Teri Clark Linden

"After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna's adoptive mother. But just as she's gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents--aging...

"Lori, the heroine of Aunt Dimity's Death, married to a workaholic attorney, finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret about her husband's family."--Amazon.com

A Boston computer expert and amateur gardener, Emma Porter, lands a job in England on a duke's estate where a murder occurred. Together with another employee, an artist restoring a chapel, she proceeds to investigate and finds love.

Lori Shepherd, freed from the restrictions of motherhood by the arrival of the beautiful nanny Francesca Sciaparelli, must call upon her ghostly Aunt Dimity for help when she becomes caught in the middle of a controversy that threatens to destroy the village as well as her nanny's budding romance with archaeologist Adrian Culver.

Blending past and present, and told through three unique interwoven narratives that build on one another, a daring and brilliant debut novel that reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. A seductive literary mystery and mutigenerational story inspired by true events, The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. imaginatively brings into focus the period of...

Abigail Willard first spots her from the back of a New York cab: the spitting image of Abby herself at age twenty-two--right down to the silver platforms and raspberry coat she wore as a young artist with a taste for wildness. But the real Abby is now forty-six and married, with a corporate job and two kids. As the girl vanishes into a rainy night, Abby is left shaken. Was this merely a hallucinatory side effect of working-mom stress? A message of...

An explosion rips apart a Chicago building. A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day; she watched it come down with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, is hoping that her past won't catch up with her. And Franny, a young woman in search of her birth mother, watched the horror knowing that the woman she was so desperate to reconnect with was in the building. As the...

For Lauren Vancouver, Save Them All, L.A.'s new no-kill shelter, is just what the vet ordered: a place for handicapped kitties and senior spaniels to find a loving home and a second chance. But there's a problem. Its charming owner, Bella Frankovick, is now suspected of murdering her ex-husband, a powerful, animal-hating cosmetic surgeon. It's up to Lauren to rescue Save Them All and decide Bella's fate, while keeping herself and her own critters...

Lauren Vancouver is the head of HotRescues, a no-kill animal shelter. At a particularly nasty puppy mill, Lauren helps rescue four adorable beagle puppies that were dumped down a drainpipe, and she's pretty sure she knows who is responsible. Efram Kiley, one of the mill's employees, has a history of dog abuse. After he shows up at HotRescues and threatens Lauren, Efram is found dead at the shelter - and Lauren becomes the prime suspect.

"The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, she thinks she may have found her escape--as long as she can keep her past concealed."--Cover, p. [4]