Following the death of Frank Sheridan, the immensely successful author of the beloved Ravian book series, his daughter Ciara is left with numerous responsibilities while she grieves. Ciara, also a writer who has had moderate success, must first attend to the large house in Ireland she inherited, which requires repairs. She also has to deal with the many fans who make pilgrimages to the home. And finally, she needs to preserve her father's legacy, starting with his request for

When we meet Melissa, it's 2012 and she is living in New York City, working as an editorial assistant and copywriter describing photographs of luxury destinations for a high-end travel magazine. Her thoughts keep taking her back to her childhood. After her mother's passing, her marine biologist father moved them from Manhattan to an island off of Thailand to continue his wife's research on manta rays. At her school in Phuket, Melissa meets Arielle, whose parents run an area h

T essa and Theo Armstrong, twins raised in England by a British father and a French mother, were inseparable until college. By 1942, with the German invasion of France, Theo enlisted in the Royal Air Force. And while her family believed she was supporting the war effort by joining women providing first aid, Tessa had secretly become part of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and traveled to France as a spy. As the war intensifies, both siblings face peril, yet it is Tessa

This haunting tale begins in 1998. A sixty-seven-year-old former star of the Yiddish theater is at the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition Hospice in Jaffa, in their sanitorium. The unnamed woman had traveled from New York City to Israel  to visit, along with her lifelong friend Rothman, the apartment she had shared with her husband Max, who was the author of her plays. Through sessions with her doctor and her deep reflections, her story unfolds. We discover that she ha