Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real […]

Dr. Alexander Delaware, a child psychologist in Los Angeles, is called in to evaluate the case of a leukemia patient whose parents want to discontinue chemotherapy. When the boy disappears from the hospital and his parents are found dead, Delaware is drawn into a dangerous investigation involving alternative medicine, murder, and a mysterious cult. Delaware’s […]

Starting over is hard. Dodging an arsonist is worse. After being cut out of her father’s will, Meg Bramwell takes her brother’s offer to turn a run-down building into a library. With the help of Brian Hooper, a quiet librarian with unexpected warmth, Meg begins to build a new future, and fast-growing feelings. When a […]

Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwest’s most powerful corporate figures, are both facing crises of career and the heart. Fate has brought them together in Washington’s tiny Whispering Waters Cove, each eager to downsize and simplify. They’re both determined to avoid mergers of any kind—but when they meet, the attraction is […]

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications. The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has seven levels. Level 7 […]

Meet Harriet. But don’t be surprised if she isn’t interested in meeting you. Harriet has life all figured out, and she doesn’t hesitate to inform others of their shortcomings. Though her attempts to become president of the homeowner’s association failed, that doesn’t stop her from berating “off-leash-dog-man” or reporting the neighbor who had the audacity […]

“He turned the whole world from his door. She was the one person who would not stop knocking.” Thomas, the Duke of Aldermere, is held to be the coldest man in three counties. He has turned off half his household, closed his door to every caller, and let the village frighten its children with his […]