Plum and Cherry have been best friends ever since growing up in the same Canadian trailer park together, even giving each other nicknames after the streets they lived on. But then Cherr’s dad hit the patent jackpot and moved her family away to a wealthier part of Port Dalhousie. Perhaps more fatally for the girls’…
Columbia Jones is living every writer’s dream. An acclaimed author of blockbuster bestsellers, she’s wrapping up the tour for her latest novel in Denver, Colorado, while surrounded by adoring fans. When one figure in the audience of her book talk abruptly stands up to leave, however, she falters and faints. Later, she and her people…
Losing his parents sent York College student Billy Anderson into a tailspin. Even though he eventually managed to pull himself together, he can’t help still feeling haunted by their senseless deaths. His dad was a cautious driver but had suddenly veered off the road to crash into a tree near their hometown of Sudbury, Pennsylvania,…
When Ruby Young impulsively decides to flee Baltimore for Boston, finding a cheap furnished apartment in practically no time at all feels like an answered prayer. While she does her due diligence – learning that the previous owner died unexpectedly from an overdose, hence the availability and affordability – the last thing she expects is…
The evocatively named Allie Catt is used to rising above her circumstances. Whether it’s her indifferent parents’ absurd choice of name for their only child or the heartbreaking end of her engagement, Allie has grown to be the kind of twenty-something woman who learns from adversity and shapes herself into someone stronger, wiser, and, most…
While my favorite Jane Austen heroine is by far the capable and mature Anne Elliot of Persuasion, I’ve been accused often enough of being too much like the eponymous heroine of Emma to not have a fondness for her as well. So when I heard that someone was writing a murder mystery following the events…
Pushing forty and single, private investigator Jo Bailen has her life laid out exactly the way she wants it. Taking pictures of cheating spouses has long soured her on the idea of marriage, even if her own background hadn’t made her doubtful of the institution after her father died and her mother’s grief refused to…
Cafe owner Lila Macapagal is excited to participate in her hometown of Shady Palms’ thirty-fifth annual Corn Festival. She and her business partners Adeena Awan and Elena Torres have been busy cooking up various beverages and baked goods that feature corn, to be offered at the booth they’ve set up for the festival. Their wares…
It’s Christmas time and Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are thrilled to be spending it in the city of Tupelo, just a few hours’ drive away from their own hometown of Zinnia, Mississippi. The birthplace of Elvis Presley has decided to add a slate of wintertime festivities to match its annual summer celebration of…
At thirty years old, Julia McWilliams wants to make a name for herself, even if ambition is considered a bad thing for women in 1940s America. She signed up with the newly formed US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after America got involved in World War II, and is chafing to prove herself as a…
