Touching Stars

With nine years and a turbulent childhood between them, Kendra and Jamie have never been storybook sisters. After a long estrangement, they've finally begun to heal their hurts and forge a new bond.

Now Jamie is offering a gift Kendra has long since given up hoping for, the fondest wish of her heart--a baby. Already raising two young girls on her own, Jamie wants to become a gestational surrogate for Kendra and her husband, Isaac, giving birth to a child the husband and wife have created together. Despite some lingering misgivings about her once-wayward younger sister's commitment, Kendra agrees, and soon Jamie is pregnant.

In addition to this amazing gift of life, Jamie has designed a new house for Kendra and Isaac and is overseeing its construction on Isaac's ancestral property along the Shenandoah River, with the help of Cash Rosslyn, one of the most attractive men Jamie has known. By giving her sister both a home and a family, Jamie hopes to prove to Kendra that she deserves absolution for her past mistakes. But when a medical crisis threatens her health and her promising new relationship with Cash, Jamie learns that the most difficult choice in her life is yet to come--and its cost may be beyond calculation.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Elisabeth Whitfield is having one doozy of a mid-life crisis. Her adult son doesn't need her anymore. She and her architect husband, the revered Owen Whitfield, don't seem to connect the way they used to, and she's afraid Owen is having an affair with a younger colleague. Almost worse, upper-class Elisabeth has become obsessed with a down-and-dirty tabloid TV news show, The Whole Truth. Having given up her own budding career as a broadcast journalist to marry Owen, she's acutely envious of gorgeous, seductive Gypsy Dugan, the superstar anchor of the show. Gypsy is everything Elisabeth wishes she could be. Gypsy's life is the road not taken.

But Elisabeth's own life is about to take an extraordinary turn.

Following a near-fatal car wreck, the Elisabeth Whitfield who awakens in the hospital is a new woman--in a younger, sexier body. Most mystifying of all, the body is familiar. Right before the crash, it belonged to Gypsy Dugan, who was driving the other car. Now Elisabeth's own body is just down the hall in a coma.

Fate has magically given Elisabeth a second chance at everything she thought she had thrown away. Passion, fame, glamour--with death threats thrown in for good measure. Can she take advantage of this strange gift and step into Gypsy's life, which comes with sexy news reporter Charles Casey attached? Or will she waste this opportunity, as well?

As Elisabeth tries to put her past behind her and forget Owen, she finds that Gypsy's life, too, is anything but trouble-free. Will getting everything she ever desired cost Elisabeth everything that really matters?

Originally published by Avon Books, Publisher's Weekly called Once More With Feeling: "A seductive women's daydream."

Library Journal said: "This perceptive story is sure to tap into the fantasies of readers who wonder what life would have been like if they had a chance to be someone else."

Once a struggling community of Irish immigrants, Lake Erie's Whiskey Island has a past as colorful as the patrons who frequent the Whiskey Island Saloon. A local gathering place for generations, the saloon is now run by the Donaghue sisters, whose lives and hearts have been shaped by family tragedy and a haunting mystery.

When an act of violence sets the wheels of fate in motion, Megan Donaghue, a woman unwilling to trust in love, and Niccolo Andreani, a man unwilling to trust in himself, are determined to learn the truth about one fateful night in the family's long-forgotten past.

As an old man struggles to protect a secret as old as Whiskey Island itself, a murder that still shadows too many lives is about to be solved--with repercussions no one can predict.

USA TODAY bestselling author Emilie Richards continues the journey begun in her beloved novel Whiskey Island with this unforgettable tale of star-crossed lovers, murder and three sisters who discover a hidden legacy that will lead them home at last to Ireland.

Megan, who is feeling hopelessly unprepared in her new marriage, has no idea how to fix the problems already facing her relationship. Casey, who is happily married to her high school sweetheart, is facing a new challenge: motherhood. And Peggy, who always dreamed of becoming a doctor, has put medical school on hold with the discovery that her young son is autistic.

Each facing her own difficulties, the Donaghue sisters are brought to the remote Irish village of Shanmullin by Irene Tierney, a distant relative who hopes that they will be able to help her learn the truth about her father's death in Cleveland more than seventy-five years ago. As a stunning tale of secrets and self-sacrifice, greed and hidden passions unfolds, the life of each sister will be changed forever.