Jessica Taylor is walking her dog in the rain when she meets the man of her dreams-only to be struck by lightning moments later. When she wakes up in the hospital, the doctors insist she's someone else: Lauren Richards, wife and mother of four.

Former FBI agent E. L. Pender struggles through a morally ambiguous case involving imperiled women clients, a depraved perpetrator, and the unsettling price of justice.

John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...

"Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad ... A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people--Stephen calls them aspects--to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...

The author describes twenty-four distinct personalities and recounts memories of abuse that had been kept secret from him all his life. "West offers a poignant account of his efforts to understand the workings of his fragmented mind and to heal his damaged spirit ... "--Dust jcket.

Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his operation.