As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl’s life.In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for the summer to one of the first cottages on the ocean side of the resort village of Nags Head. Seventeen-year-old Abigail is beautiful, book-smart, but sheltered by her plantation life and hemmed-in by her emotionally distant...

Genetics doctoral student and longevity researcher Ryan Abernathy restricts his calories and his social life; he is terrified of death, but his life, governed by study and exercise, is hollow. The longevity study that he works for receives a tip from an Irish doctor regarding two elderly twin sisters, Cleona and Catherine Owen, who live on a remote island off the western coast of Ireland. Ryan volunteers to investigate, hoping to get DNA samples from the women in his ambitious effort to in...

From stories that will touch your heart to drawing from an understanding of our universal existence, the poetry within this book carries you though a series of emotions, thought provocation and quiet reflection. Junctures is about those pivotal moments in our life when whatever we do, our life will be forever redirected. Whether this is brought about in the current moment, through another’s eyes or with quiet reflection, it can be assured that somewhere in your journey of reading this book...