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 ...

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...

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...

Kinsey Millhone ventures into the darker side of the human soul in this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one—a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fata...

Super sleuth Ivy Malone's inquisitiveness has gotten her into plenty of trouble, including murder, mayhem, and a place on a mini-Mafia hit list. Still on the run from the mob, Ivy ends up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest with a broken-down motor home, a young traveling companion running from a violent husband, and a stray cat. With no way to fix their vehicle, Ivy and her companion are invited to stay in an old Victorian house by a compassionate young woman attorney. But when Ivy d...

A sharp, insightful portrait of how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives, set against a backdrop of moneyed New York CityMeet Sarah and Lauren. Rich and pretty, respectively. They first met twenty years ago at a tony Manhattan private school (Sarah the Queen Bee and Lauren the new kid, of course), and have been inseparable ever since. Best friends through thick and thin, high sc...

The New York Times bestseller! "The original Sex and the City gal is back with another juicy glimpse into love and life in New York City." — CosmopolitanWith a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, an...

**An astonishing memoir from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark, detailing the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s."Demonstrates the true meaning of family." —Chicago Tribune**As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an un...

As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who’d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart—and his home—in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family a...