,...