Twenty one years old Susmitha started facing problems not just because of her parents death in a flight accident at her fifteenth year itself but because of the strange will executed by her father also. It was the tradition for generations together in her family that the fathers do write wills so that their daughters get right on the properties of their fathers only after they enter into their twenty second year and get married. They do lose their...

Young Dick Haldane sets out on his first sea voyage aboard the S.S. Star of the North, from the deck Dick sees a ghost ship. A large full rigged ship with white canvas sails all crimson from a last expiring gleam of the sun's afterglow. The ship's sails tattered and torn, with the ragged ends blowing out loose from the boltropes in the most untidy fashion, unkempt, uncared for! But when he tries to call this ghostly ship to the attention of the rest...

As young Stubbs 'Sunshine' Shining is riding West he hears shooting, and sees four gunmen firing at a homestead. He fires a couple of shots to scare them off, and discovers that the person defending the property is a middle-aged woman named Bethany Bartok. She invites Sunshine in and gives him food and drink. He learns that her husband has died, her son Bart has gone off in search of his fortune, and her daughter Elspeth has travelled East to be educated....

A mountaintop mystery leads two conservationists to dangerous obsessions and violent passions. Natural resources student June Brandt climbs Longworth Mountain for some alone time. But when Conservation Officer Alex Weaver arrives to look into the death of a grizzly bear, June is caught up in the investigation-and fascinated by Alex. Alex is attracted by June's competence and coolness under fire-as well as her lithe body and honey-blonde hair. Although...

Thirteen. A number so feared that buildings, hospitals, and airlines have done their best to eradicate it entirely. However, in this collection of shorts, the reader will find thirteen stories with the common theme of the taboo number. Genres will vary from fantasy, crime/thriller, to adventure, and a touch of romance. You can be sure the treasures will be precious, the murders bloody, the drinks overflowing, and the ever-going battle between...

This is the early years in a story about a most remarkable female. Peacemaker at birth she goes on to bind an extended family in times of enormous upheaval. There are many problems for Rosie to overcome. Her birth mother dies when she is two so this infant is raised by her grandmothers. Her two brothers fight continually with Rosie often having to separate them. Once Rosie goes to school she is targeted by trolls. Then she has to watch her best friend...

Secrets is written for adults. It is blunt, irreverent, and shocking. Every town has its secrets. Rock Point, a small town on the East coast, is no different. Sometimes, whispered, unsettling secrets seep out to be carried on the wind, the unseen poison spreading like a disease. It's Summer 1951. Eleven-year-old Webster happens upon her mother's secret-that's when she gets to thinking that if Mama, of all people, has a secret this big, other...

A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine in poignant and surprising ways. L'Inconnue is a young woman lost in turbulent Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pieter is a Norwegian toymaker and father to two young children in the 1950s. Anouk is a contemporary Canadian suffering from cystic fibrosis, a medical condition that leaves her constantly fighting for air, swimming through the boundary between...

From David Adams Richards, winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, comes a magnificent and haunting novel about the entwinement of remembered love and unforgotten hate. Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted tells the life and legacy of Janie McCleary, a strong-willed Irish Catholic girl who dares to marry a man from the Church of England. Their union is quickly deemed scandalous, and when her husband dies young, just...

A former Marine is captivated by an alluring widow until a sniper's bullet shatters the illusion his covert past is behind him. Culinary herb gardener Ada Blaine lost her husband at a tender age. To survive she channeled a family tradition into a successful business. Former Marine Rich McConnell left behind a nasty divorce and traded a promising military career for a hardware store with no complications. After Ada shows up at a Christmas Eve bash...