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When laws cannot be settled in state or district courts, they go to the highest law of the land: The Supreme Court. There, nine Justices appointed to lifelong terms weigh in on matters that could affect the whole country. There have been many hotly debated cases over the years....

After the unexpected death of her young husband, Sadie wants nothing to do with people or modern society, ever again. She's done. Angry. Over it. So, she jumps, headfirst, into the seclusion of an island in Southeast Alaska, to be by herself and rebuild her life.

As Europe tore itself apart during the First World War, one woman danced and ignored the horror. At least until the truth was exposed. Mata Hari, famed dancer and courtesan, finds herself facing a death sentence for spying, but the British Secret Service makes her an officer she can't refuse. She can avoid a hangman's noose on the condition that she kills a German general. The problem for Mata is that the man in question is the man she loves.

In these six unforgettable tales, ordinary lives twist toward the extraordinary. A girl in the Arctic discovers a dangerous way to silence the stone figure haunting her home. A snowbound woman realizes too late the stranger upstairs is not who she believed. A lakeside summer friendship becomes a lifelong reckoning in the award-winning title story, The Plainness of My Fall. From magical realism to stark reality, J.G. Macdonald crafts worlds where the smallest choices lead to the largest consequences — and where endings are never quite what you expect.