BOOKS
The Healing Train:
A devastating diagnosis. A family with a broken past. Embark on an uplifting journey of love, hope, and the ultimate second chance.
When health-conscious Sarah gets diagnosed with breast cancer, her world spins out of control. She’s supposed to grow old with her husband and see her daughter graduate college. Her future is all planned out. Getting sick wasn’t part of her plan.
Friends and family rally around Sarah as she battles the disease. Her best friend offers inspirational advice while her mother takes her to treatment, her daughter makes green juice, and her older brother provides emotional support and makes her laugh with his ever-present potty mouth.
Then Sarah’s estranged father returns. She gave up on him long ago and doesn’t want to reconnect, but he won’t go away, so she’s stuck dealing with him at the worst possible time. His presence forces her to face a past she’d rather forget as she uses all her strength to fight for her life.
When the Time Is Right:
As veterinarian Michelle Catalano helps other people’s ailing animals earn their angel wings, she tries not to think about the empty cat perch in her own home. Or the empty side of her bed, grown cold since her boyfriend left town.
Then a pet psychic’s uncannily accurate reading leaves Michelle with more questions than the answers she thought were set in stone. And warnings so dark, she wishes she still had her cat at her side to cuddle the fear away.
When a brutal murder devastates Michelle and her family, the detective working the case is her only anchor. And soon, she’s turning to Bruce for the comfort that could heal her broken heart.
But there are too many unanswered questions about the killer, causing Michelle to secretly investigate on her own. Will Michelle’s search for answers spell her doom, or deliver help from the animal afterlife above?
His Secret Life:
Philip is a gay man working for a conservative corporation. After his recent promotion, he needs a date for a company function and asks his sister’s new roommate, Emily.
Emily is an actress, waiting tables while starring in local plays and hoping for her big break. She agrees to be Philip’s date for the party, and soon they are attending one event after another together.
Philip and Emily click on many levels. Lines blur as the people they pretend to be start feeling like the people they are, causing a rift with Philip’s boyfriend Jason.
When Philip no longer works for the company, he doesn’t need Emily to play the role of his girlfriend anymore, but to his surprise, he can’t let her go.
Eighty and Out:
Back in the 1950s, when my younger sister Jeannie and I were kids, we made a pact not to live past age 80.
We’d seen our Aunt Violet waiting to die in the nursing home, and we decided that wouldn’t happen to us. We’d live life to the fullest and go out on our own terms.
Little did we know what fate had in store for us…
On the Inside:
Kristen was living the dream—a loving husband, adorable children, a successful career. Why hadn’t it been enough? She’s had a lot of time to ponder the answer—behind bars.
It was a little fudging of the numbers, just once to cover some unpaid bills. Somehow, she wound up a convicted white-collar criminal, sentenced to a women’s prison full of drug dealers and murderers, enduring days of mind-numbing tedium punctuated by moments of harrowing violence. A place where respect is earned with one’s fists.
Yet within these same stark walls, random acts of kindness occur, friendships form, and people fall in love. Letters from her sister-in-law keep Kristen connected to the family she’s lost. They give her hope that someday she might be given a second chance. But first, she must face the personal demons lurking in the shadows of her soul—and find a way to forgive herself.
A Widow Redefined:
On a cold Valentine’s Day in Chicago, Amy White, a young widow who lost her husband to cancer, visits the cemetery and finds a bouquet of fresh daffodils lying on her husband’s grave.
Curiosity grows into obsession as Amy searches for the stranger who left the flowers, keeping her activities a secret from her live-in mother and seven-year-old son. The quest brings an unusual friend into Amy’s life, one who puts her past into perspective and sends her on a journey of healing and transformation.
An emotional page-turner that will have you guessing until the end, A Widow Redefined is perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Emily Bleeker, and Kerry Lonsdale.