Some family secrets are written in blood. A fairytale marriage. A wealthy family. A strange mother-in-law. Maybe it was always going to end in murder. Effie Watson thought she had it made when she married Hugo Fincham. He was rich and good-looking with an exclusive central London home. But marriage to Hugo has drawn her […]

Briar Harrow has been measured, tested, and found wanting. At fifteen she fails the rite that sorts Caldreth’s children into storm-callers and healers, and the village delivers its verdict kindly, which is worse. Her mother has taught her to hide what her face does. Her father needs her to marry into a rival branch of […]

What if your marriage doesn’t need a complete overhaul, just more Loving Moments? You still love each other. You share a home, maybe raise a family together, but somewhere between the bills, the schedules, and the endless to-do lists, the closeness and connection have faded. Your conversations became practical instead of personal, affection became less […]

“Only one gets away… So get away from me. Get away!” Lonesome, enormous place, the Drammond House has a way of picking and choosing, taking what it wants. Marianne, Lucy, Paul, Troy, his enthusiastic journalist, Jillian, who knows all about it, Joseph, Suzuki and McNeal, that whole lot… But Raymond Byrd finds a way out. […]

A missed opportunity five years ago makes for an unexpected encounter now between two people meant for each other, but who square off in a very public battle of wills in the small town of Love You, Maine, where every day is Valentine’s Day. Can love conquer all in a town steeped in it? Kell […]

What really happened during the extraordinary 48 hours when Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev came face-to-face at the height of the Cold War, with the world standing on the brink of nuclear showdown? In October 1986, as tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed the world to a dangerous cliff, President Ronald […]

All I want for Christmas is a job! (Okay, sure, also some snow, a chance to finish the book I’ve been writing, and maybe a decent winter coat?) Turns out that being Maddie Foster, heiress to the Foster Christmas Figurine fortune isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially after my stepmom takes my inheritance […]