Synopsis: Some are smooth, obviously well cared-for, the pigmentation even, the manicure flawless. Others are calloused, wrinkled or show age spots, the nails cracked and splintered. Some hold modern electronic…
Synopsis: Kristin Rossum was an extremely intelligent, beautiful girl from an accomplished family for whom the future held literally endless possibilities. Today she is an inmate at the California Correctional…
Synopsis: Christine W. Hartman is the daughter of German immigrants, Hans and Irmgard, both of whom were highly intelligent, pragmatic, and products of their upbringings. When her parents divorced, it…
Synopsis: Ava is hanging on by a thread. Nothing seems to be going right at work lately and she is concerned about keeping her job as the producer of a…
Synopsis: Chase Daniels and Tia Madisson dated in high school, but their friendship was always most important to them and remained strong throughout their college years. Now they have both…
Synopsis: Rose Gerbaldi has a loving husband, grown children, and a couple of grandchildren. Still, she experiences periods of time when, as she describes it, she shuts down and needs…
Synopsis: Three women — Holly, Andrea, and Marissa — all stand at crossroads in their lives and relationships. Holly has long been a stay-at-home wife and mother, dabbling in various…
Synopsis: Robert Rave was just twenty-one years old when he struck out on his own in New York City after growing up in the Midwest, the youngest of three children…
Synopsis: George and Blythe Niles were raising their four daughters — Bea, Charlotte, Lilli, and Dori — just outside the small town of White Head on the Massachusetts coast in…
Synopsis: Weeble grew up in a home that she was ashamed to bring friends to after hearing her cousins complain that it always smelled of cat urine. Her motorcycle mechanic…
It is said that there’s nobody as smart as an old woman. The old woman at the center of author Ilene Beckerman’s delightful memoir, The Smartest Woman I Know, is…
Synopsis: Carlene Rivers has never been lucky. That’s what her brutally honest best friend, Becca, tells the gentleman selling raffle tickets at the Irish fair. But Carlene is undeterred, so…
Synopsis: Silvie Bates-McAllister has lived her life steeped in family history. For many years, she has served on the Board of Directors of Swithin, the private school that her grandfather…
Synopsis: Blair Van Howe and his partner, Danny Moran, were celebrating the biggest victory of their legal careers when both of their lives were forever changed. Danny had enjoyed a…
Synopsis: Dottie Morgan lost the Christmas spirit five years ago when her only son, Nelson, was killed in combat. She discontinued local traditions in the little town of Frost, such…
Synopsis: Dick Moonlight hasn’t had much business as a private investigator lately, so he’s been devoting his attention to his bar, Moonlight’s. That’s where he meets Peter Czech, a paraplegic…
Synopsis: Marianna Sommer reluctantly left her Indiana home to move to Montana with her family. She grew up believing that one day she would marry Aaron Zook, who has been…
Synopsis: Joy Powell is an out of control seventeen-year-old, severely trying the patience of her exasperated parents, Andrew, a pastor, and Gloria. After struggling with infertility, the Powells traveled to…
Synopsis: Donna was a mere three years old and her younger brother, Gary, was barely a year old when their divorced mother left her parents’ home to travel the country…
Synopsis: Sam August is about to graduate from college and he has a big dream. He has found an old, rundown theater in Plymouth, Massachusetts that is available for rent…