Enraged by his loss in a bitter custody fight, Michael Johnson kidnaps his son Adam. As they drive through the Arizona desert Michael suffers heart failure. Adam strikes out in search of help and encounters Carla and Tino, Mexican teenagers who have crossed into the U.S. illegally. Tino goes to aid Adam's father, leaving Adam and Carla behind. Finding him dead, he panics, takes the dead man's car and wallet, disposes of his body and returns for Carla and Adam. The three travel to the town of Paloverdes. Adam's mother has reported her son missing and Sheriff Patterson is close on their...

A Mormon family sets sail to America and travels west to a new life in Utah. In reaching their destination, the Thomas family survives disease, hunger and the perils of an untamed continent . The children, Ruth and Richard are discontent in their new home. Richard runs away with prospectors, Joseph, their father, leaves to fight Lincoln's Union army, and Ruth and her ailing mother set out for Salt Lake City. En route, Ruth is kidnapped by Indians. Separated from one another, each member of the Thomas family discovers that freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. Apart and on their own,...

Love that began in the past surfaces anew in the lives of Alisa and Brad and alters the course of their lives. An unexpected encounter in China triggers memories of ancient lives eerily similar to present events. Tragedies that occurred over two thousand years ago parallel twentieth century America's. Sovereign Scepter is a work of fiction created from historical records of events during the time of China's Qin dnasty. Shihuangdi, King Zichu, Queen Zhao Ji, Fu Su, Hu Hai, Chao Kao, Li Si, Jing Ki and Mein Tien were real people. All other characters are imagined.

MONA'S SECRET is about deception and the terrible price it extracts. It is also about redemption. "After my murder I began to seek my truth and found it linked to love . . . " Franklin Jones narrates the story of his short life while his murderer, Mona Heid, proceeds living hers. An inquest into Franklin's death clears Mona. Traumatized by her terrible secret, Mona leaves her family home in Seattle and flies to Hong Kong to stay with her father, Tom Heid. Tom's household servant, Lihua, has escaped Mainland China's cultural revolution and finds refuge in Tom's home. Mona, appalled to see...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. A less acknowledged truth is that Mary Bennet might be a better fit. For Marnie Barnes, realizing she’s a Mary Bennet is devastating. But she’s determined to reinvent herself, so she enlists the help of her bubbly roommate and opens up to the world.  And between new friends, a very cute boy, and a rescue pup named Sir Pat, Marnie finds herself on a path to becoming a new person entirely. But she’s no Lizzy, or even Mary—instead, she’s someone even better: just...

Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola’s summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record—and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her: a path of self-discovery she never saw coming. Given an ultimatum—jail time, or spending the summer with the nonprofit Hike Like a...