"Whistling past the graveyard." That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. . . .
In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is--as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

The award-winning, national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a spirited, "entertaining surprise" (Publishers Weekly) of a novel in league with Water for Elephants and The Aviator's Wife. They are barnstormers...the daredevil fliers whose airborne acrobatics are a thrilling spectacle crisscrossing the Heartland skies. Rising above each of their circumstances in their own "flying circus" are Cora Rose Haviland, a privileged young woman left penniless when her father's fortune is lost; Charles "Gil" Gilchrist, a World War I pilot whose traumatic past fuels his death-defying stunts; and eighteen-year-old Henry Schuler, the son of a German immigrant farmer, on the run from shocking accusations. Each holds secrets that could destroy their makeshift family. And, on their adrenaline-charged journey of self-discovery, one of them must pay the price. With the poignant and powerful storytelling voice that made Whistling Past the Graveyard "a classic, a book people want to pass along for generations to come", Susan Crandall artfully weaves the stories of three unforgettable characters, each searching for salvation that waits just beyond the horizon.

From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees. Tallulah James's parents' volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family's reputation and raising her younger twin siblings onto her youthful shoulders. If not for the emotional constants of her older brother, Griff, and her old guard Southern grandmother, she would be lost. When betrayal and death arrive hand in hand, she takes to the road, headed to what turns out to be the not-so-promised land of Southern California. The dysfunction of her childhood still echoes throughout her scattered family, sending her brother on a disastrous path and drawing her home again. There she uncovers the secrets and lies that set her family on the road to destruction.

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Two years ago, Glory Harrison lost her husband and unborn child in a fire she has no memory of and she's been running ever since. When her beloved grandmother needs her help, Glory returns to her rural hometown in Tennessee and can't help but feel the weight of people's pity. As far as the town is concerned, Glory and her husband had the 'perfect' marriage but Glory remembers his jealousy and possessiveness and her growing unhappiness. The one saving grace to her return is that she reconnects with Eric Williams, an old friend from childhood. As the firefighter that pulled her from the flames, the sight of him is enough to bring back bad memories but as time passed their friendship grows and a romance begins. The divorced father of a mildly autistic son, Eric has his hands full but Glory is irresistibly drawn to him. But Eric remembers the sad look in Glory's eyes and her husband's jealousy and has his own theories about the night of the fire. When Glory starts to receive receive disturbing calls and letetrs, Eric and Glory must uncover the truth about that night - but will their fledgling love survive what they reveal?

Luke Boudreau goes to the Mississippi home of his army buddy Calvin Abbott, who was killed in the line of fire while saving Luke's life. By seeking out Calvin's family, luke hopes he will be able to find some peace and closure from the horrible guilt that haunts hime. Instead he finds out Calvin was married to a beautiful woman named Analise. Luke is surprised that his friend never told him he was married. But he becomes even mor surprised with himself for falling in love with her.

Molly Boudreau has the career she always wanted: she's a doctor at last. Yet there's a hole in her life. She yearns for a soul-stirring connection - and her prayers are answered in a way she could never have predicted ...A pregnant girl shows up at Molly's hospital, alone and terrified, only to be murdered after she gives birth. But Molly made this young mother a promise, and she now flees with the baby to her own hometown. With everyone assuming the infant is hers, she has no trouble hiding the much more explosive truth - until a sexy reporter with smouldering eyes starts asking probing questions. Dean Coletta wants to know everything about this 'mother and child'...even as he longs to hold Molly's body next to his ...even as he carefully guards his own shocking secret, the one that now threatens the child Molly loves more than life itself.

12 short months...that's how long photographer Caroline Rogers has until she gets her life back. 6 years since her parents passed away, leaving her to take care of her two younger siblings. But now it's only a year until her sister Macie starts college and Caroline has visions of working in exotic locations around the world. She's excited and terrified but she's ready...or so she thought until she sees the moving van in front of her old family farm. For when her parents passed away and an older woman bought their home, Caroline vowed to get it back one day. She never expected Mick Larson to snatch it up from right under her nose. Mick Larson knew he had to get out of Chicago and start a new life. Leaving a thriving career in psychiatry and a broken heart, he moved back home and bought the Rogers' farm. The last thing he needs right now is this fiery-haired woman in his kitchen, demanding answers from him. But he sees a strength in Caroline's eyes and a warmth in her smile that he desperately needs in his life. Could this farm be the answer to his prayers in more ways than one?

When Lily Holt returns to Glens Crossing, Indiana, she hopes to forge a new life for herself and her troubled son, Riley. Little does she know that she will have to confront her past head on. For it is here that she once again reunites with Clay Winters, the very man who has haunted her memory every day for 14 years.

A woman of the law,
A man with a past,
And trouble on the horizon.

Sensible, capable, and always in control, Leigh Mitchell is the local sheriff of her sleepy Indiana home town. But Leigh is turning thirty and feeling restless. Something needs to change. She needs to change. So when a sexy stranger asks her to ride the Ferris wheel one moonlit night, she takes a leap of faith-and falls for Will Scott, dangerous secrets and all. By turns passionate and tender, Will reveals little about his past and less about his future, even when the town suspects him of committing a terrible crime. Now on the uncertain back roads of life, take-charge Leigh must learn to let go…and trust not only the cold dictates of the law but the hot-blooded demands of her heart.

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