They chose their own roads, but they couldn't change their destination. . .Twenty years ago, Vanessa Massey couldn't wait to graduate from high school and make her small hometown of Danton Hill a distant memory--despite an indelible friendship she'd recently forged. But life has largely ignored her plans, and time has summoned her back to the shores of Lake Ontario for a school reunion that could change everything.After four years as Danton Hill High's resident outcast, Ada...

One final Christmas wish could change their lives forever. . .Nora Connors Rainer has returned to her hometown, Linden Corners, to tend to her elderly but spunky mother--and to nurse a broken heart. To keep busy, Nora opens "A Doll's Attic," a consignment shop where locals can unload their unwanted heirlooms--or search for new treasures.Seventy-five-year old Thomas Van Diver hands Nora her first challenge: track down a rare, vintage item that holds powerful childhood memori...

Can they look to the future—and still celebrate the past?As the holidays descend upon Linden Corners with a flurry of cooking, shopping, and visitors, young Janey Sullivan is worried her Christmas traditions may get lost in the mix. Though she loves her adoptive father, Brian Duncan, she longs for her birth parents and questions her past. But an unexpected yuletide visitor may have just the answers she needs.Haunted by the loss of his soul mate, Brian is reluctant to test the waters...

Todd Gleason, the charming and dimpled con man who last appeared in TWO TODD TALES, returns to print for the first time in more years than he’s willing to admit. The author, too. In these two novellas, cons abound and suspicion reigns. It’s crime fiction…with a laugh track.In THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN AND HER MEN, Marilyn Mackenzie is an old friend who has just lost her fifth husband. Lost, as in died. And yes, her fifth. Poor Hank Dilfer got bashed over the head by a deer foot, the l...

This lyrical novel celebrates the joys and tears of love lost and found, and of a life renewed in a most unexpected placeAt thirty-four, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the road, he leaves the city's busy streets behind. . .On ...

He charmed you in London. He deceived you in California. His tales have taken people for their money in New York and Florida. Now, snarky con man Todd Gleason goes to France. Is the con finally on him?It begins before he’s even involved, with a young lady named Alice. Her life is far from a Wonderland. She’s in possession of a rare jewel, la grenouille doree. But not for long. She loses the jewel, and her life.Ah, Todd Gleason. He’s never lacking for something to d...

This Christmas, the greatest gifts can't be found beneath a tree...Eight-year-old Janey Sullivan has had a difficult year, between losing her mother and adjusting to life with her guardian, Brian Duncan. But with the holidays approaching, her one Christmas wish is to find the perfect gift for Brian--if she can learn to trust him first.Reeling from the loss of his soul mate, Brian is determined to give her daughter, Janey, an extraordinary Christmas. But he struggles to read...

NEWLY REVISED EDITION!The Todd Gleason series has received acclaim from such distinguished sources as Mystery Scene magazine and the Mystery Gazette, as well as from best-selling authors like Jeff Abbott, SJ Rozan, and Tamar Myers* and others. Now, from an author who has been said to deliver "an ending like Agatha Christie on helium*" here are two novellas featuring his con-man-with-a-heart.In THE PERILS OF PENELOPE PITTSON, Todd has agreed to protect a lovely heiress while...

What happens when men who work two sides of the moral code of crime come together? Todd Gleason, con man, meets Jimmy McSwain, private detective, in a game of wits that challenges their own take on justice.For Todd Gleason, there was something alluring about Jersey-born Angela Delvecchio that caught his attention. They had a fun night, but that's all, right?On his train ride back to the city, Todd overhears two men of questionable repute discussing the death of a friend of ...

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The con...