Ten years ago, Gabriel Martin's sister was brutally murdered. He and his brother, Sam, have struggled to overcome the guilt, resulting in both of them taking dangerous jobs. As a fireman, Gabriel has devoted his life to protecting others. Yet no matter how many people he saves, he can't resurrect Jessie. The pain never leaves, keeping him from understanding his own goodness. It's only when he's the first responder to a brutal attack against Dr. Maddie Gilcrest that he realizes he can make a difference. Still, there are years of pain and guilt Gabriel is sinking beneath. Maddie struggles with her own fears. She can't offer him absolution any more than he can change her past, but sometimes love is enough.

When Diana Newport nearly drowns, she discovers a whole different world, Zigeth, and has the chance to mend things with her dead sister. But when she returns to life, she quickly realizes that something is not right. In fact, Levi Harland, another who has also newly returned from death, has brought back the spirit of an executed serial killer, Ronald Truman, a spirit who can hitchhike from body to body. Diana races against time between the worlds to stop Truman's plan-releasing a deadly Ebola outbreak from the CDC.

In October Breezes, Devin Abbott almost lost the one person who mattered most-Skye Williams. Following a rape and an abortion she'd never counted on, she'd believed suicide the only answer, yet Devin saved her, leaving them both struggling to make sense of a future that included Skye and Devin separating for college. Sometimes, however, the past refuses to leave. After college, the two return home to face fears time has only deepened. For Devin, that fear comes in the form of living without Skye, the one woman he's always loved. Skye yet feels the tremors of her abortion-tremors which have convinced her she's unlovable. Time and again, she rejects him, leaving them both hurt, but inasmuch as Skye cannot see beyond her choice and Devin cannot shake his fear, neither anticipates how the past will shape them and how much power love yet has.

Lev Walker has fulfilled his purpose in Elizabeth Moon's life, but it has come at a considerable price. The bullet meant for Elizabeth has shattered Lev's mortality and the forced separation from Elizabeth has scarred his spirit, so much so that Evan Walker has purged Elizabeth's memory in order for Lev to start over. Yet love is eternal. What began with a saving Elizabeth's life continues in healing Lev's spirit as he is forced to remember what he has lost at the risk of everything. Book 2 of the Sojourner Series

Elizabeth Moon is desperate to find Lev Walker, the angel she fell in love with. She knows he is a Sojourner, or an angel who escorts souls to the next world, so she believes that if she looks hard enough, she will find him, no matter that a bullet meant for her took his human form away. She's determined to find him, unaware that even angels wage their own wars that mortals aren't supposed to know about. Book 3 of the Sojourner series

At twenty-nine, Kelly James is at a crossroads. She's dying without ever having lived, and desperate to make sense of her world. Enter Tyler Adams, vibrant and open to healing Kelly's shattered heart even though he knows she's dying, and though Kelly has drifted through so much, she's determined this time, she will feel what it means to be alive and in love.

Kaylee Renard has never taken the time for love. Independence and financial security have always been top priority. Besides, she believed there will be time for a relationship later, when she can fit it in. In light of a terminal cancer diagnosis, however, her views change, and when Kaylee passes out and falls into a pond, Bastian Connelly, alone and suicidal, goes in after her, hoping that in trying to save Kaylee's life, he will end his own. But life isn't done with Bastian, and neither is love. As Kaylee comes to love him, she wonders what she's missed and seeks to find whatever gifts fate might grant her.

All Sarah and Evan Davis ever wanted was a child, but after two dangerous miscarriages, they face an unbearable-and uncertain-future. Evan tries to console her, but Sarah refuses to be swayed. Against doctor's advice, Sarah allows herself to get pregnant, and this time gives birth to a beautiful boy, Kade. At long last, both Sarah and Evan believe their lives are complete, at least until their son is diagnosed with autism, something neither of them expected-a change that leads to an even harsher reality: sometimes love, no matter how hard, must be enough.

At sixteen, Jennifer Landry thinks the worst thing that can happen is getting pregnant, but when Waylan Thompson, her boyfriend of two years, suddenly dies in a car wreck and Jennifer miscarries, she thinks her life is over. Still, Sean, Waylan's older brother, manages to pull her through. Although the two lose contact for years, Jennifer runs into Sean as she is raising her two teenage sons alone. He, too, is divorced. The years have allowed them both to heal into adults who share a mutual scar, and what was once simply a foundation of shared grief becomes more, especially as Jennifer faces another possible loss-her oldest son, who wrecks on an icy road. It's going to take everything Sean has to save her again, and he has to: he can't imagine his world without her in it.