An infant is left on the doorstep of Saint Michael’s Orphanage in the winter of 1936 with only an engraved medallion to mark his identity.

Marvin Saint Michael grows up under the watchful gaze of the nuns and priests, yet his upbringing is anything but loving. Marvin learns from an early age to keep his mouth shut, to obey, and to refrain from questioning the authority figures that surround him. For when one disobeys, severe repercussions are handed out…

When Marvin is fourteen years old, a girl enters Saint Michael’s after a tragic accident took the lives of her parents. Eva Murphy captivates him. She isn’t like any other girl that Marvin has ever met. He is irrevocably drawn to her, and after mere moments with her at his side, Marvin knows his life is about to change.

Then, chaos breaks out at Saint Michael’s, and Eva is thrust into the middle of it. Marvin knows he and Eva must escape the confines of the orphanage before it’s too late. But where have the nuns taken Eva? How will he find her? And if they succeed in breaking free, can they possibly make their way in the world with only the clothes on their backs… and each other?

Spanning seven decades, This Funny Life is a tale of courage, resilience, and hope. And at its core, it is a story of forgiveness and acceptance of one's past actions: actions that inevitably alter the course of not only one's own life but the lives of those one loves.

I woke up this morning, the day of Barbara’s funeral, and I fell out of bed.

And so begins the tale of one-hundred-and-one-year-old Martha Mayhew. Born in southern New Hampshire in the early 1920s, Martha meets her new neighbor Barbara Brown at the tender age of three and a half. The two girls learn immediately that they are bound to each other, and as the years progress, their friendship blossoms.

But though Martha’s home is loving and supportive, she learns quickly that Barbara’s is not. Why does Mr. Brown do the things he does? And why, too, does Barbara’s older brother, Robert, make Martha feel so internally uncomfortable?

With Barbara at her side, Martha grows into a young woman, falls in love, and maneuvers a nuanced life filled with both tenderness and heartbreak—from the Great Depression to World War Two to Vietnam and to the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s.

When you are bonded to another as Martha is to Barbara, you feel their happiness and sorrow as well as your own—explicitly and undeniably. They are intertwined, and it is together that lessons are absorbed and hearts learn to heal.

Is it possible to transcend the boundaries of the life you were born into, and if so, what will you sacrifice?

Susan Dubois is the youngest member of a poor French-Canadian Catholic family residing in a small and uniform central New Hampshire town in the 1950s. From a young age, this God of her parents’ fills her with extreme trepidation.



Susan has been taught that, as a child, it is your duty to obey your parents—never are you to question authority. Yet, when her father loosens the belt on his slight frame—reeking of alcohol and cigarettes—to use against her beloved brother, Charlie, Susan is engulfed with heart-wrenching confliction.



Charlie is four years her senior and has taken it upon himself to protect his sister to the best of his ability. Are his efforts sufficient in sheltering her from their father’s ferocity? Who will protect him?



Immerse yourself in Susan’s world as she becomes a woman, learning what it truly means to embrace humanity while discovering how circumstances and experiences, as well as the people placed into one’s life, can break us—or save us.

What would you do if you were forced to endure the unimaginable?

Sam Carson knows something isn’t right with his wife. Dates confuse her, numbers confuse her, and she’s become emotionally aloof. When she leaves her classroom of kindergarten children to take an impromptu walk, Sam understands his wife needs help.

Depression. That’s the diagnosis Annie’s primary care provider gives. She’s put on medication and sent home but Annie’s symptoms only increase in severity. She’s swearing, shocking people with her uninhibited statements. She gets lost when driving, is overeating, and has an unhealthy child-like obsession with the neighborhood dogs. She no longer tells her family that she loves them, no longer smiles and hugs them fiercely.

This can't truly be depression. Can it?

Interspersed with flashbacks of the life the Carson family once led—filled with love, hope, and promise—Little Things is a captivating tale both heartfelt and heartbreaking that speaks of how one family copes in the midst of an unthinkable diagnosis - focusing not on Annie herself, but on those that love her: a husband who is struggling to maintain his sanity, his finances, his home, and his job; a mother suffering the deterioration of a daughter after already having lost her husband; and a teenage son struggling with a plethora of emotions and eventually coming of age through the unimaginable.

A man on the cusp of despair.

A woman who can save him.

Two lives entwine.

Reeling from an intense conversation with her mother, Grace Harrison makes a momentous decision, one that will inevitably alter the course of her future.

Norman Straight’s father isn’t well. Alzheimer’s, they say. He’s become a shell of his former self, and it’s up to Norman to care for him.

Two people seemingly separate in every way collide in the third book in theGrace and Ally series. Just when Grace starts to believe that the pieces of her shattered life are coming together again, Norman Straight will make her question it all.

Beginning where Grace and Ally ended, Surprise Me is a tale of one woman’s attempt to rectify her past mistakes and her daughter’s struggle with the demons she thought she had banished.

Ally has altered Grace's life so completely, showing her a love she never expected. She now has Evangeline. She has Chase. Grace is happy, content. She’s laid her past rest. Or so she thinks.

