Sister Agatha is an extern nun -- the link between the cloistered sisters and the community -- for the Our Lady of Hope monastery in the small town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. Using the skills she dev
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time — that’s all it took to ruin Sydney Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of the brutal abduction of a 13-year-old girl, Ted is now
A strong-willed beauty finds herself in the arms of a handsome drifter from her past, in this second book in the sizzling series set in the Old West, from USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins.
Every child prodigy grows up eventually. For the Promise sisters, escaping their mother’s narcissism and the notoriety that came with her bestselling book hasn’t been easy. Minerva Promise claimed tha
A year ago the Western Development Corporation of Chicago had decided they wanted Jim Bannister’s one-man horse ranch to piece out a land title, but he wasn’t selling. So the syndicate decided to make
"Rachel Stanhope tries to see the good in everyone. But Josh Reegan tests even her good graces when they meet outside her Arlington, Virginia, dance studio in 1951. He's attractive, yet his cynicism a
In Cedar Chapel, where Victoria Storm runs a senior boardinghouse, things have been quiet. That is, until she enters the local pet store and finds Clyde Foster, the owner, dead, and his parrot, Watzit
Panhandle Preston and his son Quent owned a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Since it was on the right of way of the proposed Union Pacific railway, it was a prized piece of property and coveted by many a man
Part Mary Karr and part Rachel Carson, The Orchard is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of
After three days of riding across prairies, Johnnie Cameron was happy to smell the freshness of the north New Mexico mountains. As he and his horse, Blazer, stopped at a stream to refresh themselves,
"His hand is growing cold, still she holds it." The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely
Hardscrabble could be any typical New England village. A place filled with common people living uncommon lives. The best of a disappearing breed called Yankees -- resolute, resilient, and resourceful
In this deeply personal and controversial memoir, Father Albert Cutie tells about the devastating struggle between upholding his sacred promises as a priest and falling in love. Already conflicted by
Left on an Alabama doorstep as an infant, Gracie Lynne Calloway discovers on her 25th birthday that she is the kidnapped daughter of a late New England financier and heiress to his fortune, a revelati
Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of the city's most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society.
Arriving at homespun Stick City, con man extraordinaire and sometime gentleman James Fox, alias James Todd, embarks on the most dangerous swindle of his career. It seems easy enough for a man of his
Bill Dorn is on the trail of Mike Bundy, his former associate who has swindled Dorn and several of his friends in a fraudulent oil scheme. He's incensed, in part because he was robbed, but mostly bec
In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, consumed by grief over the death of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love.Against scenes of uni
The author of The Last Beach Bungalow describes the grief of a woman, Lauren, who lost everything, including her husband, in a wildfire at their Santa Barbara avocado farm, and her struggle to put her
The people of the Seco Range are shocked when handsome Kurt Quillan turns twenty -- and becomes a hardened killer with seven notches on his gun. Though he shoots in self-defense, he seems never to ha
Born of an ancient family of clairvoyants, Marley Millet finds her psychic gift is both unsettling and incredibly dangerous. She never wants to "travel" again -- but the choice is not hers to make. A
It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, learns that he is actually a Jew a
Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no advantages beyond his intelligence and athletic ability. Thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr, a professor at Caldwell College, Darrow became a g
Marcus Sherbrook is an almost perfect gentleman -- reliable, trustworthy and dignified. The one blight on his reputation is the rebellion of Isabel Dunham, who at the age of seventeen, defied his gua
Nothing ever happens in Eudora and that's the way this small town, surrounded by oil, wheat and cattle, likes it. Eudorans are allergic to innovation. But when a former resident publishes a novel wit
The summer after Abby Hansen's first year of college -- and several months after doctors find a malignant tumor in her mother Helen's brain -- she and her parents drive to northern New Hampshire to s
From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's authentic. Dr. Ali send
Georgia "Peachy" Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, and raising two boys in the same small town where she grew up. But just as her life s
Thirteen-year-old Jazmin, her ex-Special Ops uncle Charlie, and former FBI agent Lisa are reunited in the second of the Voice of God series to stop an assassin driven to murder members of a mega-chur
Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father, and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off, Claire has carved out a practical existence as a comme
Barry Unsworth has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, an historical thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes
Roche Savage is a dedicated, talented psychiatrist with a life-shattering secret; his sexuality is over-the-top. He's always avoided gentle, reserved women because he can't trust himself not to frigh
