Against her boyfriend’s advice, a college student takes in a new roommate, a seemingly charming man who turns out to be an escaped convict.

After the sudden death of her husband, a woman discovers that he had another family, whose members are hell-bent on moving in with her.

In 79 A.D., on the eve of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii, a Celtic gladiator falls in love with the daughter of a rich entrepreneur, who is desired by a vile Roman senator.

On the day her mother disappears, a New York teenager learns that she belongs to a thousand-year-old brotherhood of demon hunters.