"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...

"Karol Charles does not have time for ghosts. Its Christmas Eve and she's at the office. Sure, her kids thought shed be making cookies with them back at home, but this is important . This is what it means to have it all. Then, a familiar cough from the adjacent room jolts her out of her work. It can't be possible. Marley is dead. She has been for years. With Marley's death, Karol is now running their law firm by herself. But she still strives to live...