Synopsis: Tom Violet and his wife, Anna, want to have another child. After all, their little Allie is seven years old already and there will be a wide enough age…
Synopsis: Babe, Grace, and Millie have been friends since they met in kindergarten. The story begins in 1941 and World War II has just begun. Babe is from below Sixth…
Synopsis: Nia and Danielle met and became friends in 1976 when Mia’s parents forced her to transfer from the public school she loved to a private all-girls’ Catholic high school.…
Synopsis: Lauren Mahdian does not remember the details of that horrible summer night in 1986 when she was just eight years old, beyond the fact that she slept in the…
Synopsis: Dwight Arno was an attorney with a wife and young son until he got behind the wheel of a car after drinking. He struck and killed one of his…
Synopsis: It was 1860 and according to that year’s census, there were more than four million slaves in the United States. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln would issue…
Synopsis: David Gurney is a retired New York City homicide detective who has moved upstate with his wife Madeleine to a fifty-acre country paradise complete with surrounding woods, a pond,…
Synopsis: Edna Leigh Casey prefers to be known as simply “Casey.” Named for a great-aunt, Casey is, at twenty-six, too young to be known as Edna. She is also ten…
Emily Chenoweth is my special guest. She is the author of Hello Goodbye, her first novel. Hello Goodbye is a poignant look at a week in the life of eighteen-year-old…
Synopsis: Lenora Stone is a thirty-eight-year-old photographer who has worked for Baltimore Scene, a magazine about local events and personalities, for the past ten years. Her demanding boss, Dawna, is…
Synopsis: Jedidiah Rogers is the master of Moss Grove, a sprawling plantation north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a kind, yet pragmatic man who has always treated his slaves…
Synopsis: Ellie and John became friends when she was just eight years old. Two years older, John was raised by Maidy and Paud after the deaths of his own parents.…
Synopsis: Frances traveled from her Georgia home to Miami to attend the wedding of a friend. After graduating from college, Frances had taken a job as a bank teller and…
Synopsis: Expiation: 1. Definition [noun] compensation for a wrong; to make amends or reparation for (wrongdoing or guilt); atone for; satisfaction 2. To pay the penalty of: Suffer for; the…
Synopsis: Isolde “Izzy” Brilliant’s thirty-ninth birthday is rapidly approaching. A former hedge fund manager with an MBA, she was laid off, along with many colleagues, but provided a generous severance…
Author Hugh Aaron’s collection of short stories certainly lives up to its name: The included works were drafted over a sixty-six-year time span, the earliest dating back to when he…
Synopsis: Cascom Mountain in New Hampshire has always figured prominently in Mary Hall’s life. She spent summers there in the home that belonged to her parents, not far from the…
Synopsis: Katherine did not know Frederick very long before marrying him, and much of their courtship was conducted through letters exchanged while he was serving in the military during World…
Synopsis: Christine Lucas wakes up each morning confused. She believes that she is a young woman in her twenties. She looks around her bedroom and it does not seem familiar,…
Synopsis: Cathryn (“Cate”) Mahon Cooper has had a series of very bad days. A few days ago, Cate’s husband of twenty-six years, Addison, took his own life. At his funeral,…