Jill always felt like an outsider. At 16 she graduates early from high school and leaves suburban New Jersey to pursue her passion for theater at NYU. A year and half later she alternating between jobs as a stripper, escort, and theater intern when she is invited on a mysterious casting call. Within days she is on an airplane headed for Brunei to ( Read more... )

Four roommates from an unnamed university in Boston continue their lives together after college in New York City. They are artistic, brilliant, fun, and share everything. They share Jude. But Jude keeps many secrets ( Read more... )

In this fifth Cheese Shop Mystery, Charlotte hosts Noelle Adams. Noelle is moving to town to manage publicity for for Shelton Nelson's winery, although his daughter and vineyard manager are not too happy about it. She receives an icy welcome from them at the winery, and is also tracked there by the shady journalist, Ashley Yeats. While visiting ( Read more... )

As the book opens, Henry hides among the mourners at his young grandson's funeral. His son insists he come the reception, where Henry hides in the kitchen, avoiding the accusing whispers of the gathered. A late-night phone call from his grieving daughter-in-law, assuring him that she won't let him sleep as long as she can't sleep, sends him into ( Read more... )

When Lula Ann is born, her mother is appalled. The girl was dark skinned; very dark. Her family has always been proud of their light skin, sometimes light enough to pass as white. When he sees Lula Ann, her father leaves the family, convinced this cannot be his child ( Read more... )

The small town of Providence, Ohio is gearing up for a busy week. The theater is performing Hamlet against the backdrop of a mini-Renaissance festival, followed by a Stomping the Grapes fun run through the local Bozzuto winery to benefit the animal rescue center, and the wedding of Matthew and Meredith, Charlotte's cousin and best friend. As ( Read more... )

You pass people and places every day as you go about your life. Do you ever stop to notice them? Rachel does. She creates stories about the people she sees living in the homes along her commute on the train. Her favorite is a couple she has named Jess and Jason ( Read more... )

John Blake is a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he has covered commemorations of many Civil Rights events on various anniversaries and days of remembrance. Tired of hearing the same speeches he went in search of telling the story from a different angle ( Read more... )

A college student with an eating disorder revolves her story around her boyfriend with an alcohol and pill addiction. The two go on road trips and plan a revolutionary vegan uprising, both while spinning out of control ( Read more... )

The town of Providence, Ohio still considers itself to be the safest town in America, even though it has just experienced it's third murder in two years. As the annual Winter Wonderland and Founder's Day festival approaches, Kaitlyn Clydesdale arrives in town seeking to build upon her real estate empire. While Charlotte doesn't care for Kaitlyn, ( Read more... )