The Apartment (Danielle Steel)
~ They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in
their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment – a spacious loft in Hell’s Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years later, Morgan Shelby joins them. She’s ambitious, with a serious finance job on Wall Street. Then Sasha Hartman, a medical student whose identical twin sister is a headline-grabbing supermodel. And so the sprawling space, with it’s exposed brick and rich natural light, becomes a home to friends about to embark on new, exhilarating adventures…
Family Tree (Susan Wiggs)
~ Love. Success. A handsome husband, a beautiful home. These are the things Annie Rush can call her
own. There are the foundations of her charmed life in Los Angeles. But in an instant, that life is shattered. And as Annie sifts through the wreckage, she must face the shock and pain of a devastating loss. Grieving and wounded, she retreats to her switchback, Vermont, family home, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the place where she grew up, the people she knew before, the hometown boyfriend whose life has been filled with unexpected turns…
The Baxters (Karen Kingsbury)
~ A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares
to celebrate her daughter Kari’s wedding to Tim Jacobs. It’s supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth can’t shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it. Indeed there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris as a single mom with a son she too often leaves with their parents.
Blood Brothers (Nora Roberts)
~ In the town of Hawkins Hollow it’s called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the
seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys- Caleb, Fox, and Gage- went on a camping trip to the Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men-and the women who love them…
Nightwork (Nora Roberts)
~ When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head and pay
her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he’d slip into rich people’s empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, violent battle, he left Chicago-but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet in his pocket to an extended stay in New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. In his line of work he can’t afford to attract attention-or get attached.
