Fiction | Fiction
Jul.09.2008
It’s often difficult for me to characterize my books, and Before the Storm is no exception. It’s part suspense, part mystery, and one hundred percent family drama. It’s about how far family members will go to protect one another. It’s about the choices people make that come back to haunt them. And...
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Jul.09.2008
It's 1843, San Antonio, the Republic of Texas. Mexican-born Aurelia Ruiz finds that she may have the power to heal-as well as to curse. She definitely has the power to attract men. Willie Barnett, a young Texas ranger, becomes infatuated with her. Her father sells her to him but insists on a...
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Jul.09.2008
Ellie Holmgren is no stranger to tragedy. Her only child, eight-year-old Jamie, died during a tonsillectomy, and while Ellie was trying to find a way to dig herself out of her profound grief, her husband divorced her. And now her sister, Alice, has called to tell her that Morty, Alice's husband,...
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Jul.09.2008
Twenty-eight-year-old Lela has no memory of her horrific childhood. She doesn’t remember her murdered mother, doesn’t even remember that she once had a sister named Jolene who had tried to save Lela from their sexually abusive father. That is until one day when a strange man appears bringing with...
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Jul.07.2008
The year is 1763 and the British have defeated the French, putting an end to the intercontinental war that had ravaged the American Colonies for seven long years.
In the highlands of Scotland, Maggie Duncan is desperate to alter the course of her lonely, hardscrabble life. In search of a new...
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Jul.06.2008
What if you got away from it all—and then it all got away from you?
When her husband gets a new job, Marissa Price leaves the island of Manhattan for the island of Hawaii. Paradise seems like the perfect place to find herself, save her marriage, and reconnect with her daughter. But Marissa...
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Jul.06.2008
Living simply isn't simple.
Deidre McIntosh became famous teaching women to live simply, and simply live -- ironic for a woman who thrives on the chaos of a television career, and shares a home with her best friend, the one man she can count on-who happens to be gay.
But when her Seattle...
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Jul.06.2008
This author taught at my college, Eastern Washington University, and this is her latest novel. Her other bestseller is 'Stones in the River.'
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Jul.03.2008
Echoes of a strange past haunted Roisin. She dimly knew her destiny lay far beyond the South Downs rectory where she had been so strictly reared. Manoeuvred into an uninspiring marriage, she escaped to make her own way in a society overshadowed by the Napoleonic Wars where values were a stark...
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Jun.29.2008
"All that time, life kept putting its face around the door, but never came into the room."
When Angel learnt her days were numbered, she found it impossible to confide in her husband, Jude. Immersed in the precarious expansion of his business, he little suspected the true cause of her...
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