Helen Plum Library

From LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat comes a subversive speculative thriller about a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood--joy and dread, longing and suffocation--in blazing, arresting prose

Maria and William seem to have it all. Two happy children. A beautiful house. A thriving business. But when their home is invaded by David, an ex-employee with a score to settle, the couple face a terrifying fight to survive. During the course of one hellish night, David picks apart their carefully constructed life. Secrets are unearthed, truths revealed. And soon David begins to wonder if he's bitten off more than he can chew - because he's discovering...

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk...

Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her children and defeat the villains

Kimber Hanson arrives home to find the locks have been changed, and a stranger living in her house. He claims to be leasing the property-- and has paperwork to prove it. Then he reveals that he has a connection to Kimber's distant past, and dark secrets she'd long ago left behind about the death of her sister. This trespasser isn't after her money or her charming Craftsman bungalow. He wants to move into her carefully orchestrated life-- and destroy...

Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house

"Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond...

"While on vacation, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to prevent the apocalypse." --