For Miriam Llewelyn, moving to Stuarts Landing, Virginia, in 1978 was meant to be a fresh start after she and her husband sustain financial ruin and personal loss, but the town’s polished façades hide a fiercely protective social hierarchy she was as naive in predicting as she was of navigating. She quickly discovers small-town life is anything but quiet. Her every move engenders the scrutiny of Louise Winston Caldwell, the ambitious queen of the Women’s Auxiliary, who will stop at nothing to...

"Some relationships don't fit neatly into the space other people leave for them. The Lines Trilogy follows Mia and Joe through the joy, the cost, and the quiet courage of choosing each other anyway." Her mum used to date him. That's the part Mia doesn't mention when she tells people about Joe, the controlled, quietly commanding man who came back into her life on a Tuesday night and hasn't really left since. She's twenty-three. He's older. The history is complicated. What happens next is not....

Bad Dreams and Bad Memories Bad dreams feel real while they’re happening. Bad memories can feel the same—long after they’re over. In Bad Dreams and Bad Memories , Keith Thorn explores a quiet but powerful truth: both dreams and memories occupy the mind, not the present. They borrow intensity from the past, but they no longer have authority—unless we give it to them. This book is not about reliving trauma or diagnosing pain. It is about understanding why certain childhood experiences once felt...