"Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted...Now Sloane is back, as beautiful and as damaged as ever...and she wants a relationship with her daughter. She says she's changed, but Finley's heart has been burned once too often for her to trust easily. But is her reluctance to forgive really about Sloane or worry over losing what she loves the most?"--

"After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything bad happens to me - it's Evan. Promise me you'll take Maya and run. Promise me." So Letty grabs her sister's Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four-year-old...

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"A perfect read for lovers of Antoine Laurain's The Red Notebook, Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove." —Library Journal, starred review
"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul." —Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop
A delightful gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and finding...

Estranged from the sister who refused to testify against an abusive husband, Clare pursues a quiet life as a nature blogger in Manhattan only to be approached by her niece, Grit, with whom she confronts a painful shared history.

"Months have passed since evil boss The Pitbull stole a dragon's egg from Flynn and Paddy's paradise island. By now, it should have hatched. But when he discovers that it's nothing more than an egg-shaped rock, The Pitbull flies into a terrible rage and plots revenge. Will Flynn and Paddy be able to stop him this time? And why is Briar--The Pitbull's niece--helping them?"--Back cover.

Do paintings talk back to you? Auntie Luce is from Haiti and her paintings always talk vibrantly about Haiti today and of days gone by. Her niece comes to visit the island and through art, she learns the history and heroes of a country ravaged by revolution, but brightened by everyday people who balance fruit baskets on their heads, sell water ice by the pink cathedral or ride on painted tap-tap buses. Auntie Luce explains that she paints what she...

When his brother's widow asks for his help in finding his kidnapped niece, Sherman Knowles, once known as a fearsome gunslinger, comes out of retirement to rescue her before it's too late.