His Second Mistake
Rachel Underwood seems to have it all — power, wealth, and a spotless reputation. But beneath the surface, she’s a killer hunting men who escape justice. When her closest friend, Detective Hannah Novak, begins investigating, the lines between loyalty and good and evil begin to crumble. His Second Mistake is a psychological thriller about friendship, vengeance, and the price of justice.
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Don’t Say a Word
The ghosts of the past are speaking—but she’s the only one listening.
In this Nancy Drew meets Robert Langdon mystery, a young professor becomes entangled in a historical mystery whose unravelling will have both personal and professional consequences for her.
For fans of historical thrillers and investigative mysteries, DON’T SAY A WORD is a compelling exploration of the lengths people will go to bury the truth—and the courage it takes to uncover it. Will Jill succeed in giving a voice to the silenced, or will the past remain buried forever?
2025 Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Literary Humour
WE CAME FROM AWAY: That Summer on “The Rock”
They say you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. The question is this. If you could pick your family, would YOU choose yours?
MEET ME IN MIAMI: The Sequel to “We Came From Away”
Life may not offer do-overs, but it might offer second chances.
Two women, one man, and a storm of second chances collide in Meet Me in Miami. Dr. Claire Barrett, a world-renowned pediatric surgeon, is determined to win back the ex-husband she should never have let go. Eliza Houlihan Cohen, freshly free from a cheating spouse, thinks Peter O’Brien might be her chance at real love. But when a cruise through the Amazon ends in Miami—and in Claire’s path—their lives entwine in ways neither woman saw coming.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: My Unexpected Adventures in Domesticity
The prequel to “We Came From Away”
Erica Flanagan, uber-feminist and one of the stars of the afternoon television talk show, has honed her on-air bitch persona to perfection. Or so she thought. But Erica is becoming increasingly impatient with the new breed of millennial women who seem to be regressing into homemaker mode. When she finally blows her stack on live television, her boss puts her on a six-month sabbatical. In all her fifty-three years on the planet, workaholic Erica has never had time on her hands. Erica needs a project.
With a burning desire to show all those young, stay-at-home, housewife women a thing or two, Erica embarks on a project to prove to the younger generation of women that they’re wasting their time on meaningless home-based activities—that they need to get a life. And if Erica, who doesn’t have a domestic bone in her body, can do it, she will have won the argument. But she never considered the consequences of the social media backlash.
Between her thirteen-year-old social media-savvy daughter Maddie, a budding filmmaker and the mysterious Betty Crocket, who keeps showing up unannounced, Erica finds herself on a wild domestic adventure and unexpectedly discovers she might not be who she thinks she is.
It All Begins With Goodbye
The almost-but-not-quite-true stories Book 6
It’s been over a year since her father died, and thirteen-year-old Frankie is tired of her mother Charlie, wallowing in her widowhood. Enlisting the help of her aunt, Charlie’s older sister, Evelyn, Frankie stages an intervention designed to propel Charlie off the couch and back into life. Charlie acquiesces to them, embarking on a solo trip to Mallorca in Spain to take a course on making replica Chanel jackets from a Parisian couturier who has made it her life’s work to imitate Coco Chanel.
When Charlie meets her classmates, she realizes they are all on this island for reasons far beyond learning to make a little French jacket. She is soon drawn into a classmate’s wild theory that their teacher is not quite what she appears to be, and Charlie begins to see that reality might not be at all what she thought it was.
On her trip home, Charlie stops in Paris for a few days, where she briefly encounters a mysterious French man in a bookstore. After buying the book he suggests before disappearing, Charlie realizes she has met him somewhere before. When they unexpectedly bump into one another again in Toronto, they are propelled into a journey to figure out where and when that was. With the help of a retired history professor, they find their quest taking them back in time to 1920s Paris and the life of a French painter and an American heiress. Together they discover there may be no line between reality and imagination—and no such thing as time.
And saying goodbye really is the only way to begin.
This is the Way the Story Ends
The almost-but-not-quite-true stories Book 5
When writer Charlie Hudson (CK Hudson to her adoring readers) finished her great-grandmother’s unfinished manuscript and published it, she thought she had the story right. But when she discovers the real people behind the characters in her great-grandmother’s story, Charlie knows she has to listen.
It’s 1989, and Antonia St. John has a single goal. To crash through that glass ceiling created by 1960s Madison Avenue advertising men. Then, the one thing she never saw coming threatens to derail her plans until she can find a solution. She never planned on having a baby―especially a baby who turns out to be a ballet dancer, something Antonia cannot get her head around. But the baby is just the beginning of Antonia’s journey into family life.
