Julie Jones knows she is just a country girl, not beautiful but presentable. But as the country roars into the Jazz Age, no one can remain untouched. Crime has risen enough to warrant hiring Corbin Appleby as police chief. And Birdie Stuart arrives in town, looking for a new man to take care of her. Before the summer fades, tensions explode, and Birdie's schemes threaten to tear Julie's family apart....

Harriet Scott Chessman
Lydia Cassatt Reading The Morning Paper

This story is told in the absorbing and lyrical voice of Mary Cassatt's sister, Lydia, as she poses for five of her sister's most unusual paintings. Ill with Bright's Disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world with courage, openness and passion. As she addresses and comes to accept her own position as her sister's model, she asks stirring questions about love and art's capacity to remember.

Karen Robards
To Trust A Stranger

When Julie Carlson learns of her husband's affair, she hires Mac McQuarry, former cop. But the routine assignment spirals into a race for survival. Tracking the Carlson's car down a lonely road one night, Mac witnesses an incredible hit that targeted Julie. Suddenly Mac and Julie have become the hunted. With the mob and the police in hot pursuit, they can rely only on each other as they crash their way through a maze of buried secrets and deadly deceptions.