Adult

Filled with grief, Jules Belleno rarely leaves the house since her husband’s death while on duty as a police officer. But one day, when she ventures out to the local grocery store, Jules bumps into a fellow customer...and recognizes him as her favorite author. That’s the last thing she remembers --- until she wakes up in a strange room, the victim of a kidnapping. What she discovers will change everything she believed about her husband’s death, her career, and her faith.

In this riveting conclusion to Stephen White’s Alan Gregory series, the Boulder psychologist is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. Instead, he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal from those who have been closest to him.

As U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James rushes an abandoned baby to the only clinic in the area, a storm strikes with unexpected fury. Esther Hanson, who runs a second-rate clinic, struggles to help her patients during the storm. The event triggers a long-suppressed memory, and Esther must come face to face with the reality of her past and learn to forgive herself. Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change.

Working hard to develop a new Amish community outside of Unity, Maine, Rhoda Byler is fully committed to rehabilitating an orchard with business partner Samuel King. But an impulsive decision has created an unexpected strain in her relationship with her beau, Samuel’s brother, Jacob, threatening plans for the orchard. As Rhoda uses her gift to unpack an old secret with her Englisch neighbors, it is not her beau but an unlikely ally who cheers her on.

María Dolz eats breakfast every morning in the same café as an elegant husband and wife with whom she has never spoken. She knows nothing about them, not even their names. When they fail to show up one morning, she reads in the newspaper later that day that the man has been murdered, the victim of an apparently random attack. THE INFATUATIONS is a brilliant meditation on fate and the vagaries of desire.

When Mitchell van Leuven captures Esme Garland’s heart, life seems truly glorious. Before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, however, he ends their relationship. He eventually recants his criticism, and his passion and promises are hard to resist. But if Esme gives him a second chance, will she, like the struggling book­store at which she works, lose more than she can handle?

Kate is ready to put her city-dwelling past behind her when she marries Joe Krause and moves to an Iowa farm. But life on the farm isn't as idyllic as she'd hoped.As Kate struggles to find her place in the small community, she begins to realize that her husband and his family are not who she thought they were.

Iris Crane’s tranquil life is shattered when a letter summons memories from her bittersweet past: her first love, her best friend, and the tragedy that changed everything.