Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the nature of connection and relationships.

When Pascaline, a little bat, screams "Never, Not Ever" in response to going to school, something extraordinary happens, which changes her mind.

Created as an avenging golem in the image of a man's daughter who was killed by the Nazis, Vera, the Jew the Nazis cannot kill, is made for vengeance but begins to wonder if she's more than the wrath her creator infused within her.

Using puns and word play, adult animals say "I love you" to their young ones.

As his affectionate parents nourish and protect him, a plucky young puffin impatiently waits--but not without some reservations--for the day when he is "strong enough and tall enough and brave enough" to leave his nest on the rocky cliff-face and waddle off to the sea.

Baby's attention is fickle to all the wonderful things he encounters throughout the day, but his parents' love for him is constant.

An exuberant infant bounces through the day's activities, including a trip to the zoo.

When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.

Baby is King, and all his needs must be met by his subjects, otherwise know as his parents, but soon he will grow up, and who will rule them then?