Until her mother shows up on her doorstep after twenty-six years of absence.

Donna left her daughter when Grace was in the eighth grade. Without a word, without a sound. With no explanation. And now with her unexpected and shocking return into Grace’s life, Grace’s memories, her hurt and angst, flood to the surface, and she’s left struggling through a plethora of emotions.

What caused Donna to leave her family on that fateful night twenty-six years ago? What brought her to Grace’s doorstep now? Will she ever be able to explain her choices to her daughter, and if so, will Grace even listen…?

When Grace Clarke’s husband walks out the door after twelve years of marriage, Grace is left a shell of her former self: defeated, deflated, depressed. A year passes in which Grace’s days are monotonous and miserable. Until a chance meeting on a park bench changes her life forever…

Ally Cummings is everything Grace is not: extroverted, upbeat, a live-for-the-moment type of woman, and although Grace is often uncomfortable with new people and new situations, she quickly feels different with Ally. She finds herself confiding in this woman, divulging things about herself that not many people know. Grace is surprised at how quickly her relationship with Ally transforms from a chance meeting to the very best of friendships.

And then something extremely unexpected occurs in Ally’s life. Something that will affect Grace’s relationship with her. Something that will inevitably alter their future forever…

A story of love, trust, and courage, Grace and Ally speaks to the heart of what true friendship entails in the midst of the unforeseen, leaving its readers to turn its pages with anticipation until the very end.

One decision can change your life forever, change the lives of those around you forever. And you can never take it back…

Charlotte McAllister has just moved to Spaulding Lane, a cul-de-sac in a quaint, well-to-do New Hampshire town, where she is welcomed with open arms by three women and fellow mothers who reside there. Marni is a veterinarian with a bright, intelligent, and kind preteen son. Rose is a timid, reserved mother and homemaker. And Nancy…

Nancy is beautiful, well-dressed, always groomed, and seems to lead a privileged, put-together life with her five-year-old daughter and cardiac surgeon husband. Her enormous social media following corroborates this, doesn’t it?

There’s just something about Nancy that Charlotte can’t quite decipher. She’s holding something back.

And then Nancy is pulled into a downward spiral of torment in which secrets are revealed that inevitably test her family and her friendships with Charlotte, Marni, and Rose.

Her past has caught up to her present.

Captivating contemporary women's fiction about love, family, best friends and forgiveness—forgiveness from others, and forgiveness of oneself.

With her world shattered in an instant, can Marni ever regain the life she once knew...



Marni Westings has a close, intimate, and loving relationship with her sensitive twelve-year-old son, Xavier, and she knows how fortunate she is. Not every twelve-year-old boy would cuddle with his mother, would they? Not every boy would ask for his mother’s advice, or enjoyed such simple pleasures as walking his dog or exploring the wildlife in his neighborhood.

But when Xavier’s behaviors change, when he pulls back, Marni knows something is amiss. After speaking with her best friends, Marni believes the proximity of his teenage years and his changing body are the cause of her son’s behaviors. That is, until she finds her son slowly raising his father’s gun to his temple.

At that moment, her life is forever altered. Everything Marni thought she knew about her relationship with her son is shattered instantaneously.

Marni attempts to traverse her world, tries to learn all she can about what brought her son to that fateful moment with her best friends ever by her side, offering comfort and compassion.

A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful novel about the love a mother has for her son, Marni’s story will leave you wondering what is truly going on in the minds of those we hold so dear.

A mother's story about strength and survival...



Rose Hayes was always confident about the course her life would take. Married at a young age, Rose was convinced being a wife and mother were her callings and her duties. Now, fifteen years later, her life and relationships have changed immeasurably and Rose is left questioning everything she has ever believed about herself and her very purpose.


In the third and final book in the Secrets of Spaulding Lane series, Rose, Charlotte, Marni, and Nancy prove that love prevails and true friends open our hearts to trust—and fill our souls.

It was a Thursday evening when the police came for her son...
One word spoken. A word that held an abundance of meaning. A word that sent Brooke Weatherbee’s head spinning with unwanted memories…

Her sixteen-year-old son, Jace, was being accused of rape. And when Brooke learned who the accuser was, it sent her over the precipice. Madison Crawford. Brooke’s best friend’s daughter.

Jenny Crawford was angry. No, not angry. Incensed. How could Jace have done this to her daughter? She’d known this boy since the tender age of ten, when he and his family first moved in down the street. He had spent countless hours in her home with Maddy, both alone and with their friends. She’d thought she knew him. But she couldn’t have known him, right? Not really. Not if he was capable of such atrocity, of causing so much torment and pain. Jenny knew one thing, though: she was going to make Jace Weatherbee pay.

Piper was confused. Confused, hurt, angry. She’d never felt so many concurrent emotions in all of her fifteen years of life. Never. Jace? Could he really have done such a thing? But of course he had. Maddy was Piper’s best friend, had been since the girls were in kindergarten. Piper loved Maddy with her entire being, and she’d borne witness to the unbearable pain the assault caused. But when she looked at Jace, she was filled anew with confusion and sadness. And she was left to question all the details of that fateful night that had changed their lives so irrevocably. Because although Piper loved Maddy, she loved Jace too.

