Every child is unique, but Hattie Taylor is a bit more unique than some others. After her mother died Hattie was living with her father and his friend in a mining community. After her father died other arrangements for her were made. Readers first meet Hattie in 1899 Read more...
Anne, Katy, and Richard. They were a family once until they weren't. For reasons of his own, Richard left his wife Anne and his daughter Katy for another woman. With wonderful memories of fun summers, Anne bought her grandparent's house and she and Katy moved there Read more...
Zoe has a lot on her plate. She is an editor for an established music magazine whose sales are declining. She has had this position longer than any of her relationships lasted. She has to score an interview with a reclusive music icon in order to boost revenue. Her Read more...
Rachel needs a job and a place to live. Her deceased mother's former employer, Geraldine Withers, needs a housekeeper. The position comes with a salary and room and board. Hired on the spot, Rachel is relieved. However, the position quickly becomes more than she Read more...
Until now, I had never read a story narrated in the voice of a dog. In this case, this is a very special dog. Meet Gatz, a twenty-two-pound border collie who was adopted by a person he calls The Man. They both fell in love with Read more...
Summer Merriweather's career is shaky. She is in England doing research when she learns her mother, Hildy, died unexpectedly of a heart attack. Summer returns to Brigid's Island where she was raised to settle her mother's estate. Something isn't right. Her mother Read more...
From the beginning of the book readers sense something bad is going to happen and it does. Faye Gallagher, a widow with five children, has had enough of Ellen, her eleven year old daughter. She stops the car five miles from home and demands that she get Read more...
She goes by the name of Lizzie now. She is married to a widower who has a young daughter. They don't know what her real given name is or about the family she walked away from three years ago. No matter, because Lizzie loves her Read more...
What was supposed to be a festive night for soon to be married Amy Webber and Richard Muir turned out to be anything but when an uninvited guest is murdered at the home of the host. The host of the party is a likely suspect for a variety Read more...
Kaylee Sloan needs a change of scenery. Her beloved mother has died and Kaylee is living in her house with memories everywhere. She's a suspense writer and has a contract to finish a book, but isn't making much progress and suffering from writer's block. She decides Read more...
Twenty years ago a store was robbed of $500,000. A pact was made to let one of the thieves hide the money for six months after which it would be equally divided. Things didn't go as planned at all. Amongst other happenings, the money Read more...
Wakefield Manor is not just any house. Located on the edge of a swamp where terrifying things have happened, it has twenty-seven rooms, multiple staircases and endless hallways. The current residents are Agnes who is rumored to be a witch, her pregnant daughter Elizabeth and her Read more...
ONCE UPON A TWELFTH NIGHT, a Haute Ton Reader Society Anthology, consists of seven stories written by different authors. Every year, the Earl and Countess of Stapleton host a Twelfth Night event which includes a variety of diversions Read more...
Best friends since college, Robin, Mackenzie, and Lily knew each other quite well. Or, so they thought. Each was, perhaps in part, shaped by their secrets. Even though they are bound together for different reasons, their loyalty to each other is strong. And in this captivating story that Read more...
Little Falls, population of 72. One might think that with such a small population there might not be much going on. Such thinking would be wrong--bad things do happen there. Camille, a former medic who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, has seen more than her share of horrors Read more...
Justine may not have been destined to attend a private boarding school, but she made it happen anyway. She did not come from money, but she managed to obtain a full scholarship to the Griswold Academy. It is there that she met Eve who was a child Read more...
It sounded wonderful. Kate and her closest friends and their families would spend a week together in a luxurious villa in France. The women have known each other since college and have stayed friends for twenty years. They came together with high hopes and expectations for Read more...