Deanna Madden: 7 books

When a mutated HIV virus causes a global epidemic, one city in the American Southwest builds a wall that divides the city into two zones, separating the infected from the uninfected. As the epidemic continues to spread, unrest grows in the South Zone, where the infected are quarantined. Now in the...

1888, Whitechapel. A woman wakes in a dark alley where a murder has just taken place. She can’t remember her name or how she got there. Only later does she learn the man in the alley with her was Jack the Ripper. Soon she realizes she has been thrust more than a century into the past. And...

After her husband purchases a country house, a woman feels exiled and lonely. Briarwood is beautiful with its blooming gardens, but something ominous lurks there. By day she paints a sunken pool and a cherub while she waits for her husband’s weekend visits. Her only companion is an elderly housekeeper...

Helena Landless and her twin brother Neville travel from Ceylon to England after the death of their stepfather. In the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham they become entangled in the mysterious disappearance of young Edwin Drood one stormy night. Did hot-headed Neville murder him in a fit of temper,...

429 B.C. After losing her family to the plague that strikes Athens in the second year of its war with Sparta, fifteen-year-old Rhea goes to live with her aunt and uncle. But when she fails to measure up to her aunt’s expectations, she finds herself facing an arranged marriage to a cruel man more...

Peter Hoenig, an anthropology graduate student from Boston, is having doubts about his future, both the field he has chosen and the woman to whom he is engaged. He is not even enthused about his research trip to five cultural sanctuaries, or Forbidden Places, to observe traditional wedding ceremonies. On...

The box was made of a metal like aluminum and sealed with heavy tape. In sunlight it had a pearlescent quality that reminded her of an abalone shell. Below the tape were fine markings that almost looked like words but not in any language that she recognized. When her grandfather dies, 19-year-old...