Three generations of Koopmans live-"uneasily"-under the same roof of a farm house twenty miles from the center of Holy Cross, Iowa.
Thirty-year-old William Koopman needs to move out. But Dad wanted him on the farm after Grandpa died, so William stayed, married his girl Marcy, and even brought her to the farmhouse to live. The poor girl made it a year before she bolted at the end of a rough winter.
A week after Marcy leaves, William's shiftless younger brother John returns home. The prodigal son with no money in his wallet, but lots of ideas to make it all back in Holy Cross.
If...

An unlikely team of misfit players, and the coach fighting to hold them all together...
In his first season as head coach of the All Nations team, former slave George Grunion contends with racist crowds, low team morale, and... the ghost of the previous head coach.
And if George can't hold the All Nations together, he loses more than his job and his team. He'll miss his chance to fulfill the prophecy made by his prescient centerfielder Mack - that George will be reunited with his estranged family before the 1918 season ends.
If George doesn't score this final run, he loses...

Retirement: it's not just for the elderly.
Thirty-six-year-old JB lives to inspire the old folks at Whispering Pines Rest Home. He listens to their stories, encourages them to get some fresh air, and makes sure they aren't just sitting around waiting for the end to come.
But he's not a doctor, not a therapist. He's a resident of Whispering Pines, too.
When the finances for Whispering Pines hit the skids, the Home starts to earn the wrong kind of attention. And JB is left to confront the harsh reality of his past, and the reason he dropped out of life to retire three decades...

Bartolamus the Sorcerer is dying. His days of adventuring and forging new words of magic are firmly behind him. Or so it seems. As his trembling apprentice approaches his bedside with a silver whistle in his right hand and a tarnished bell in his left, the ancient wizard shares his history. He also reveals his plans for one last quest: an attempt to re-open the doors to the barred and mysterious City of All-Worlds, far away and spoken of only in whispers. For the locked City of All-Worlds is rumored to hold a portal at its center that could link other worlds to this one. A portal of immense...

Magic: It can show up in the strangest places...
An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head. Thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago, he doesn't realize it. Most days he can't even remember his own name.
But when two teens try to jump him in an alley, the magic Words come back to him at last, and he "infects" the kids with magic. And soon Chicago has a wild epidemic of magic on its hands...
An earlier, but still self-contained version of the novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, but with a slightly...

Try not to listen to those who whisper...
Tommy Roling has a great freelance job, a healthy daughter, and a new city to call home. Plus he's finally comfortable with the fact that he's a werewolf. So why isn't he happy?
Could it be his daughter's "terrible twos," which seem even more terrible because she chooses to stay in her wolf body most of the time? Or is it his growing distance from his family as well as Nina, his on-again, off-again girlfriend?
Those questions remain unanswered as a group of strangers disrupts the lives of Tommy, his daughter, and his slacker...