Matt Bondurant
The Third Translation

Walter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by the British Museum with the task of unlocking the ancient riddle of the Stela of Paser, one of the last remaining real-life hieroglyphic mysteries in existence today. The secrets of the stela, a centuries-old funerary stone, have evaded scholars for thousands of years due to the Stela's cryptic reference to a third translation. Drawn into its mystery, Rothschild becomes the dupe of a seduction, robbery, and conspiracy engineered by a cult devoted to ancient Egyptian mysticism. With no one to trust and nothing as it appears, he must fight an elusive enemy to save his livelihood - and his very life.

Beth Gutcheon
Leeway Cottage

In April 1940, as the Nazis march into Denmark, a rich girl named Sydney Brant marries a gifted Danish pianist, Laurus Moss. Almost at once, their views of the world begin to diverge. When Laurus chooses to leave Sydney in the fall of 1941 to help build a Danish Resistance from London, Sydney is dismayed. By the time they are reunited four years later, Laurus's family has lived through one of the most stirring stories of the war - Denmark's courageous rescue of virtually all seven thousand of the country's Jews. Meanwhile Sydney, in America, has had a baby. Will these two very different people ever understand each other at all?

Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt, real and imagined. At twenty-five, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through the planned marriage with all its promise of a family of her own. Her infertility changes her life as swiftly and as irrevocably as the urban landscape around her. With prose that is both eloquent and unflinching, Jones charts the emotional journey of her characters as they explore the painful territory of truth and the healing landscape of forgiveness.