Alix London is restoring a valuable painting and is thankful for the job. The daughter of a convicted art forger, once a notable art conservator, she is trying to make it in the art world with the baggage left by her father. A chance meeting with a newly rich art collector lands her a job to authenticate an undiscovered Georgia O’Keefe painting. Alix finds herself in New Mexico. What she doesn’t expect is that her talent becomes dangerous — even to the point of death. Hers!
Category: Fiction
Books that describe imaginary events and people. A story, even though based on a factual event, can still be categorized as fiction.
A Promise of Forgiveness by Jo Ann Brown
Key characters are holding secrets. Some long held. Beautifully written. Great characters. Insight into what bullying in any form can do to people. Not a “downer” story at all
The Offering
Sheriff Serenity Adams feels she owes Bobby, Blood Rock’s coroner. So — when he asks her to “dig” into the murder outside of her authority, she does but it is *not* something she wants to do. Bobby’s best friend, a coroner in Sugar Grove, has asked Bobby for help. He, in turn, asks Serenity. And the more she looks…
Nursing Her Amish Neighbor by Marta Perry
Miriam Stoltzfus is tired. She is happy to finally be home with her family in Lost Creek. Miriam is known as a caregiver and before she hardly has time to take a breath she is asked to care for her neighbor, Matthew King, whom she has known since childhood. Matthew was severely injured in an accident that killed his brother. And to say Matthew is a difficult patient is an understatement.
Runaway Mail-Order Bride and the Mayor
Heather’s mother died and her father is not only a drunk but is abusive. It is not a surprise that Heather runs away by becoming a mail-order bride. Her future lies in the town of Daisy Creek, Nebraska where Joshua is Mayor who has placed an ad for a mail-order bride. But this story has more than “girl meets boy, boy meets girl, big sigh!” Heather withholds certain information from Joshua and when that “information” arrives in Daisy Creek. Oh boy…
Love in Unlikely Places by Linda Byler
Emma resigns from teaching school and leaves her Amish neighborhood to take a position of nanny to two children of an English couple. Living on the beach in their rental home while their house is being built next door. And surprise, Amish men are doing the construction and one of them is single and very handsome. And he seems interested in her. But are things what they seem? What happened to the sweet little girl she met initially? Can she keep her faith living in a completely English world?
