The Green Room

Salome sells out arenas on a persona her parents built and songs other people wrote. Sally Mercer would rather be writing her own. Victor Kessler, head of her security, believes the tabloids over his own eyes. Every night he tells her to call if she needs anything. Every night, after

Frankie Rinaldi knows what her father does for a living. She just doesn't ask. Novak Brannigan, an outsider with an old score to settle with Vincent Rinaldi, figures the boss's daughter is his way in. Until she puts a knee where it counts and walks off. He keeps

In this alternative-universe story, Frankie Rinaldi lost a bet, so she's spending her father's Halloween party in pink tulle, a plastic tiara, and her Docs. A man in a cheap mask finds her on the back stair. Then she learns his name: Novak Brannigan, son of the

Helen Pappas teaches Wuthering Heights to San Francisco undergrads who think Heathcliff is hot. She wrote her whole dissertation on why he isn't. Then Jake Collins, the boy next door her mother half-raised, kisses her in the family kitchen, then disappears for three weeks. He turns up at