Samantha Laschen, a doctor specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex Coast with her small daughter, Elsie, to escape the problems of her London life, or so she thinks. Fiona McKenzie barely survived the savage, murderous attack which left her parents dead. Now she is in need of sanctuary and the police see Sam as the ideal person to offer her a safe house. Already overburdened with the demands of a new job and her mercurial lover Danny, Sam reluctantly agrees to take her in. But as Fiona makes her way into the hearts of her hosts, Sam discovers that the risks she has foreseen are nothing compared to the terrifying danger she actually faces.

The fifty-something pharmacy manager at the Food Go in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ruthie Kantor Morris enjoys nothing better than dishing dirt with her waitress friend Denise. But sometimes the gossip turns grim...... Harry Stokes is their latest favourite scandal. The elderly gentleman has been coming to Ruthie for male potency hormones ever since his recent marriage to a woman a fraction of his age. But when the old swinger dies abruptly - a victim of lethally misused medicine - his grumbling grown kids point their accusing fingers at the baby bride. Ruthie, however, has her doubts. And a second murder much too close for comfort convinces the inquisitive pharmacist to look for a fatal family secret hidden somewhere in her prescription records.

The passion to create life: The In-Vitro Fertilization unit of the Women's Clinic, Massachusetts. An establishment at the cutting edge of new reproductive technologies. The power to destroy it: But the clinic is just the tip of a global network. Within its stark walls lurks a chilling conspiracy. Its business - control over life. Its reward - not babies, but dollars. Billions of dollars.....

At the monastery in Shrewsbury in 1138, the gardens are flourishing under the expert tending of Brother Cadfael. His workshop boasts all sort of medication for every kind of ailment. Then one Gervase Bonel, who had planned to leave his valuable manor house to the Abbey in exchange for a house run by the monks where his comfort will be guaranteed for life, is poisoned with Cadfael's own concoction intended for aching joints. As the monk investigates he finds a web of family intrigue, where suspicion has fallen on someone he is certain is innocent.

Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station. Once aboard the space station, however, things start to go terribly wrong. A culture of single-celled organisms known as Archaeons, gathered from the deep sea, is to be monitored in the microgravity of space. The true and lethal nature of this experiment has not been revealed to NASA. In space, the cells rapidly multiply and soon begin to infect the crew -- with agonizing and deadly results. A recovery attempt ends in catastrophe; the NASA shuttle crashes, and the space station is left dangerously crippled. Emma struggles to contain the deadly microbe, while back home, Jack and NASA work against the clock to retrieve Emma from space. But there will be no rescue. The contagion now threatens Earth's population as well, and the astronauts are left stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station -- where they are dying one by one...

Still practising in Tannochbrae, Finlay's reputation has spread throughout the West of Scotland. But fame and reputation bring their own problems, especially when a new hotel opens nearby and Finlay is beset with the many ailments of its wealthy residents. And then with the sudden illness of Dr Cameron and the arrival of Grace Macfarlane, Finlay's old love, matters become even more complicated, culminating in a vicious and libellous attack on him by the local newspaper.

After losing his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, a giant conglomerate, and then his wife and two daughters in an airline tragedy, Dr John Stapleton's life is reduced to Ashes. He re-trains in forensic pathology and moves to the cold, indifferent, concrete maze of New York. There Stapleton believes himself past caring - yet his suspicions are aroused as virulent and lethal illnesses begin to strike the young, the old and the virulent regardless.

Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery, an accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical centre violating the Hippocratic Oath? Only one doctor is willing to push his way through the mysterious maze of hidden medical data and shocking secrets to learn the truth.

Dr Mike Richmond has just joined Connecticut's most prestigious medical practice. For the brilliant young surgeon, it is a career-making opportunity. But it comes with a chilling price. It begins with a critical error in judgment that puts a woman's life at grave risk. Then a patient inexplicably dies. As more and more people meet suspicious deaths - and Mike is blamed - he realises he's a crucial link in a diabolical conspiracy that runs deeper than he could ever imagine.....

Jon, Rick and Jen share takeaway food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A young doctor with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life spiralling way out of control.