Heaven and Dark Angel

VIRGINIA, ANDREWS

Encore Books

The Osterman Weekend / The Matlock Paper

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

robert-ludlum

Thrillers & Suspense

How had things become so complicated? 
Charlotte Adamsley thought that booking a writing workshop at their charming Adirondack lodge was perfect for shoring up sagging finances. What’s more, the creative vibes might remind her she could be more than bookkeeper, wife, and mother, inspiring her to finish her novel. But only weeks ahead, she discovers the author leading the workshop is a man from her youth. When another figure from the past appears at the workshop, along with aspiring writers, two anxious to pen a who-done-it…will Charlotte be able to salvage her manuscript or marriage by the time the week is over? Will she want to?\nPeopled with intriguing characters, Blackbird Lodge buzzes with romance, old loves reappearing, betrayals, cruelties, accidents, and surprising insight into the complexity of human relationships and love within and beyond the writing life. Hicks’ novel vividly and unflinchingly explores the writing life and the disconnect between expectations and the reality of a life first assessed as a disappointment but actually one that was well-lived. 
—Nancy Avery Dafoe, recently published memoir Unstuck in Time, A Memoir and Mystery on Loss and Love and contemporary fable/novella Naimah and Ajmal on Newton’s Mountain.

Unexpected Guests at Blackbird Lodge: a novel

Literature & Fiction

Hicks, Joyce

Contemporary

FIRST PLACE: FictionNational Federation of Press Woman Communication Contest, 2018The year after octogenarian Betty Miles' exit from senior living as told in Hicks' Escape from Assisted Living, she's staying in Chicago. Her daughter Sharon D'Angelo is busy with Sharon's Desserts, her new shop in Elkhart, Indiana, funded by a legacy from her father. This equanimity between Betty and Sharon may be short-lived after a stranger makes an astonishing claim. Will mother and daughter work through this mystery together? Of course not. They have protected each other from upsetting truths their entire lives.With her hands full--catering clients making moves on her husband Vince, her mother-in-law meddling in the desserts, and a visitor sleeping over--Sharon encourages her mother to stay away. Time isn't right for revelations of the goings-on in Elkhart that have propelled Sharon's Desserts from the red to the black. Betty's happy in her city life with friend Eleanor. She's speed dating, making new friends, and reconnecting with an old one. She's also sleuthing family history, but her suspicions she keeps from Sharon because a good wife and mother should not tarnish a reputation. When all the women meet by accident in Chicago, results of past transgressions come to light. They must ask what does it take to forgive, or move on, or rekindle romance? And do second chances offer just deserts? The Miles and D'Angelo experience with rewritten family history offers answers.

One More Foxtrot: a tale of second chances

Literary

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