Dangerous Secrets?
Ellen Jones, first introduced in the Baxter series, enjoys a leisurely lunch at a Seaport restaurant where she overhears a private conversation at the table next to her--and disturbing accusations involving the husband of a woman she has recently befriended.
When Ellen goes to the husband's employer and cannot get answers, she digs through old newspaper articles and stumbles onto information too frightening to keep to herself. Will Ellen become enmeshed in speculation and gossip--or will she take the lead and become a catalyst for truth and healing?...

Things Aren t Always How They Appear
Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy s pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. Communication between the Joneses rapidly deteriorates when Ellen s stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI s spotlight and Guy s bad graces. Guy soon discovers Kinsey s dark side, which inevitably pulls him...

The Past Is Back
Ellen Jones s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence s memory is failing though he can t seem to forget what he s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when he s diagnosed with Alzheimer s, Ellen realizes she never released her resentment and it s too late for reconciliation. Then suddenly literally overnight her son, Owen, comes face-to-face with the consequences of his wilder days gone by. No one is prepared for the changes he, and the entire family, will have to make as a result. The past weighing heavily...

In Search of Significance
Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fiancee-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a temporary job at a summer camp for disadvantaged kids, Brandon begins a turbulent relationship with a biracial adolescent named Caedmon. Somewhere in the midst of the chaos caused by Caedmon s disappearance just before a hurricane is predicted to hit Seaport, and by a group of racists who will not stop at arson or murder Brandon begins to see...