"Tick and Polly have never met their parents before. They live in the same house with them, they dream about them every night, they share the same flesh and blood, yet for some reason their parents have never found the time to visit them even once since they were born. Living in a dark corner of their parents' vast crumbling mansion, the children long for the day when they will finally be held in their mother's loving arms for the first time ... But...

Hold tight: Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent. Long lost: Myron Bolitar hasn't heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard....

"After twenty years of exile, Nurea Hazan returns to her hometown to meet her mother and sister. In her childhood home, another family lives. Nobody recognizes her. Furthermore, she finds that the body of a girl, Nuria Hazan, was found twenty years earlier, On the day of her departure. The world has undergone a profound change, genetic disruption of people's reproductive ability. Only a few men and women are fertile. People are having children who...