Beaten and left with a half-paralyzed face, Evie Wilson becomes a recluse, interacting with the outside world exclusively through the Internet. But even after her face is restored by surgery, Evie must still maintain her role as the shopkeeper of Shadowland, a website that sells faces and bodies to users interested in building avatars. However, when her test subjects for the avatar designs start turning up dead, Evie turns to homicide detective Noah...

In all his years in the Chicago fire department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday AHS never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires, devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem, his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined.

Gwyn Weaver is as resilient as anyone could be. Having survived an attempted murder, she has rebuilt her life and reclaimed her dignity and strength. She's always known about her feelings for defence attorney Thomas Thorne, but as her friend and a colleague there could be no chance of anything more ... or could there? Thorne has known violence and pain all his life. He's overcome the hardships thanks to his own steel, and the love of his loyal friends....

"Child psychologist Meredith Fallon knows she shouldn't hold out hope for Adam Kimble. After a few unforgettable hours spent together, the seasoned homicide detective has spent the last year going out of his way to avoid her. But when Meredith is the target of a botched hit in downtown Cincinnati, he explodes back into her life. Adam can't unsee the horrors that come with his job: the victims he couldn't save; the monsters who still walk free. But...