Abby Knightley is planning to start a new life in Wishing Springs. Just not like this. Before she even makes it into town she almost runs down a steer and his cowboy in the middle of the road, gets her car stuck in a ditch, and faints after seeing just a drop of...
Performance Nutrition for Your Young AthleteKids have their own nutritional needs—especially athletic kids. Yet most young athletes aren't eating properly to compete. Even if they're on a "healthy" diet, it's often supplemented by convenient but empty calories that...
When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother’s ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission, Bubbles convinces her hippie daughter Feather to accompany...
Raised thinking she was a princess, Alexandrina Fosgrave, Rina, has little trust for people or their petty promises. What she wants, what she needs is a job and the ability to depend on herself. It's awefully hard to get a job teaching with no references and no...
Nita Hadonfield, very close to being spinster sister to the Earl of Bellefonte, Nick, completely disregards her station and is barely tolerated by her family. Quite possibly it's because they really don't understand Nita and she doesn't understand them. Nita had been...
One year ago, Marta Hughes won a purse-choking sum of money at a local casino. She never returned home. Her body was discovered in a ditch twelve miles from her home; her car was back in her driveway. Linnet Isherwood cannot let her friend's unsolved murder...
Once Billy Fox starts looking for trouble, he discovers that—in Chicago—trouble's under every footstep. Home from the war, Billy Fox leaves Michigan for Chicago, hoping to find his ex-girlfriend, Rita—now another man’s wife. Chicago isn’t a town that takes kindly to...
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and...
It sounds like some work and mostly play when United Life and Casualty sends its investigator Dan Mahoney to Florida. Five greyhounds—all heavily insured—were lost in a fire at the Daytona dog track. So simple. Five dogs dead by smoke inhalation, bagged, tagged, and...