small cities

"In Sunshine, the main event in town is Friday night football, the biggest party of the year is held in a field filled with pickup trucks, and church attendance is mandatory. For Kaycee Jean McCoy, life in Sunshine means dating guys she has no interest in... Unlike Kaycee, Bren doesn't really conceal who she is. But as the cool, worldly new girl, nobody at school seems to give her any trouble. Maybe there's no harm if Kaycee gets closer to her too, as long as she can keep that part of her life a secret, especially from her family and her best friend"--Dust jacket.

Cherry Kerrigan loves her simple life, her family's tiny trailer, even working at Burrito Barn. Forget college--she's marrying the boy next door. But then a glamorous starlet sweeps Cherry into a world of fast cars and penthouse parties. When she drops a bomb of an offer, Cherry knows her life will change forever--no matter what she decides.

Marine Paul Haggerty struggles with the decision to follow his heart and pursue a relationship with Vanni, the widow of one of his comrades who just gave birth to a son and whom he has always loved, or stand by his lover who is carrying his child.

On a wintry morning, in the remote Adirondack village of Wedeskyull, New York, Nora Hamilton wakes to find her life utterly changed: her rock-solid policeman husband has committed suicide. The life that Nora has grown to know and love in her husband's peaceful hometown is gone.

Lily and Duncan spend a revealing summer in upstate New York, in the Victorian house that Lily inherited, which begins with the couple's car colliding with a wild boar, which they later discover was the eccentric town's mascot.

Matthew Garth is drawn into a series of unexpected confrontations after assisting Dr. Dunbar when shooting victim Louisa Lindahl is brought into his office on Thanksgiving Day, and as his life is irrevocably changed, Matthew finds himself drawn to Louisa and the Dunbars as he searches for his own version of the American dream.