Andrew Fullerton, a wealthy businessman, is found dead in a burn on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Suspicion immediately falls on a group of amateur writers who stand to benefit from the prizes...

Pearl receives a surprise present from her mother, Dolly – an early summer break at a riverside manor house that has been recently transformed into an exclusive hotel – the newly named Villa Pellegrini. Pellegrini – the Italian word for pilgrims...

When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.’s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it’s time to start asking some serious questions―no matter what...

Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But...

This is the story of Antonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. In quiet, probing depth, the story commemorates the spirit and courage of the immigrant pioneers whose persistence and...

Sionsil Jose is seen as one of the Philippine’s greatest novelists.  The Rosales Novels are a series of five novels about the life of a small Illocano town in Central Luzon (Rosalles) after which the Novels are named.  I am...

Spyri forever lives in the past, haunted by old memories. This summer, she meets a man she once loved, and he is about to change everything… Spyri, a half-Greek restauranteur in her early thirties, is back on the island...

Eight years old and growing up in Colonial Singapore, enjoying all the elite privileges that came with having a Colonial senior police officer father. Rowena Hawkins and her immigrant family from Ceylon, were living the 1960s Singapore dream —...

On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes...

When Tessa Talman first meets Simon Fremont, not only is she attracted to him, she’s intrigued by how different their lives are. He’s a dedicated scientist, practical, pragmatic, and grounded. She’s a head-in-the-clouds romance author. As their relationship grows,...