New novel ... told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate--a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net. It's December 22nd and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their...

The charming Rosemary Cottage offers midwife Amy Lange the respite she needs to mourn her brother, Ben, who disappeared in what most people blame on a surfing accident--but Amy has reason to wonder. Coast Guard officer Curtis Ireland has lost a sibling too. His sister, Gina, was killed in a boating accident, leaving him to raise her infant daughter, and, like Amy, with questions about his sibling's death. Curtis can't help being drawn to Hope Beach's...

When their parents die in a tragic accident, Molly Bennett and her siblings pull together to fulfill their parents dream of turning their historic North Carolina home back into an inn.

Ellie Ballantyne, youngest child of Silas and Eden, has left finishing school. But back at her family home in Pittsburgh, Ellie finds that her parents are away on a long trip and her siblings don't seem to want her to stay. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, envious of the powerful Ballantynes and suspicious of their...

Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujer�ia to rescue her kidnapped sister.

When tragedy befalls the townspeople of Candlewood and Emma Garrett opens her boarding house to those in need, tensions arise when two siblings' disagreeable nature puts them at odds with the other guests.

Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.

When the third White sibling brings a carnival to town, giving everyone who visited strange nightmares and weird dreams, the Blue Falcons, with a host of new candies, must tap into the power of their own dreams to battle their greatest adversary yet.

Fourteen-year-old Jay tries to recover a group of wily monkeys escaped from a circus train in the hopes the reward will buy him the gun and pony he has so long wanted. Fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee spends his summer trying to catch a group of monkeys that have escaped from a circus into Oklahoma's Cherokee Ozarks. In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus....

Luna Bodman always looks forward to a new shipment of furniture at the restoration shop. Her brother, Cullen, has a knack for finding discarded pieces with an intriguing history, and Luna likes to sit with each item to see if she can feel any kind of vibrations. Usually, Cullen does his thing while Luna does hers, but the arrival of an old armoire triggers a reaction in Luna that's impossible to ignore. From the moment Luna wiggles inside the armoire...