"A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope. Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea's husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing...

Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson wins a camera in a lottery and finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time.

Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in a rural community. Pine Ridge is idyllic; the surrounding forests are beautiful and the locals welcoming. Mostly. But Alex finds that she may have disturbed barely hidden secrets in her new home. As a chain of bizarre events is set off, events eerily familiar to those who have lived there for years,...

A follow-up to Some Kind of Peace finds psychologist Siri Bergman organizing a support group for victims of domestic abuse against a backdrop of a brutal beating murder for which the only witness is a traumatized 5-year-old girl.

A woman on the run . . .The terrified eyes in the middle of the highway belonged to a woman--battered, bruised, and barely conscious. Nick Red Shield swerved his pickup and empty horse trailer to avoid her, but neither he nor the mysterious Lauren Davis could avoid the collision of their lives . . . though Nick's loner instincts kick into high gear, Lauren's vulnerability tugs at him in ways he'd thought long since shut down. More comfortable with...

An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.

After a gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband will kill her, Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape, following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets.

A young woman unknowingly participates in an intervention staged by her two best friends who are trying to help her escape an abusive relationship.

"In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer: 'Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways.' That same spring Janine was struggling to leave her marriage, to a handsome and successful man--a marriage in which she felt afraid, controlled, inadequate, and trapped. Ten weeks later, Janine had left her marriage when she learned...

"Based on a true story, Emilie would create history, amending U.S. laws applying to victims of domestic abuse and creating today's definition of 'duress.' In the 1950's, Emilie, a private and reserved woman, would end up in an epic battle against the U.S. Government and the Office of the U.S. Attorney General. She was told by her attorney that no one had ever successfully won such a case. The odds were against her. For five long years, she fought...