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After her father’s death, eleven-year-old Rowan Graham wrestles with depression. Carolina, her mother, looks for a way to ease her daughter’s grief and decides to adopt another dog. Rowan chooses a wolfhound-deerhound mix and believes she and the pup, Zephyr, communicate through mind-pictures, a phenomenon that her mom rejects. While vacationing, the family is embroiled in a multi-car accident; Zephyr is pitched from the van and bolts into the wilds of central Oregon. Medics airlift comatose Rowan to Portland for head trauma care. Best-selling author Moss Westbury is haunted by devastating nightmares. A veteran of the Afghanistan conflict, he writes…

Imagine feeling like an outsider. Now imagine feeling like an outsider in your own family. Lee Oliver Winekoop is born into extreme wealth, but despite his near genius IQ, he struggles with even the simplest endeavors. His mother's passive parenting style and frequent absences from their lakefront mansion leave him in the care of nannies as a child even when she's home, making Lee feel unwanted and alone, and his father's inexplicable contempt toward him only makes matters worse. When Lee is twenty-six, his mother's favorite uncle dies and leaves him a sizable inheritance—an inheritance with some bizarre strings attached.…

In 1933 the Great Depression and Dust Bowl brought devastation to thousands of people. For thirteen-year-old Sammy Larkin, it made him an orphan. Refusing to allow the state to take his seven-year-old sister, Birdie and himself from their farm, he decides to do the impossible—live as if his parents were still alive. Holding on to the pretense, Sammy and Birdie learn the art of lying and the terrible burden it carries. Fighting the elements and finding enough food to keep the hunger away, he discovers a strength he never knew he owned along with a mighty big dose of fear.…

As she breaks 200 pounds, and not in a good way, 29-year-old Rita finds herself married to a self-focused widower with two difficult kids and a mother who almost makes Rita's own mother look like a role model - which is really saying something. Graham's first wife, being dead, just keeps getting better and better in everyone's memories while Rita just gets fatter and more aggravated. She's tried every diet in the book, but it's not until a family crisis forces her out the door that she discovers that the easiest way to thin is to get rid of the…

The personification of paradox, Ruby was a card-carrying nerd who played in a rock band—a Sunday go-to-church preacher’s kid, with tattoos down her thigh and a doobie in her pocket. Adept at knowing when to keep her mouth shut and her head down, Ruby could also speak her mind when the situation required it. Sometimes, coping meant creating stories, into which she would climb, when reality impinged. For Ruby, finding her way past the loss of one parent and the condemnation of another, hinged on her acceptance of the very thing that had created these challenges. And what a mean…

Citizen Cárdenas is a story about people caught in the cross-hairs of gentrification. On the one hand is the protagonist of this story, Cuban immigrant, Vietnam veteran, and ex-gang member Jesus “Gato” Cárdenas, who at times becomes homeless through no fault of his own. Others, like second generation Greeks, George and Alexia Demas, homeowners with professional careers, can afford to stay but are torn because many friends were forced to move and the newcomers are harder to get to know. During one bout of homelessness, the Demas’s let Gato stay in their home until his government assistance is reinstated. Later…

CAN WE EVER ESCAPE THE PAST THAT MADE US? When Jo Devereux returns to Ireland after an absence of 20 years, the last thing she expects is to end up writing a family history. Growing up in Mucknamore in the 1970s, with her village riven by the divides of a previous time, Jo found family pride brought her nothing but heartbreak and loss. Now, unearthing seventy-year old secrets of love and revenge in a time of war, and a killing that has haunted three generations, she begins to understand why. In revealing astonishing truths about her mother and grandmother, Jo…

Passionate, free-spirited Deborah has finally found peace and a fulfilling relationship in her adopted city of Granada – but when she is seriously injured in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, it is her sister Alice who is forced to face the consequences of a deception they have maintained for ten years. At Deborah’s home in Granada, Alice waits, ever more fearful. Will her sister live or die? And how long should she stay when each day brings the risk of what she most dreads, a confrontation with Deborah’s Moroccan ex-lover, Hassan? At stake is all she holds dear... Secrets…

Phantasmagoria noun A sequence of real or imagined images like that seen in a dream. –The Oxford English Dictionary This book is a compendium of moments, a gallery of dreams, a collection of snapshots from reality and fairyland and the misty lands between. Welcome to the Phantasmagoria.

Nearly a hundred and thirty years after the death of composer Richard Wagner in Venice, antiques dealer Nic Manton is led to a piece of jewellery. Hearsay and tradition say the valuable pendant bears a secret about the composer's last days. Manton feels it provides a solution to his precarious finances. With no idea of its meaning or provenance, he can't understand why the pendant aggravates rather than solves his problems. Its apparent owner is beautiful but erratic. She leads him from Venice to Malta on a chase that becomes more perplexing and dangerous than the dealer in bric-a-brac bargains…