A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are confined to their homes. Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city's Upper West Side. During the plodding solitude of the lockdown, he observes several strangers in their nearby apartments. As he watches them struggle to survive a world at risk of extinction, he wonders about their lives--where they're from, what they value, how they're coping with a deadly...

"Gazing out his picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, former Wall Street veteran Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park, as if a lonely person is signaling him. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is leads him on a quest that will tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Ridley leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the femme fatale and descends...

"There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Künstler,...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...