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lynda-simmons's picture
Feb.05.2011
There are people who want nothing more than to forget about their family. All Ruby wants is to remember. Ruby Donaldson knows she's in trouble. She's been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's and she'll be damned if she won't straighten out her troubled family before she no longer knows how....
carol-berg's picture
Jan.13.2011
"Heed my last word, Destroyer. You will never be free of us. No matter in what realm we exist at the end of this day, you will not escape the destiny we designed for you. You are our instrument. Our Fourth. Every human soul - mundane or Dar’Nethi - will curse the day you first drew...
carol-berg's picture
Jan.13.2011
When betrayal devastates the Dar'Nethi plan to defeat the Lords of Zhev'Na without violence, the Prince of Avonar must face the possibility that someone close to him is responsible. As anger and frustration shake the fragile joining of his body and soul, the Lords of Zhev'Na bring war to the...
carol-berg's picture
Jan.13.2011
Seri has one errand to do as she waits for her beloved Prince of Avonar to regain his memory - to relay her brother's dying words to his son. But something is clearly wrong with the ten-year-old. Secretive, isolated, angry, the boy shows an inordinate terror of Seri's past connections with...
carol-berg's picture
Jan.13.2011
Sorcery and those who practice it have been exterminated from the Four Realms, their memory used only to frighten children. To be accused of associating with a suspected sorcerer means death or worse. Seri has adapted to her harsh exile, seeing herself well rid of her noble family’s...
diane-chamberlain's picture
Nov.29.2010
  Note: The Shadow Wife was originally published as Cypress Point Joelle D’Angelo’s best friend, Mara, is left with brain damage after she suffers an aneurysm giving birth to her son. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only other person who understands her pain: her...
amy-romine's picture
Nov.09.2010
He told her to let go, she did and his world changed forever... Their brief heated meeting one fateful night had singed itself into their minds. Not knowing of the others identity, but unable to forget, had sealed their fate. The fire smoldered quietly in each of them as they tried to move on with...
hope-edelman's picture
Nov.01.2010
In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift, questioning her place in her marriage, her profession, and the larger world. Feeling vulnerable and isolated, she was primed for change. Into her stagnant routine dropped Dodo, her three-year old daughter Maya’s curiously disruptive imaginary...
cheryl-kaye-tardif's picture
Sep.25.2010
Thirteen years ago, Sarah Richardson’s life was shattered after the tragic death of her mother. The shocking event left a grief-stricken teen-aged Sarah with partial amnesia. Some things are easier to forget. But now a familiar voice from her childhood sends Sarah, a talented mid-twenties...
marianne-villanueva's picture
Sep.17.2010
Mayor of the Roses pinpoints the immigrant question as primarily a question of identity. In answer to the question of what it means to be Filipino, Villanueva humorously presents many cultural fixations; the stories “TV” and “BMW” revolve around the family’s preoccupations of acquiring...