Synopsis: Catherine O’Brien and her partner, Louise, are homicide detectives with the St. Paul, Minnesota police department. As the story begins, Nathan Stanley has been found murdered on the front…
Synopsis: Gwen Swan was a rodeo queen, sitting glamorously in the saddle as she waved to the crowds. She still rides, but its on the Swan family ranch that she…
Synopsis: Eleanor “Nell” Margaret Slattery survives the crash of a 757 airliner over Iowa. In fact, she is one of only two survivors, the other being Anderson Carroll, a well-known…
Synopsis: The Camerons have not gathered together for twelve years — not since the fateful weekend that was supposed to be a relaxing getaway at Olivia and Joel’s new country…
I am delighted to welcome author Valerie Stocking to Colloquium! Valerie details the frustrating and harrowing saga of getting her first novel published! It is a cautionary tale for all…
Synopsis: Historian Eloise Kelly has come to England to work on her doctoral thesis, met Colin, and has taken up residence with him in his ancestral home where a film…
Synopsis: Luke Warren was driving his seventeen-year-old daughter, Cara, home from a party when he swerved to avoid striking a deer and lost control of his vehicle. Cara awakens to…
Margaret Norton is my special guest! She is the author of When Ties Break: A Memoir About How to Thrive After Loss, her story of splintered relationships with her family…
It is my pleasure to welcome author Spencer Seidel back to Colloquium today. Spencer’s first novel, Dead of Wynter, a tautly constructed mystery thriller that keeps readers guessing about the…
Synopsis: Katie Sandford has dreamed for years of working as a writer for The Line, a prestigious music magazine, but when she finally lands an interview, she shows up still…
Synopsis: Meredith, along with her two older sisters, Claudia and Ava, has not visited her childhood home, Aurelia (latin for “Golden”), in over a decade. A scuptor, Meredith resides in…
Synopsis: France is in Germany’s grip, but Bernard Rousseau and his fellow members of the Resistance are determined to see France freed from Nazi control and restored to its pre-World…
Synopsis: Julia Lapp is twenty-one years old and looking forward to her November marriage to Paul Fisher, whom she has loved practically all of her life. Julia is confident of…
Synopsis: Sarah Anderson loves her two young children, but feels much of the time like she has lost herself. She hesitates to tell people that she is a stay-at-home mother…
Synopsis: Leah Tyler has an excellent future, full of possibilities. An accomplished soccer player — the best on her high school team — she is poised to earn a college…
Synopsis: Jared Roberts has plenty of reasons to be angry. It has been nearly a year since his father, Joe, simply vanished after being fired from him job at Stone…
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…
Today it is my great pleasure to welcome author Linda Gray Sexton back to Colloquium. I urge you to read Linda’s guest post, The Business of Writing Memoir in which…
If you think the Merriam-Webster dictionary has it all covered, think again. Author Anna Lefler provides definitions for many of the words not included in standard dictionaries in her new…
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…