Henry Carter Hull

College professor Jake Sanders can't forget the love of his life Natalie who married another man six years earlier. When Natalie's husband dies Jake attends the funeral, but the mourning widow is not Natalie, and everything he thought he knew about himself and his past comes crashing down.

The wedding of a daughter's best friend and--a year later--the wedding of a daughter brings Griffin back to Cape Cod, his childhood home, where he confronts old hurts, the loss of his father, and more of his own troubles.

An emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep listeners guessing until the end. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being lured down a darker path by one...

If not for her loving but controlling parents, Beth Prudhomme might never have taken charge of her life and moved from her native Chicago to Portland, Oregon, where she has reconnected with her spirited Aunt Sunshine and found a job as a high school music teacher. If not for her friend Nichole Nyquist, Beth would never have met Sam Carney, although first impressions have left Beth with serious doubts. Sam is everything Beth is not -- and her conservative...