Manchester, 1940: The minute war was declared, best riends Sally and Deborah volunteered for the home guard, willing to do anything to help their boys fighting overseas. An Auxiliary Fire Service girl by night, Sally ends up stationed at the salvage depot by day. Working amidst the scrap metal and waste paper, helping to make do and mend, isn’t […]

Beginning marriage in unexpected ways… A Convenient Beginning Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the United States on a visa, which is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stay, marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia’s going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs him as much as he needs her. There’s a […]

Sisters. Weddings. Secrets. Fed up with being known as the oldest and most responsible of the Rose sisters, Ashleigh yearns for the life not lived and longs to strike out on her own so that she can regain the dreams of her past; the ones she abandoned in order to take care of her sisters […]

Hazel didn’t think there was anything a homemade apple pie couldn’t fix, until her husband divorced her and left her broke. Trying her best to raise her ten-year old daughter and make ends meet, Hazel is desperate for a fresh start. When she inherits a fixer-upper in the small town of Maple Bay, Hazel and […]

In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell happens upon a curious piece of music, the Incendio waltz, and is immediately entranced by its unusual composition. Full of passion, torment, and chilling beauty, and seemingly unknown to the world, the waltz, its mournful minor key, its feverish arpeggios, appear to dance with a strange […]

In the coastal town of Dufferin Beach, Katy Kiss is searching for the hope she had as a child, when her immigrant grandmother pinched her cheeks and promised a lifetime of “Happily”. At twenty-six, that Happily is nowhere to be found. Katy is stuck working in her family’s Hungarian restaurant, and her marriage feels like […]