Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye. But the family reunion opens old wounds. David's only daughter, Lauren, never recovered from the unsolved murder of her high school best friend Zoe Delgado fourteen years earlier — or the suspicion that her brother, Tristan, was behind it. Before David breathes his last, Tristan's pregnant wife, Vivian, disappears and the Major Crimes Unit is called in to help find her. With Kala Stonechild stuggling to reconnect with her foster niece, and Woodhouse making trouble for Staff Sergeant Jacques Rouleau, tensions are running high on the team, but they must put their personal problems aside when a woman's strangled body is found frozen on the Rideau Trail.With a winter storm sweeping the shores of Lake Ontario, the team uncovers unspeakable betrayals that give more than one... Views: 28
Wise and funny, touching and true, What We're Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We're teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We're teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. We're teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends who've known you longer than you've known yourself, and the difference between zombies and vampires. We're teaching them about sex, although everyone would be a lot happier if the subject had never come up... Meet the married Dads, the divorced Dads, the widowed Dads and the gay Dads; the gamblers, the firemen, the bankers, the nurses, the soldiers and the milkmen. They're trying to guide their sons through the foothills of childhood into the bewildering uplands of adulthood. But it's hard to know if they're doing it right. Or what their sons' mothers think... Views: 28
Kelly Flynn has been enjoying motherhood and avoiding murder, but when a friend's life is cut short, she enlists the Lambspun knitters to catch a heartless killer in the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Only Skein Deep. Kelly is happily busy with her son, Jack, now a rambunctious four-year-old preschooler. Jack keeps his mom on her toes and drinking all the coffee she can handle at Pete's Porch Café. Kelly's friendly waitress Julie is hoping to become an accountant. She makes sure she keeps Kelly caffeinated and up-to-date on her career progress.Kelly splits her free time between Pete's and Lambspun, where her fellow knitters love hearing all about Jack's latest exploits. They've also been taking a trip down memory lane, reminiscing about crimes that Kelly had a hand in solving over the years. But the Lambspun crew is horrified when a very present-day murder occurs in their midst—and Julie is the victim. With her... Views: 28
From the author who brought you A Thousand Boy Kisses comes the new emotional novel,A Wish For Us.A story of music. A story of healing. A story of love conquering all.Nineteen-year- old Cromwell Dean is the rising star of electronic dance music. Thousands ofpeople adore him. But no one knows him. No one sees the color of his heart.Until the girl in the purple dress. She sees through the walls he has built to the empty darknesswithin.When Cromwell leaves behind the gray skies of England to study music in the South Carolinaheat, the last thing he expects is to see her again. And he certainly doesn’t expect that she’llstay in his head like a song on repeat.Bonnie Farraday lives for music. She lets every note into her heart, and she doesn’t understandhow someone as talented as Cromwell can avoid doing the same. He’s hiding from his past, andshe knows it. She tries to stay away from him, but something keeps calling her back.Bonnie is the burst of color in Cromwell’s darkness. He’s the beat that makes her heart skip.But when a shadow falls over Bonnie, it’s up to Cromwell to be her light, in the only way heknows how. He must help her find the lost song in her fragile heart. He must keep her strongwith a symphony only he can compose.A symphony of hope.A symphony of love.A symphony of them. Views: 28
When one of McKenna’s tenants loses everything in a work-at-home scam, he’s forced to help her go after the scammer or evict her. He doesn’t see eviction as an option, so he turns to his PI-wannabe friend Chance Logan for help. Soon, McKenna and Chance find themselves caught up in a murder investigation in a case with no clues, no suspects, and a string of not-so-helpful witnesses. Views: 28
