By Susan Wittig Albert
Thanksgiving leaves a scrambling China Bayles with little to be thankful for when her mother’s husband suffers a sudden heart attack. China’s mother, Leatha, turns to assistant Sue Ellen, who is ending her marriage to a trophy game ranch foreman, to help her turn an old game ranch into a birders vacation retreat. When Sue Ellen’s car swerves off the road and she dies, China investigates the accident’s potential link to a case of stolen fawns.
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Passing the time with her health-conscious father while preparing to launch her own interior-design business, recent university graduate Emma Woodhouse counsels her peers as summer brings a few surprises to Highbury. Emma’s former governess’ handsome stepson, a teacher’s assistant with much to learn about the world, and the flawless Jane Fairfax are about to change Emma’s world in ways she never imagined.
Though still obsessing over her congenial heart condition, Mary Catherine spends most of her time doing charity work. When a trip to Africa to meet her sponsored children reveals seven teenagers living in an orphanage with no support system, Mary Catherine leaves romance and her job behind to return to Africa and help those in need.
An impulsive land purchase leads to generations of hardship when Bill Blair buys the wooded chunk of land that will become Silicon Valley and marries a woman whose love of art will cost her dearly. When the couple’s children become adults, a disturbing echo of things past forces them to reevaluate who they really are in a story that spans five decades of a California family dealing with secret desires.
By Heather Graham:
A conspiracy changes everything as two tightly bound brothers discover their new destiny.
Formerly unknown amateur Travis McKinley knows he never deserved to become a golf legend overnight. After following his PGA Senior Open win with several personal missteps and enduring several disappointments, Travis takes a troubled teenage outcast under his wing in the hopes of helping the young golfer achieve the impossible.
When their humiliated father, an ex-army Colonel, severs their access to the family fortune, Maddie and Ellis Hyde travel to war-torn Scotland, where colorblind Ellis plans to find the Loch Ness monster his father failed to locate, hoping to win his father’s approval once more. Meanwhile, Maddie embraces her true identity. Society awakens the true woman within as Hitler’s war rages.
