Letting go is the hardest part of moving on. In the world of business, her touch is like magic, but that's as far as it goes. She feels trapped by her own history and yearns for what once was, but is afraid to confront what might be. Set in the mad whirlwind of New York City, 'Johnson Canyon' is the closing chapter of the Delsey Trilogy, where opposites often repel and endings never have the last say. She helps others find happiness, but for her it seems elusive and fleeting. Even her best friend is frustrated by her reluctance to deal with her own misgivings. The NYC-based story opened with 'Bridge to Someday' and continued with 'Delsey.'

Set in the fogs of Down East Maine, Monument Lot tells the story of the passionate and beautiful Alice Wyman. Blocked from the musical career she aches to achieve, she is held back by her own deep-seated fear of surrendering her independence. Even worse, she sees her husband, aficionado of murder mysteries from an earlier era, as part of the problem. He desperately wants to help her - his fourth wife - to resolve her conflicts, but is stymied by her headstrong personality. That is, until she very nearly loses him. Set in the easternmost town in the United States, the trail leads through the Hell's Kitchen gourmet heaven to a detective-story conclusion.

Her first husband, the one she now sorely regrets having abandoned, is safely in the arms of another woman. On the rebound from the disaster of her second marriage, beautiful, talented, and haunted Delsey Walker decides that love is not for her. That is, until her life is changed again, only this time by a five-year-old girl. The second book of the Delsey Trilogy picks up the story from the cataclysmic ending of Bridge to Someday. Death, recovery, rebirth and personal growth; all are examined within the framework of the intimate lives of these very private individuals.

Egad! Twenty Short Stories, every one of them involving folks getting it on. What's not to like? Novelist JD Rule lets his authorial pants down in this retrospective collection of his earliest explorations into the panoply of human emotions. Each story dives into a different aspect of who we are as individual players on a stage normally set for two, with a set of characters who wander in and out of the various tales, sometimes meeting at the mythical Murphy's Bar and Grille, and sometimes not. The only thing they have in common is that none of them know what to do next, and each is driven by the primary urge that defines the human condition.

On the rebound from a failed love affair, Cecelia meets Matt, Acadian son of a remote land where fog banks materialize without warning, magic lamps are real, spirits play chess with mortals, and family ties span generations. During her brief vacation trip into Down East Maine, she finds just how different Washington County is from her native Boston. Neap Tide takes the reader on a journey deep into the land of twenty-four foot tides, gaily painted but deceptively dangerous fishing boats, and submerged prejudices that surface when least expected. A New Englander and full-time resident of Maine's Washington County, the author drew on personal experience in crafting this novel.

Her awful secret is safe with her devoted brother, although her best friend suspects all is not as it seems. Each tries to protect her from the consequences of her own impulses, but in the final crush they both fail. Delsey Roberts, beautiful and headstrong but haunted and capricious, resists romantic entanglement until she falls for the brilliant but clueless computer programmer and music lover Harvey Jackman. This tangled tale roams from the streets of Hell's Kitchen to the sands of the Big Sur, exploring the emotional peaks and valleys of what seems to be the perfect couple's intimate relationship, and the relentless forces that drive it to calamity.