Schoolteacher Melanie Travis turns PI to find a prized poodle that went missing after its owner died of an apparent heart attack while working in the kennel. In the course of the probe she comes across romance, murder and a great deal of dog lore, including breeding, handling, showing and judging. A first novel.

In 1946, David Hartman arrives in Leighton Ridge to serve as rabbi to the fourteen Jewish families there, and meets Martin Carter, the Congregational minister who will become his closest and lifelong friend.

Angered when Newbury, Connecticut's three-hundred-year-old cemetery is invaded by an eyesore of a mausoleum belonging to newcomer Brian Groses, Ben Abbott launches a personal investigation when Brian's body is found in his monument, the victim of a shooting.

Career woman Lainey Wolfe wishes she could change places with best friend Farrell Cole, a housewife. Lainey gets her wish when the Coles are killed and she is named the guardian of their children. The appearance of Farrell's sexy brother is annoying, she has no time for romance, until Lainey realizes the Coles did not die by accident and she needs a man's protection.

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The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.

After 17 years of marriage a mother of four decides to put some spark in her life and returns to her old job of photojournalist. The novel describes her adventures and romance with a Wall Street billionaire.

Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.