What do you owe the dead?
Margaret Walsh has spent twenty years answering that question the same way: everything.
Every Tuesday at the elementary school library.
Every Sunday arranging altar flowers.
Every moment keeping her late husband Tom's memory alive by refusing to have a life of her own.
Her children think she's coping beautifully. The town of Crosby, Minnesota thinks she's a saint. Margaret thinks she's just passing time until she can see Tom again.
Jamie Cross has spent forty years working the same land his father worked, and his grandfather before that. At sixty-seven, he knows every inch of his farm by heart—which makes watching it die all the harder. Three years of bad weather have decimated his crops, the bank's closing in, and his wife Kelly is fighting breast cancer. Main Street's dying. The diner's empty. The hardware store closed last month. And Jamie's running out of time to save the only life he's ever known.
At eighty-seven, Jack sits in a nursing home telling impossible stories. Elephants on the Serengeti. Oil fields in Saudi Arabia. A passionate lover in France. The Milky Way blazing over an empty desert. His daughter Kelly smiles politely and exchanges worried glances with her husband Steven, who's more concerned about the excessive monthly care bills that are draining their retirement.
Bridget and Jake's marriage is hanging by a thread. After years of growing apart, mounting resentments, and words that can't be taken back, they're closer to divorce than they've been to each other in months. When Bridget's parents insist they take one last trip together, a fourteen-day bus tour through the Midwest
What would you do if the life you trusted most turned out to be a lie?
In Getting Even, Cathy Rave refuses to be the woman left behind. When betrayal shatters her marriage, she faces a choice—fall apart or rise stronger than ever. With sharp wit, unwavering support from her best friend Sylvia, and the strategic brilliance of attorney Kevin Miller, Cathy begins a transformation that is as empowering as it is unexpected.
But this isn’t just a story of revenge.
When Mark Peters first noticed Judy Faust sitting before a pen and ink drawing in Milwaukee's art museum, he couldn't know that both their lives were about to change forever.
Judy returns twice weekly to gaze at the drawing—her own creation , made three years earlier when she could still see.
In a world drowned in noise, where connections fade into the background, one family's quiet story rises above the chaos. Meet Jimmy Harrigan—a boy whose curious eyes and musical ear turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. Are you ready to hear the music? Discover the story that will inspire you to embrace different rhythms and rewrite what’s possible.
In the heart of Milwaukee, where memories linger like the scent of fresh-baked bread, Kevin Williams is a man trapped in a web of grief. At 72, he finds himself mourning the recent loss of his beloved wife, Janet, who fought bravely against a cruel illness.
As Kevin drowns in sorrow, he is swept up by the well-meaning efforts of his daughters, who set him up on a blind date—an act that will change everything.
An unforgettable story of forbidden love, family secrets, and the enduring power of connection.
When Olivia Campbell discovers a wooden box containing 41 letters in her grandmother Eleanor's attic, she uncovers a decades-long love affair that challenges everything she thought she knew about her family.
The letters reveal not just a hidden affair, but a lifetime of choices.
In the unforgiving world of high fashion, Elizabeth Evans has spent three years in obscurity, her once-promising career deliberately shattered by a former lover. Once a respected partner at the prestigious Rosenbaum Design Group, she now operates under a new name
A train whistle sounds in the distance. A moment of exhilaration. The thunder of approaching steel.
And in an instant, childhood ends.
The Train is a poignant exploration of friendship, those pivotal moments that define us, and the fragility of time we too often take for granted.
In the coldest corner of winter, a single mother's desperate prayer takes the form of a hastily completed request on a churches Giving Tree.
"Just a snowsuit for a baby girl, size 12 months. Something to keep her warm. Pink if possible. Thank you."