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
Melanie Trenholm’s maternity leave is coming to an end and she’s saddened to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work. Not to mention that she’s recently been woken by a phone call
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
Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children, no pedophile registry. H
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
Ellie Parrish has done a great job running away from a horrific past. Now, her goal -- unrealistic as it may be -- is to remove her brothers from servitude and take care of them herself. An accident
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.
Bella couldn't be happier that two of her long-feuding relatives have finally admitted their love for one another and are getting married. Their forties-style wedding is sure to be a night to remembe
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
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
"Carissa doesn't know who she is anymore. She and her husband, Richard, are recent empty nesters; Richard is spending more and more time at work counseling his volatile clients and less time at home w
When popular crooner Richie Rossiter dies, his longtime partner, Chrissie, is left bereft and angered that she never got Richie to divorce his first wife and marry her, providing security for her and
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
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
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
Struggling for survival in a Washington frontier community after buying their freedom, Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, operate a tailor shop and laundry while battling with their former owner
When Georgia announces her plan to marry a notorious family friend, her four best friends investigate his past only to find a slew of unanswered questions and surprises, while Georgia herself struggle
