"You know how one year is seven dog years? Well five months dating Lee is the equivalent of three years dating a normal woman." Lee and Bucky are back, but you know it's never that easy. Five months later, Hal's still around and Lee's mother is already picking out bridesmaid dresses. Auto-mechanic and Angel-phile Lee could live with those gourmet brownies dense enough to form their own gravity well, but she's not so sure about that "forever" part. After all, when you get married, you're supposed to do the unthinkable and say no when that hot guy says you and your restored 1965 Mustang look...

Three homeless children. Two estranged brothers. One last chance. Kevin Farrell is a jaded police officer who's trying to save three homeless children, but it's three nights before Christmas, and the only one he can ask for help is his brother, a disabled priest. The catch? He and his brother have been estranged because after all the evil he's seen, Kevin cannot believe in God. Only now, to save these homeless kids, with temperatures below zero and falling, Kevin knows it's going to take both him and his brother working together, if only they can mend the breach between them.

Ever since Adam left the garden, Gabriel has known why humans sometimes act irrationally, and he helps them without hesitation whenever God gives him an assignment. All seven Archangels of the Presence do as much, sometimes even without orders - whether it's redirecting a lovesick princess, encouraging a terrified hero, or dealing with an amulet-wielding old man who's compelling an unlikely service from the angel least likely to give it. But after a brutal attack during one assignment, Gabriel starts getting touchy and harder to deal with. The other angels love him, but it's been going on for...

Gabriel and the other Archangels of the Presence have a new assignment: guard the Messiah through his childhood and ministry. Gabriel still struggles to synthesize the lessons for his year as a man, but he carries the shame of his punishment with him into his relations with the other angels. When created beings kill the Son of God, mortal enemies suddenly become allies while close friends become enemies, and Gabriel finds himself on the battle field of a war he never wanted to fight.

29-year-old Lee has a Park Slope apartment with easy access to Manhattan, loves her job as an auto mechanic, and can see her guardian angel (a wisecracker with a fascination for the Rumours album.) That's kind of a full life for a kid in the world's biggest playground. Despite what everyone thinks, she doesn't need, or want, a romantic relationship. Far more comfortable in blue jeans and flannel than in heels and satin, Lee finds herself lying to every man she dates. To the physical trainer, she's a preschool teacher; to the guy at the bowling alley, she's a secretary. The lies keep romance...

"I think you have a twin." Amber Brickman used to dream of unearthing ancient civilizations with her soulmate. But now she's the Assistant Fire Marshal, sifting through burn sites while the walls are still warm, looking for evidence of arson. It's the life she's pieced together after her fiance was murdered just weeks before their wedding. Ashes are easier to sort out than broken hearts, and paperwork doesn't leave you lonely. She's not asking for more, but she's about to get it when her mother sees a woman on the news who looks and sounds just like her. Her mother is convinced she's found...

Playing viola in her string quartet is the only joy in Joey's life. It's the reason she can tolerate her toxic family and her day job as a tollbooth operator. But the only reason Joey isn't a "starving musician" is that peanut butter is cheap, and you can buy day-old bread for a dollar. Her quartet needs to start making money, and soon.

HARRISON: the fearless first violinist who's always driven the group.

SHREYA: the secretive second violinist who seems to have one foot out the door.

JOSH: the cellist who only now is facing up to a...

Jay and Kevin are back in the third of the Father Jay series


Something has to break in Father Jay's endless series of commitments, and it's turning out to be his health. Already disabled after driving over a land mine in Iraq, Jay is stretched to the max running a soup kitchen, sheltering homeless teens, and saying the occasional funeral for a fallen police officer. His parish is right in the middle of disputed gang territory, and the violence keeps spilling over into the church.

An agnostic cop, Kevin would love nothing more than for his brother Jay to leave the...