Adult

Utina, Florida is a small, down-at-heels southern town about to meet the tide of an economic growth that it hasn't seen in decades. The Bravos, a local family held together in equal measure by love, unspoken blame, and tenuously brokered truces, have been complacent with the stagnant ways of the sleepy town. So when opportunity knocks, tempers ignite, secrets are unearthed, and each of the Bravos is forced to confront the tragedies of their shared past.

Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond sisterhood or friendship. But haunted by childhood experiences with father figures and further damaged by being raped as a young adult, Cara descended into depression, drugs and a shocking early death. A few years later, Christa read that when an identical twin dies, 50 percent of the time the surviving twin dies within two years. First, Christa fought to stop her sister's downward spiral; suddenly, she was struggling to keep herself alive.

Three years ago, John Schwartz received a call: his son, Joe, was in the hospital following a failed suicide attempt. After coming out to his classmates, Joe’s disclosure was greeted with dismay and confusion. Hours later, he overdosed on pills. ODDLY NORMAL is Schwartz’s personal attempt to address his family’s own struggles within a culture that is changing fast, but not fast enough.

A richly imagined novel of family, love, and science set in modern-day London.

Christopher Tietjens is torn between his unfaithful wife and his young suffragette mistress. When he leaves to fight in World War I he knows that the battlefield can only mirror what is going on at home. When he returns he must make a choice between the two women that will forever change his life. 

Antonio is six when Ultima comes to New Mexico to stay with his family. It is Ultima who introduces him to herbs and magic and a spirituality outside the strict bonds of Catholicism. Ultima brought him into the world and it is she that will nurture the birth of his soul.

Lena Duchannes has a secret and a curse that have haunted her family for generations.  Ethan Wate is haunted by his dreams of a girl he has never met. When the two of them are drawn together and they discover their connection their tiny Southern town that never has surprises just might have at least one. 

R is a zombie. He shuffles around doing the zombie thing: grunting, hungering after flesh, and...dreaming? That is what sets R apart. He still has thoughts and dreams. While devouring a teenage boy's brain, he experiences the boy's memories and makes an unexpected choice to form a friendship with the boy's girlfriend, Julie. R's decision to protect Julie changes R's world and may be the key to saving the world. 

Ernst Hess, missing and presumed dead, regains consciousness to find himself stuck in a hospital bed on a strange ward in a foreign country. He must do what he needs to do to get his life back and to finish the job he has been doing for decades. Harry believes he has already stopped Hess. When he finds out that the war criminal has somehow survived, Harry must kill Hess again --- even if it means putting his life and the lives of those that matter to him on the line.