The chaos takes a murderous turn when Libby Sheffield, while working at her fathers newspaper, receives an obituary for a reputable church deacon hours before his death.

But when a family tragedy happens, shes forced to drive back to Crocker County.

The rolling farmlands cant much hide the things she left behind: the best friend she abandoned who now runs a meatloaf hotline, the childhood front porch that sits hauntingly empty, and that fiasco of a Corn Fest that spun her life in a different direction.

Before Jane can escape her past a second time, disaster strikes, and she will have to find a way to right her mistakes and save herself from her regrets.

An unflinchingly love letter to the Midwest that unfolds through a celebration of movies, this ferociously endearing novel brings home the saving grace of second chances.

With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of school.

But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is offered a job at a family-run winery and doesnt refuse, their meticulously planned forever threatens to come crashing down.

But this new reality certainly seems like a dream come true - a cottage overlooking a vineyard; new friends with their own inspiring plans; and William, the handsome son of the winery owners who captures Hannahs heart only to leave for the very city she let go.

Soon, the mission to rescue the failing winery becomes a mission to rescue Hannah from the life she thought she wanted.

James Ford turns to Joes brother, Sam, for help, only to discover that there is a killer among them, and that remembering the killers face may be the last thing she ever does.

Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men.

Her last put her in the hospital and, after shes healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit.

On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it.

When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife.

On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board.

What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go.

In Billy OCallaghans hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot.

But Dianes academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship.

Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them.

More than a decade later, Kit thinks shes put Diane behind her forever, and shes begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her.

But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet: taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol.

Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them both.

A century earlier, Gossamer Grove is stirred into chaos by the arrival of controversial and charismatic twin revivalists.

Hannah Fontenot Seattle