Welcome to Coopers Detection Agency: "No job too big. No detection too small." It's been one year since the body of a sixteen-year-old boy was found in the woods. It was just a few days past Halloween, when the snows came too early and covered up any evidence that might have been. But the boy's parents insist that their child was murdered-even though no weapon was found and there didn't seem to be any motive. Promising a hefty payment, the parents have hired Coopers Detection Agency. Now all Lucas Cooper has to do is convince his sister and partner, Gillian, to spend five weeks in the bitter...

Little Emma was only a baby when her 16-year-old mother brought her home to be raised under the care of her grandparents, Alma and Joe. A tiny bundle from heaven was all they knew and, despite the hardships and illnesses they must face together, Alma and Joe raised her as best as they could on their beautiful farm of Lilac Thyme. Eventually, Emma and her mother move away from the farm and now Emma must struggle to live with a mentally challenged sister as well as deal with her own incapacitating illness. It is more than anyone is prepared to handle, especially a sweet little girl like Emma,...

Leave a Light on for Christmas is reminiscent of Christmases past and is old fashioned in its sincerity. It is Christmas Eve. The elderly woman narrating the story is rocking her great-grandchild by the light of her Christmas tree. She proceeds to tell the story behind every ornament on the tree, thereby telling her own life story. The book starts in 1935, covers the war years, and the many important changes that have led up to present day. The story is told year by year, as Christmas comes around and the ornaments on the old woman's tree reflect the changes and events of her life. Set in...