In Paris, haute couturier Sébastien Fel is totally blocked about designs for his new collection until he sees Rachel Bowman, a plump, pretty Ohio teacher who has never worn anything from a designer in her life. He claims her as a muse for his Renaissance Woman high fashion clothing, celebrating the beauty of, um, larger women. Everyone is skeptical, including Rachel, but she reluctantly agrees, mostly to enjoy Paris for another few months rather than teaching French to bored high schoolers...

Reclusive, obsessive, and creative, painter Keith Owen has secrets, dark ones that have affected his family for years. His grown daughter Kinley ignores her artistic talent and shrinks from a romantic commitment with a musician, figuring he'll turn out to be like her father, while her brother Brendan keeps trying to make the family he always wanted out of an impossible marriage. After their mother's death, Kinley and Brendan begin to question the source of their father's behavior. As they ...

The night-blooming cereus is a gangly, ugly plant, justifying its existence by producing an annual blossom of ethereal beauty and scent that lasts only one night. Like the flower, Garnet Grant exists in a grim, narrow world, bound by her mother's whims and grudges and her family's hardscrabble survival in rural Kentucky over a century ago. Garnet has dreams, though, and hopes, and the determination to bloom however she can.

UNBROKEN CIRCLES continues the story of the Grant family and their loves, losses, and lives after NIGHTBLOOMING. Stretching from 1915 with the shadow of World War I, through the lively 1920s, and into 1931 when the Great Depression affects nearly everyone, the novel spans an eventful era. Like NIGHTBLOOMING, the saga travels between the small rural community of Evans, County, Kentucky, to the bustling growth of Lexington. Amid their heartaches and joys, the family remains an unbroken circl...

After his wife's death, artist Keith Owen realizes that the web of lies he's woven for decades might be shredded. He's hidden, lied, and led a reclusive life so he could paint with freedom. And all of that is catching up with him. His grown children, Kinley and Brendan have suffered from their father's idiosyncratic life. Kinley fears committment to a musician she loves. Brendan is still looking for the perfect family in a toxic marriage. But as the truth unravels, they stand to suffer eve...

A passenger dies on the Barcelona-Cincinnati flight. When EMTs and Customs officials suspect biological terrorism, the Cincinnati Airport is locked down. Some passengers have already cleared and exited, but the remaining ones as well as TSA and other airport employees, Customs officers, and one airport policeman are flown to an abandoned Army post for quarantine. Just before they take his phone, the policeman, Luke Davies, calls his wife Maggie and tells her to take their son to his parent...