Jodi Picoult Collection #3

Vanishing Acts Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fianc, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it. The Tenth CircleFourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's lifea straight-A student, a pretty, popular freshman in high school, a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her familyand herselfseems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter. Nineteen MinutesSterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happensuntil the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the states best witness, but she cant remember what happened before her very own eyesor can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show destroying the closest of friendships and families.