Even the most painful paths can be guided to divine destinations... A single father and former Army Ranger, Ken Holbrook struggles to reconcile his resolute faith with immense grief. When Stacey James, a skittish but alluring newcomer, crosses Ken’s path and immediately bonds with Ginny, his young daughter, his world tilts further off balance. Slowly, Ken softens to Stacey as he realizes her poise in the face of hidden atrocity and the ease he feels in her presence. Stacey’s trust doesn’t come easily though, even if she is drawn to Ken’s peaceful, observant nature. As their lives overlap and they come to need one another in unsettling ways, Ken and Stacey must face the demons of their past. With unwavering support from the Holbrook family, the two discover their roads, though jarring, have been directed to the same destination: each other. While many tout the phrase “everything happens for a reason,” Ken and Stacey make deeper meaning within their choices and circumstances. Freedom from their emotional shackles will require forsaking the belief we must be fully healed to be fully embraced. If they can summon the courage, divine love could carry them around an oncoming sharp turn and through arduous, unforeseen territory. But if they can’t, their chance at soul-deep connection might feel lost forever. Sensual and nuanced, ALL MY ROADS is a story of holding heartache in one hand and joy in the other; of learning we are never outside the realm of beauty and healing.

The Holiday meets The Parent Trap in this clever comedic whirlwind brimming with romance, and just a touch of magic. Estranged sisters Jamie and Siri are quarter-life crisis-ing: hard. With adulthood breathing down their necks, suddenly their promising career aspirations feel way out of reach, and romance — completely implausible. After thirteen years apart, on opposite coasts, the sisters run into each other at a nature retreat. Desperate for a change of pace, they decide to go home in each other’s stead to see how the other half lives. It doesn't take long to realize: swapping lives might be more than they bargained for. Turns out, pretending to be a sister you hardly know can really complicate your previously non-existent love life. Navigating their new surroundings proves to be a precarious task, but turns out there’s no better way to learn about yourself than by trying to live as someone else.

VORTEX RISING This third part of the trilogy again features Mark Watson, who appeared in AMBITIONS END and WINNERS NEVER LOSE, but he is now considerably older than in the first two books; he has been knighted for services to industry; is Chairman of several companues as well as a non-executive director of two Charities. He continues to wheel and deal in the cut throat world of big business, something at which he excels. However, secretly recruited for a top secret project to run alongside his demanding business activities, now for the first time in his career he becomes enmeshed in politics at the highest level as the worlds of Monarchy and Government intermingle and clash. Simultaneously managing the project along with his demanding business roles which involve takeovers and sell-offs, negotiations with Chinese bankers and Russian businessmen the action takes him to America and Russia. At the same time while continuing to cheat on his wife and a succession of girlfriends, Mark needs to draw on all his acumen, tough approach to life and innate desire to succeed as the story builds to its climax.

Even Trolls Love Pasties looks back to life in Ann Arbor during the 1970s and two freshmen at the University of Michigan as they move through at world of young loves, new friendships, drugs, music, politics, Wolverine football and the occasional ghost. After encountering the slings and arrows that life throws their way, the two embark on a road trip to Daytona Beachvia Seattle.

Truth plays a central role in this dramatic tale featuring an obscure glory-seeking poet and a young admirer, Brett Thomas, whom he maneuvers into helping him up the ladder to fame. Obsessed with the poet at risk of all other relationships, and spinning on to his own rung of honor as Harvard Professor and Biographer of Nathaniel Hightower, America's Great Poet, Thomas gives to the world a romantic vision of Hightower, omitting the dark side of his personality and family secrets that haunt him. When a stunning betrayal leads him to withdraw the biography, only then does Thomas set out to tell, bitterly at first, then with the compassion all human struggle deserves, Hightower's true story and his own, this time in novel form, this novel, Notes to Thomas.

Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche. Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. The Novels and Novellas ALMAYER’S FOLLY AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS LORD JIM THE INHERITORS TYPHOON HEART OF DARKNESS ROMANCE NOSTROMO THE SECRET AGENT UNDER WESTERN EYES CHANCE VICTORY THE SHADOW-LINE THE ARROW OF GOLD THE RESCUE THE NATURE OF A CRIME THE ROVER SUSPENSE The Short Stories THE BLACK MATE THE IDIOTS THE LAGOON AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS THE RETURN KARAIN: A MEMORY YOUTH FALK AMY FOSTER TO-MORROW THE END OF THE TETHER GASPAR RUIZ THE INFORMER THE BRUTE AN ANARCHIST THE DUEL IL CONDE A SMILE OF FORTUNE THE SECRET SHARER FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES PRINCE ROMAN THE PLANTER OF MALATA THE PARTNER THE INN OF THE TWO WITCHES BECAUSE OF THE DOLLARS THE WARRIOR'S SOUL THE TALE The Memoirs THE MIRROR OF THE SEA A PERSONAL RECORD Collected Essays