"Smith's romantic mystery series gets off to a fast start, when young divorcee, Mandy Basch, returns home late one night to find her house ransacked and her beloved dog Ringo brutally beaten. Desperate to save Ringo's life, she rushes to the one person she knows will help--her womanizing, thrill-seeking ex-husband, Gary, whom she divorced four years before. The predicament worsens as it becomes apparent that Mandy has something someone desperately wants, something willing to kill for. Old marital wounds are forgotten when the two discover that Mandy has the key to a million-dollar ancient...

Hannah, a photojournalist, insists her nomadic days as a wanderer are long over. She has a job. She works to improve the art she creates with her camera. Her days are steady, predictable. But they are growing complicated. A restless boyfriend, an irritating but interesting mentor, and a silent four-year-old named Robin are beginning to make the life Hannah lived in the '60s seem almost pedestrian. But Hannah's free and idealistic past contains a secret. It's that secret, and the press of unanticipated involvements, to a man and especially to the child, that propels Hannah toward a future as...

Allie Hutchins, a Boston lawyer, has had a bad experience on a hijacked bus. She's still having nightmares and panic attacks. It seems like a good idea to go home to Tyler, Missouri for a while. Because nothing every happens in Tyler, and that's what Allie needs--several weeks of peace and quiet and sanity. Except Missouri is being besieged by monsoon rains. Everything's under water. And there's a significant part of the population who thinks the rain is a sign from above, that God is reacting to the proposed Indian gambling casino. When Allie runs into an old acquaintance, Michael Quinn,...

Mason Gilbert and her precocious ten-year-old daughter Frankie are having a tough time making ends meet. Mason goes to college nights and cleans houses during the day. Hard as things are, though, they get much harder when Mason witnesses a murder one night in a client's home. Now, the murderers want her dead, too. And Mason knows Frankie's life is in danger, as well. The police are providing protection...or are they? Mason decides to take matters into her own hands, and she and Frankie flee to the one place Mason thinks they'll be safe. But Mason knows only half the story. And because of...

Gary and Amanda are planning their second wedding. But nothing goes smoothly for these two, and they each have a theory about the slashed tires, the midnight hang-ups, the vandalism at the airfield. Then things go from bad to worse and their wedding plans end up on the back burner. Amanda blames the neighbors. Gary blames a group of skinhead flyers. One of them is right, but only half-right. There's someone else looking for revenge, a revenge that has a half-life beyond what Gary and Amanda can ever imagine.

Arthur Edelstein knew how to teach the craft of fiction writing. He did it with intelligence, grace, humor, and authority. His knowledge of literature was vast, his understanding of the human condition profound, and his method of teaching unforgettable. Although many of his students went on to publish and receive recognition for their work, every person who studied with him was the better for it. This anthology is a compendium of all we learned from him and all we know and strive for as writers.a tangible token of our admiration.

Twenty years is a long time to hold on to lost love. It's also a long time to carry a grudge. When Christopher and Lily run into each other twenty years later, the one thing they can agree on is that they still 'click.' Christopher might call it a cosmic anomaly that occurs barely once in a hundred million years. Lily knows that for whatever reason they've been given a second chance. What they both discover is that this 'second chance' is nothing either of them could have ever imagined.