One fateful night.

Three points of view.

Families altered.

Friendships shattered.

Nobody is left unscathed…

Join best friends Paige and Preston on their final trip through a book in the Room of Reveries.

Paige’s friendship with Preston is just as strong as ever, she’s becoming closer to Riley, and she adores her father’s girlfriend, Moira. Paige knows that it’s time to say goodbye to the Room of Reveries.

But what will Preston say when she breaks the news to him?

And where will the Room of Reveries send them on their final adventure?

A heartwarming conclusion to a middle-grade series that transports kids to amazing, imaginative lands, but also grounds them in today’s world where friends and family generate the greatest adventures of all...

Paige and Preston embark on the adventure of a lifetime in the sixth book in the Room of Reveries series…

Preston’s wildest dreams are about to come true—literally—when he finds that he and Paige have landed in the middle of a desert. Enormous pyramids loom all around, and an ancient Egyptian city is sprawling in the distance.

But this miraculous dream world becomes a nightmare when the best friends learn that the pharaoh and his people suffer from an ancient curse cast by an evil witch.

Along with the pharaoh’s advisor, a midnight black cat named Coalman, and his adorable quokka friend, Queenie, Paige and Preston set out to stop the curse before it’s too late—before they and all the people of Egypt are under its spell...

Another amazing adventure is on the horizon for best friends Paige and Preston…

When Paige is sucked into a book in the Room of Reveries and finds she’s landed on a soft, fluffy cloud, she’s shocked.

Could the book have transported her into a dream? One of the dreams in which she had spent time with her mother—talking, laughing, smiling, loving…

But Paige is soon to learn that this world—although in the clouds—is not one of her dreams. It is very much real.

And miraculous!

Join Paige and Preston as they explore the clouds, make new friends, eat their fill of candy, and meet a marvelous creature Paige never thought she’d ever encounter…

Join Paige and Preston as they explore a new land in the fourth book in the Room of Reveries series…

There’s a new boy at school. Riley is funny and intelligent, but he’s also academic competition for Preston. Paige likes Riley a lot. But Preston hasn’t been so welcoming…

Holding these new feelings about Riley inside, Paige and Preston head to the Room of Reveries, where they land in a world that looks so much like their own!

But the best friends soon learn that it is anything but…

A young witch, two nasty sisters, animals galore, a mystery to solve, and apple pie…

Paige and Preston are bound to have an incredible adventure!

Another incredible adventure is on the horizon…

Paige and Preston are sucked into a third book in the Room of Reveries, and when they finally realize where they are, Preston thinks it’s a dream come true!

They’ve landed in medieval times!

But trouble is stirring in the land. The duke believes a mysterious creature named Esmerelda is wreaking havoc in his village. He’s determined to have his knights capture her. But his eighteen-year-old daughter, Elena, knows Esmerelda is innocent. She instills the help of Paige and Preston to prove her father wrong.

Along with Elena, her friend, Mack, and the castle’s wizened apothecary, Rickety Rackety Roo, Paige and Preston set off to find out who the true culprit is.

But they can’t do it without the help of the Courageous Knight!

Join Paige and Preston as they embark on their second journey through a magical book in the Room of Reveries.

After visiting Fairville, Paige is shocked by a surprise conversation with her father. Soon thereafter—and filled with confusion—she and Preston head to the Room of Reveries. They fall into a book that takes them to a land from the past, and what they see makes Paige tremble.

But Paige soon learns that things aren’t what they seem in this glorious new world she’s become a part of. And once again, friends come in all shapes and sizes—and species.

When she returns home, Paige confronts her father about their startling conversation.

She takes a deep breath, and then hopes for the best...

The first book in a captivating children's fantasy series perfect for kids 7-12!

Join Paige and Preston as they travel to worlds created by their own imaginations, where adventures await and new friends are made. In addition to having the time of her life, these new friends and adventures, as well as the antics of her best friend, help Paige deal with unimaginable heartache at home...

Wistful, imaginative, twelve-year-old Paige Turner has discovered a secret room. A room full of ancient leather-bound books that have no words but hold worlds of adventures.

Fairville: it’s an ever-changing land of wonder that Paige is miraculously transported to. A place of fairies, chipmunk-riding bunnies, and food that tastes like anything your heart desires. It’s a place where Paige befriends Grip, a kindred spirit with spiky black hair and a penchant for shiny black clothing, and the mysterious head-fairy Glira.

Paige leaves Fairville contented. Until she learns her friends have disappeared...

Together with her Snickers-loving, ever-disheveled best friend Preston, Paige embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to save her captured fairy friends from mysterious nightmarish creatures. Along the way she meets Dawson, a fairy with translucent skin and long, shiny white hair, and Your Redness, a vainglorious warrior-cardinal.

If the friends fail in rescuing Grip, Glira, and Fairville from the clutches of the creatures, they’ll be stuck in this enchanted world forever...