After Sandy hires the handsome Palmer Kern as her financial advisor, their relationship begins to warm to something more than friendship. Posed on the brink of love, Sandy enjoys...

Clare Verney watched from the airport's arrival lounge as the plane landed and taxied toward the terminal. Single, 42, a successful businesswoman, she was about to take on fulltime guardianship of a trio of children with a troubled past, children she had never before seen or spoken to. Her sister's children, now aged sixteen, fourteen, and four, had been born, reared, and orphaned at a mission station in Africa, shuffled off for a brief stay with a grandparent in England, and sent to live with Clare in an unremarkable Pennsylvania town. Now, seeing them standing in the open door of the...

When Katharine Culhane, a successful writer of fiction and historical works, died leaving behind an unpublished memoir, her literary executor, Elizabeth Fritz, discovered the memoir and undertook to publish it. It tells a story of a young reporter in Prosperity, Indiana, in the post World War II years, and a special friendship between Katharine and a Russian emigre, Madam Anna Suvorov. Fifty years later Katharine finds a letter from Madam Anna that suggests her death may have been due to foul play. Returning to Prosperity, reconnecting with old acquaintances, and asking questions about...

One day Rebecca Jane Bell was a nobody-fatherless at birth, motherless at 5, at 19 her foster parents dead in a car crash, with neither kith nor kin, unemployed, a pile of bills falling due. But only days later she was faced with a vast fortune bequeathed to her by Cousin Willy Bell, an eccentric relative she had never known. His bequest came with quirky conditions attached; they required her to sign a contract to live as the salaried tenant and caretaker of the Bell family homestead and to maintain it as Hobo's home so long as his beloved dog lived. Those terms fulfilled, Willy's great...