When she learns her baby’s father, Tim, has a secret buried in his past―a secret so big it changes everything― Antonia has to dig deep within herself to find the courage to see it through to the end and to find her place in the family. With an unlikely ally in her mother-in-law, Grace, who never liked Antonia, she finally begins to learn the lessons that families―even dysfunctional ones―have to offer. Figuring out where you fit into a family―and the world―may be the ultimate challenge.
Something I’m Supposed to Do [Book 4]
CHARLOTTE (“CHARLIE”) HUDSON has a problem she never saw coming. She has too much money and no idea what to do with it. As she searches for what she’s supposed to do, she faces her great-grandmother’s unfinished book manuscript and finds herself drawn into the 1980s and a romance that might teach her something about the interconnectedness of life events. If only she can figure out what it is.
The Inscrutable Life of Frannie Phillips [Book 3]
After 12-year-old Frannie Phillips survives the sinking of the Titanic, surely, she could be forgiven if she expects her parents to indulge her one dream―to become a dressmaker and designer. But this is too common for their British upper-class taste.
Driven by her desire to rebel against everything they represent and a chance encounter on the train from Oxford to London with American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frannie makes a single mistake that alters her life forever. She flees to Paris, where she is plunged into the clashing worlds of haute couture and literature.
Kat’s Kosmic Blues [Book 2]
In the year after her mother Katherine (“Kat”) Hudson’s death, Charlie thought she had learned every secret her mother had. How could she have been so wrong? When Charlie discovers her mother’s diary, it’s as if Kat is right there, telling Charlie her story. Kat’s story begins in 1965 when she’s 19 years old―the beginning of the journey that teaches her that her life will only ever be as much as she is willing to settle for. She discovers that she is willing to settle for nothing less than her dream to become a fashion designer, regardless of the obstacles along the way.
The Year I Made 12 Dresses [Book 1]
After her mother’s unexpected death, struggling writer Charlotte (Charlie) Hudson moves into her family house after her older, mostly absent sister Evelyn instructs her to empty the family home of objects and memories to ready it for sale. When Charlie stumbles on a dusty old sewing machine hidden away among the clutter of detritus in the basement, she has no idea of the journey it will take her on, or of the secrets it might reveal about her mother, her family, and herself. If only she will let it. With the help of an enigmatic fabric guru named Al, Charlie discovers how little she really knows about anyone―especially herself.
Other Fiction…
Something More Than Love
Historical Fiction
What is something more than love? It’s complicated. While teaching at a Canadian university, ex-pat American English professor Sean O’Hara stumbles on the diary of his great-great-great-grandmother, Bridget Ryan. With a doctorate in English literature based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Sean is deeply drawn into Bridget’s story when he discovers that she and Poe were contemporaries, friends and perhaps…something more?
When the diary begins in 1825, 16-year-old Bridget’s one passionate desire is to follow in her widowed father’s footsteps into medicine. The medical school, however, has never admitted a woman and has no intention of changing that policy for Bridget. Thus, Bridget is faced with discovering another path for her life, a path that leads her to her life’s work with impoverished women in early-twentieth-century Baltimore and an abiding link to Edgar Poe. Bridget’s story sweeps us into her life in Boston and Baltimore, as we begin to unravel the mystery that, to this day, continues to surround the final few days of Poe’s life.
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Plan B
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When your life hits a major roadblock, sometimes your Plan B is more than a detour – it just might be your real life.
JENN POSTMAN, a lifestyle writer for a B-list women’s magazine never thought that such mundane things as recessions or inflation or job loss could hurt her until the day her world comes crashing down when the magazine folds. Jenn finds herself back in her childhood home, a boomerang kid, working at the only job she can get– in her father’s booming gourmet grocery business. Her life changes the day someone finds a tarantula in the banana shipment.
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The Body Traders
The media turned him into a medical God. It will take only one reporter to turn heaven into hell.
Set against the backdrop of this search for immortality by developing patchwork people, The Body Traders is the story of a young newspaper reporter, Eve Cochrane, who is assigned to write a series of public relations pieces about the local university medical center’s transplant program. Facing a crossroads in her own career as a journalist, Eve finds that her nice little feature story might be more interesting than she had first thought.
When Eve discovers a tie between the so-called International Body Replacement Society and a large, international pharmaceutical company, things begin to unravel.
Grace Note: In Hildegard’s Shadow
Historical Fiction
To most people, it would have seemed like an obscure article in an obscure academic journal. To author Patricia J. Parsons, it was a challenge. The article called into question the authorship of music attributed to twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
This is the story of two women, Hildegard and her childhood friend Lysanor of Rupertsberg, both ahead of their time in many ways. Hildegard becomes a twenty-first-century saint and icon. The other is but a grace note – an embellishment of secondary importance. But their lives intertwine in ways that challenge both of them, taking them into experiences they could never have imagined. And both, in their own ways, have left a legacy to the generations that followed.
This is Lysanor’s own story about her life and the life of her friend, the mystic.
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