Lonely Society

Loneliness has become the defining condition of the 21st century. It is damaging our health, our wealth, and our happiness and even threatening our democracy. Never has it been more pervasive or more widespread, but never has there been more that we can do about it.

When Lillian March accepts a post as governess in the bustling industrial town of Birmingham, she expects little more than a modest life of teaching and propriety. Instead, she finds herself in the eccentric household of Joseph Harcourt, a brilliant inventor whose intricate clockwork creations have made him wealthy—but not respectable. Joseph is everything polite society warns against: unconventional, outspoken, and utterly fascinating. As Lillian teaches his shy young ward, she begins to glimpse the tender man beneath the tinkering genius—and to imagine a life that defies every rule ...

Oklahoma girl, Cat Carlyle is a radio broadcast journalist who agrees to help her friend and police homicide detective Thomas Sullivan on a murder case. They discover more than the death of the owner of a dog rescue society after more people and their dogs start turning up dead or missing. It's anyone's guess as to who the killer is or why they all share a common bond of loneliness. Feel the immense pain of isolation and marvel at the resiliency of the human spirit and the power of love in...Tokens of the Lonely.