Synopsis: Cassie Beaumont is, at the age of thirty-four, an accomplished woman. A biochemist for a plastics company, she has achieved professional success, but her personal life has not kept…
Synopsis: Mary Gooch is forty-three years old, stands five feet, six inches tall, and weighs more than three hundred pounds. For most of her life, save one too-brief interval, she…
Synopsis: Frankie Ross is fourteen years old and World War I is about to erupt when the story opens in 1916. Her father recently attempted to take his own life,…
Synopsis: Anna Quindlen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Object Lessons, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, among others. Every Last One not only matches, but exceeds the quality…
Synopsis: Todd was born to George and Maryann McCray late in their lives, after they thought their child-bearing years were behind them. Now 20 years old, Todd lives with them…
Synopsis: In 1979, five toddlers ranging in age from two to four years, were abandoned aboard a luxury yacht named “For Tuna” on the coast of Puerto Rico. The vessel…
Synopsis: Cora Crowder isn’t really feeling the Christmas spirit. The child of two alcoholics, Cora grew up in an abusive environment which she survived by immersing herself in her studies.…
Synopsis: Two photographs, and a pea coat passed from her grandfather to her father. That’s all Elise has. In one of the photographs, taken at home, she is a baby…
Synopsis: Things are not working out the way Jesse Barlow planned. He grew up “the son of a preacher man” — that Dusty Springfield recording was the author’s inspiration for…
Synopsis: Raleigh Harmon, F.B.I. agent, has just survived a disciplinary transfer to the Bureau’s Seattle, Washington field office. Happily back home in Richmond, Virginia, she is willing to suffer the…
Synopsis: Kat Maguire is having a very bad day. She is late for work, where she is scheduled to make a presentation to an important client. It’s raining, and she…
Synopsis: There is nothing more disconcerting than the feeling that someone is watching you. Nothing will bring a chill up your spine faster than the sense that someone is lurking…
Synopsis: Etan Phillips, owner of Phillips Advertising, survived a disastrous engagement and the worst kind of betrayal. Although it has been five years since he extricated himself from his relationship…
Synopsis: Santiago is an Andalusian boy who spent 16 years in seminary before earning his father’s blessing to become a shepherd so that he could travel. As he sets out,…
Synopsis: Esther Lange told Linus Hahn that she was sure. In reality, she was anything but sure that she wanted to succumb to his charms just for one night before…
Synopsis: Dina Kucera is a stand-up comic. Reading a synopsis of her memoir, Everything I Never Wanted to Be, might make you wonder what she could possibly find funny about…
Synopsis: To say that Nick O’Reilly is a “Type A” personality does not adequately describe him. Nick is, like so many attorneys practicing in large cities with prestigious law firms,…
Synopsis: It is October 1964. Lyndon Johnson is completing the late John F. Kennedy’s term in office and running for re-election against Senator Barry Goldwater. John, Paul, George, and Ringo…
Synopsis: Stephanie Vendergrift left her disapproving parents and friends, as well as her job as a salesperson in the men’s suits department of the local Macy’s store back home in…
Synopsis: Rose is a border collie/shepherd mix who has resided for the past six years with Sam on his large farm. Sam raises sheep, cattle, goats, and even has an…