Synopsis: Tess Monaghan’s life — like the recessed Baltimore of the late 1990’s in which she lives — is stagnant. On hold. In her late 20’s, her career as a…
Synopsis: Alice Humphrey really needs a job. So when she attends a gallery opening and is approached by Drew Campbell about serving as the manager of a new gallery, she…
Synopsis: Phoebe Hall has survived the break-up of her long-term relationship and being falsely accused of plagiarizing her most recent book, a celebrity biography that, like her previous work, hit…
Synopsis: Nicole-Marie Handy has been fascinated by the French language and anything having to do with France her entire life. As a child, she was enchanted by the French dictionary…
Synopsis: Logan Pyle’s life is falling apart. It has been just four months since his father, Gus, died after an agonizing four-year illness. Bennie, Logan’s stepmother, has moved out of…
Synopsis: Claire Silver is ambitious, driven, and idealistic. She has her dream job. But she’s not sure that she wants it any longer because her boss, legendary Hollywood producer Michael…
Synopsis: It is the summer of 2002, and the world is a far different place than it was just one year prior. The events of September 11, 2011, impacted everyone,…
Synopsis: The body of a soldier killed during World War I has just been discovered. At the time of his death, he was carrying with him two letters, written by…
Synopsis: At thirty-three years of age, magazine writer Anne Blythe (her mother was so obsessed with Anne of Green Gables that her brother is named Gilbert) always seems to pick…
Synopsis: It is a dark and stormy night at Sterne, the beloved family home of Charlotte Torrington Swift and her children, Clovis, Emerald, and Imogen, better known as Smudge. After…
Synopsis: Something terrible happened in the woods on that day so long ago. Was it what the children said happened . . . or something else? The man who sometimes…
Synopsis: Grace is at her son, Adam’s, school for sports day. Nearly all of the children are outdoors when suddenly the building erupts in fire. As Grace looks around for…
Synopsis: Héctor has longed dreamed of a better life for himself, his wife Lilia, and their infant daughter, Alejandra. He has been making plans for some time to cross the…
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: Rosa Diaz knew, as a child growing up in California, that her family held a long-standing grudge against the Jorgenson family, Norwegians who now owned the land that had…
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: Maggie Lewis is sixty-five years old and has just retired after a forty-year career as an elementary school librarian. She has come to Vashon Island near Seattle, accessible only…
Synopsis: Natalie was just twenty years old when she was approached by Francois on a Paris street. From that conversation, their relationship bloomed into two years of living together, followed…
Synopsis: Josh Lansky is a screenwriter with a serious case of writer’s block. Although he optioned one script a few years ago, netting enough capital to flee New York City…
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…