Akron Public Library

Drix and Elle come from different backgrounds and different worlds. They try to find what connects them and break past the odds to, maybe, be together while finding their own independence from their pasts and their families' expectations.

Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walter's restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts-heading west without...

Only the most daring cross the River of No Return to enter this wild, lawless region. Mountains laden with riches lured prospectors burning with gold fever. Easy money brought ruthless young men with guns for hire. And hidden amid the vast forests of white pine were the war ponies of Shoshoni and Nez Perce--bloodthirsty Indian warriors who gathered to drive the white man from the red man's ancestral home.

When Grayson Guillory stumbles upon evidence that her father, the governor of Louisiana, and her own new husband may have collaborated in the murder of her mother, her suspicions threaten to destroy her relationship with her father and to undermine her marriage.

Its been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous e-mail offering to pay him nearly a quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kellys investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind-his wife, Marie....