Madeline Weaver is putting everything on the line. Her hometown is dying, and she will stop at nothing to save it. Using her fortune to buy up the town's land, she holds a national contest to give away the property, piece by piece. As modern-day pioneers apply for a place in Madeline's hyper-controlled world, she chooses only those who spark her interest and seem suited to her own designs. There's an egotistical banker from Manhattan, a Jewish retired...

Moving to a small country cabin, a once world-famous photographer bonds with a local man and begins to see the world around her in new, deeper dimensions while evaluating second chances at love, career, and self-understanding.

When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese expects to find no more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year from Iola's youth to her...

Downsized from her job. Dumped by her boyfriend. Depressed about that upcoming 6-0 birthday. Not a good week for Andi McConnell. But now there's good news: She's just inherited a limousine, a long, sleek, black limousine, from an eccentric uncle. There's also bad news: The dead body that soon turns up in the trunk. And Andi is the top suspect in the murder. Enter Keegan "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, former TV detective, very interested in the case - and...

Elderly Elner Shimfissle's fall from a tree while picking figs sets off a chain of events that leaves the residents of small Elmwood Springs, Missouri, pondering the meaning of life.

Cora Sledge is horrified when her children, who doubt her ability to take care of herself, plot to remove her from her home. So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an eighty-two-year-old widow wants to l

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic...

South Carolina widow Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry, still not ready to slow down after eight marriages, enlists her three most trusted friends--Sophie, Mavis, and Ida--in a scheme to keep the Hollywood gossip tabloid her daughter works for from failing, due to the owner's gambling debts.

This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law clerks leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. We'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend)...