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Six years ago, after an unspeakable crime shattered her life, Josephine “Jo” Chandler left home with no intention of ever returning. Now, because of her father’s illness, her family has asked her to return. Doing so will force Jo and everyone else to face not only that past but also the ramifications. “Sometimes you must visit the past to have peace in the present.” *Contains scenes of sexual and domestic abuse.

In the 1960s, racial prejudice and hatred resulted in a throw-away child. Can that child, now a grown man, forgive the unforgiveable? When biracial adoptee Joseph Jessup seeks Enid Gilchrist-Mulhaney’s help in searching for his birthparents, the two of them uncover secrets from the past that threaten members of four families in the present.

When genealogy director Enid Gilchrist agrees to help Diana Evans trace her family history and uncover a family secret, she cautions her about potential consequences. When DNA test results reveal a second secret, their search takes them from Tennessee to Mississippi and Arkansas, where they discover more than ancestors and risk becoming missing pieces of their own history.

Sisters argue. They also make up. Sometimes one of them gets scared. Sometimes a big sister has to overcome her own fear, and sometimes she has to help a little sister overcome hers.

Two murdered coeds. Two southern campuses. Does more than coincidence connect them? For philosophy professor Millicent Anderson, nothing is more important than her students. When one of them is murdered, her efforts to investigate across two campuses put her at odds with her own college, the local police, and the killer. If she continues, she risks losing her job, her boyfriend, and her life. Accustomed to relying on both her logic and her instinct, she questions her methods when she learns that the murders bear striking similarities to the fictional murders in a missing manuscript.

Genealogist Enid Gilchrist thought she was going to help patron Maude Everly keep a promise and uncover a family secret. Now as she and Maude search through the contents of a generations-old dower chest, they discover clues to more family secrets, troubling secrets from the Civil War years that someone in their present-day rural West Tennessee community is desperate to keep buried. Can they discover all of the family secrets in time to save their lives? In time for ninety-year-old Maude to keep her promise?

All paths have destinations, just as all choices have consequences. More often than not, however, neither destinations nor consequences are what were expected. Such is the case with the central character in each of the stories in this collection. He or she chooses a path that ostensibly will lead toward the discovery of a perpetrator, a secret, a possession, a missing friend, an ancestor’s grave, redemption, or a new home only to discover the unexpected consequence of someone else’s choice.(Two of the stories in this collection, “A Hint of Chocolate” and “Sins of the Father,” ...

Betrayal in the mid-1800s leads to a mother’s curse and a century and a half of unexplained deaths. Can one survivor bring the curse to an end?

When two small-town doctors are murdered under similar circumstances, police suspect random act of violence no longer applies. Their discovery that each man lost a patient because of medical negligence strengthens their suspicion. Dr. Ellen Guthrie has struggled most of her adult life with the issue of professional accountability. The murders of her colleagues force her to confront both the issue and the killer head-on as her psychological clashes turn personal and physical.

Benjamin Alexander dug into the past to uncover its secrets. His housekeeper guarded his secrets with her life. Now Enid Gilchrist must draw on her experience as a genealogist to replicate that search and protect those secrets while she unravels the clues that have crossed the years to spawn a new criminal and threaten those she loves. She also must draw on her strength of will to prevent her feelings for Chief of Police Patrick Mulhaney from hindering their mutual efforts to solve the mystery, bring peace to the dead, and protect the living.

When genealogist Enid Gilchrist is asked to unravel the family mystery surrounding a seventy-year-old baby blanket, she is intrigued. She expects the project to be a short one that will in no wise interfere with her long-awaited marriage to Chief of Police Patrick Mulhaney. When her short project unravels more threads than expected, both project and wedding plans run amuck as someone makes every effort to stop her investigation.

When Assistant Professor Millicent Anderson determines to help her childhood friend and colleague, Will Pollard, prepare for an interview at a major university, she has no idea how difficult or dangerous a task it will be. She soon realizes that to help him, she must stay ahead of a cunning villain determined to drive Will over the edge—perhaps literally—twenty years after an intruder murdered his fiancée and stole an antique porcelain calico cat. Tenure obstacles, an unexpected love tangle, and the reappearance of the missing figurine complicate Millicent’s task of saving Will’s ...

A disembodied voice. A spectral visitation. An inexplicable knowing. Such occurrences defy logic. Or do they? Is it possible that paranormal forces do exist BEYOND THE MIST waiting to enlighten us—or frighten us? This is the thread that ties these stories together. Whether focused on crime or curse, apparition or psychic connection, each story is driven by a paranormal force that its characters are compelled to believe.

Someone had a secret to kill for. Now the secret keeper is dead, and the Book of Secrets is missing. Grief turns to fear and suspicion as six childhood friends try to protect their secrets and avoid the consequences of choices they made years ago. The task of protecting their lives falls to Millicent Anderson, philosophy professor turned sleuth. To complete her task, Millicent must find the book, expose the secrets, and identify the killer with little help and much resistance from the friends she is trying to protect, one of whom may be the killer.