"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When she is confronted by an...

"Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children's literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she's fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole. The victim - an opinionated busybody whose jewelry store sold original designs, along with some possibly "hot" merchandise - had plenty...

"When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it"--

Every summer, Thayer Wentworth, the daughter of a wealthy Middletown, Georgia family, attended Camp Greyledge on Burnt Mountain. It was there were she learned the facets of love and heartbreak with a boy named Nick Abrams. Years later, she marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and moves a few miles away from her childhood camp, much to the disapproval of her family. However, when Aengus spends a lot of time at the camp, Thayer realizes her husband might...

"On the cusp of her eighteenth birthday, Heera and her best friends, siblings Marie and Marco, tease the fun out of life in Raleigh, North Carolina, with acts of rebellion and delinquency. They paint the town's water towers with red anarchy symbols and hang out at the local bus station to pickpocket money for their Great Escape to New York. But no matter how much Heera defies her strict upbringing, she's always avoided any real danger-until one devastating...

"Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. Now after five years, John Hart is back with a stunning literary thriller. Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free. But for how long? And...

"As owner of April Springs's one and only donut shop, Suzanne Hart is privy to the deliciously personal, downright eccentric tastes of her customers. When one order -- crullers heavy on the icing -- isn't picked up, a tall dark stranger buys the whole box. Which he tosses, one drippy cruller at a time, at her friend Gabby's storefront next door. The man claims that stolen family valuables ended up in Gabby's thrift shop. Suzanne wants to call the...

"Can't make time for love? The Shaughnessy brothers have spent the years since their mother's untimely death taking care of one another and trying to make their father proud. Oldest son Aidan is hardworking, handsome, successful and still single. Sure, he'd like to have his own family someday, but who has the time? She'll show him how to find it. Zoe Dalton, a stunning designer Aidan meets on one of his construction jobs, has the beauty and heart...

Sixth grader Annie Lee Fitzgerald's father died eighty-three days ago. Since then, her mother has worked long hours to make ends meet, and Annie Lee does her best to stay invisible. To get away from mysterious events in her house, Annie Lee makes her way to a local mall where she takes piano lessons from Ray, the elderly man who plays for patrons, in hopes of winning a cash prize to help her family. One day, Ray goes missing and Annie Lee decides...