ADAM DAVIES

Against his better judgment, Jack succumbs to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Should he walk away and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember?

Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mothers guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffers from locked-in syndrome, a condition that leaves him fully intact mentally but unable to speak or move, save for blinking his eye. Jacks do-gooder girlfriend believes that this trip is a chance for Jack to achieve peace with his family. But Jacks no fool: He knows betterand he knows theres a lot his girlfriend doesnt realize about the Tennant family. She doesnt know about Jacks alcoholic brother, Pressman. And she doesnt know the truth about his brother Dex, who drowned when Jack was very youngand about whom his parents have never said a word. With his family teetering on the brink, Jack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to make a decision hes avoided for years. Should he walk away from his past and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember? Jack has a lot of choices to makeand fast. If he doesnt, he runs the risk of losing everything, including the woman he loves. Adam Davies has a delicious command of the English language.St. Petersburg Times

A dazzling and funny romantic comedy from Adam Davies, the author of The Frog King and Goodbye LemonThe once-rising star Otto Starks is a "pulse"a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide.Now, demoted and dangerously in debt to a loan shark, all Otto has left is Charlie Izzo, the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is also the Rat Burglars zealous advocate. After he becomes the prime suspect in a robbery and Charlie disappears, Otto realizes that the Rat Burglar has stolen much more from him than art. To get it back he must break the law he has devoted his life to upholding.Mine All Mine is a nail-biting thriller about deception, betrayal, and ownershipin art and in love.

Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistants salary "living").His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not).His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?).His publishing job is entry level (with no exit in sight).BUT...Harry Driscoll has a dream (if you call an unfinished manuscript hidden in the closet a "dream").Harry Driscoll has a girl (although intercourse is out of the question).Harry Driscoll even has feelings. (He asked this girl, one day in the park, to be in his life forever--and meant it!)And the other girls? Theyre not the problem. (The problem is, Harry Driscoll cannot allow himself to say the word "love.")