Henry Carter Hull

John William Barry and Neil Countryman are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington's backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.

New York book editor Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha's Vineyard, and while she goes to the island hoping for solace, strength, and a relaxing place to finish a biography of psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich, she also finds love with a man known as Hermit, whose secret could impact their growing relationship.

"In her inspiring, vividly composed and always faithful book" (Susan Muto), Karen Fredette describes a world where life is rich in being rather than in having . Selected as a Catholic Book of the Month, Where God Begins to Be fulfills Murray Bodo's observation that "instead of myth fabricated from a few fragments, we have here the details-the nitty-gritty, muddy details-of a hermit's daily living." Karen is a "Seer who brings you along with her, joyfully"...

A 1930s housekeeper stars in "an Agatha Christie-like whodunit with touches of Olde World England and a soupçon of romance" ( Booklist ). In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family's "ornamental hermit" to live on...