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A Killer in King’s Cove: A Lane Winslow Mystery

A Killer in King’s Cove: A Lane Winslow Mystery

It is 1946, and ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start, finding herself happily settled in King’s Cove. But then a body is discovered - the victim of a murder. The investigation reveals secrets that threaten to pull her into a vortex of even greater losses than the ones she has already endured.
The Quintland Sisters

The Quintland Sisters

The story of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first identical quintuplets to survive birth, told from the perspective of Emma, a midwife in training, who helps bring them into the world. The Quintland Sisters is a novel of love, heartache, resilience, and enduring sisterhood.
Next Year, for Sure

Next Year, for Sure

This novel follows the tumultuous, revelatory, and often very funny year that follows when couple Chris and Kathryn stumble into polyamory. As time goes on, they reconsider their past and what they thought they knew about love.
Dear Evelyn

Dear Evelyn

Harry Miles wins a scholarship and a chance to escape his station, but discovers that poetry is what offers him real direction. While searching for more of it he meets Evelyn. The two fall in love as the world prepares once again for war, but their capacity to care for each other over the ensuing decades becomes increasingly tested.
The Plague

The Plague

A modern retelling of Albert Camus’ classic. At first it’s dying rats in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes, followed by a quarantine imposed on the terrified city.
My Year of the Racehorse

My Year of the Racehorse

Kevin Chong has grand plans. He draws up a to-do list of major milestones that will give him the life he always wanted. Then Chong makes an unconventional decision: he buys a racehorse. It is the moving tale of a young man’s discovery that a meaningful life can arise from the most unexpected of circumstances.