What if the life you didn’t choose… chose you? On her forty-fifth birthday, Julia Ward receives a message that shouldn’t exist. At first, she assumes it’s a mistake. Then another arrives. And another. Each one reveals pieces of a life she never lived. A home she never chose. A future she walked away from. A […]

Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. She’s repressing a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she makes a new friend in school, Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. […]

When we first meet Mary Kline, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious, a child of her own. When Pearl Davis turns up pregnant after […]

All Opal Slepecki wants is loyalty. When her badly behaved friends refuse to help her die, it’s hard not to take it personally. It’s been eighteen hours since she asked for their help. The brash pill-popper. The shameless exhibitionist. And the mysterious beauty, have all gone quiet. Opal knew the request would be jarring, awkward […]

Carolina Johnson had the life everyone wanted. A solid marriage of twenty years. A gorgeous house in the most desirable neighborhood. Friends at the country club. Yet, somehow, she always felt the other shoe would drop. And drop it did! When she discovered her husband’s affair with a girl half his age. Even more devastating, […]

When Helena takes a tumble that requires hospitalization, she thinks her life as an independent woman is over. In her youth, she’d been a mother, author, speaker, and activist, but now, she’s scared and alone, abandoned by her sons, certain the world has forgotten her. Faced with moving into a retirement community, Helena struggles to […]

If Lora Hamilton was ever going to live a normal life and love again, she will have to follow through on her father’s dying request to put her tragic past behind her. For four years, Lora used work to isolate herself from others, to hide the guilt and shame she’s carried. Now she’s trapped in […]

Terry’s mundane life cracks open the morning he spots his double on a train. Who is this polished twin who seems to have the life Terry secretly wants? Sucked into a search for answers, Terry finds himself in a chaotic whirl of unsettling encounters and truths uncomfortably closer to home. Terry’s twin stays studiously clear […]

April Raines is facing the end of her long-term marriage after her husband begins another family. Eager for a fresh start, she returns home with her grown daughters to Crown Island, just off the coast of Southern California. When Ryan Kingston acquires the historical Majestic Hotel, he is determined to bring the vintage Victorian beach […]