Traveling to Idaho to look at rare first-edition books, private investigator Cliff Janeway is disturbed by a horse owner's untimely death, a case that brings Janeway to the California Races at Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita Park.

Documenting her pregnancy in a journal, Caroline discovers that her baby is in danger at the start of her third trimester, while her husband, a prosecutor, gets caught up in a case involving the murder of a pregnant woman.

A mathematician obsessed with the work of Nicola Tesla, Jack Wilson plans to use the inventor's secret notebooks in which he claimed to have discovered a diabolical weapon to create his own weapon to destroy the technology of Western civilization.

"The marriage of a seemingly perfect couple dissolves into a complicated dance of affairs, lovers, and admirers"--Provided by the publisher.

Two decades after taking part in a childhood prank with devastating consequences, two cousins are reunited at a remote medieval castle in Eastern Europe, where they are cut off from the outside world and doomed to reenact the horrific event from their past.