Marilyn Gardiner

• Jul-2015
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When the mine waste dam above them broke, it scoured the entire valley clean of all vegetation and many habitants. Almost every family lost a loved one or more, as well as their homes, gardens, and livestock. Worst of all they lost a sense of dependa...

• Jun-2014
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Is it real love when you can't eat, can't sleep, can't catch your breath while watching Will practice his high dive at the pool, and are suspicious of your own quirky grandmother's advice? The summer has been mystical. Will, one of the handsomest bo...

• Apr-2013
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On the Oregon Trail, Jenny Nation is only three weeks into the trip by wagon train when her husband is killed. Frozen in grief and fear, Jenny chooses to go on. Through heat, storms, walking, a buffalo stampede, and her daughter's kidnapping by the C...

• Mar-2009
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Love is not on Bree's agenda as she plans a perfect Christmas for herself and her small daughter. However, the holiday is thrown into jeopardy when she's made the target of a stalker. She is terrified. Ty is determined to convince Bree of his love an...

• Jun-2008
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Coming home for a high school reunion is not the sentimental, happy time Lily anticipated. Meeting Adam -- the man she never forgot, the man who inexplicably disappeared from her life ten years ago -- is painful and then, to her bewilderment, someone...

• Dec-2007
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Hearing the voice of her dead son calling for help can't be normal. Can it? Zoe turns to childhood friend, Wiley, when she realizes her husband is either setting her up for committal or planning murder. Her gratitude for Wiley's support deepens into ...

• Mar-2007
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What if you were a young, single mother, desperate for a place of security after two years of trauma, who moved with her seven-year-old son back to her childhood home, and finds it inhabited by the malevolent ghost of her dead twin sister? Kate Foste...

• Jan-2006
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Jeremy Blake is committed to non-committed relationships. Lauren Chambers will settle for nothing less than the whole thing: bells and whistles, romance and marriage vows. Jeremy's young son, Michael, and Lauren share an addiction to the St. Louis Ca...

• Dec-2002
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When six-year-old Gilly disappears from school, his frantic mother sets out to find Gilly, herself. She deals with unsympathetic in-laws, underworld characters she never ever, thought to meet face to face, threatening "gifts," and frightening intrude...

• Sep-2002
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Juliet is convinced her brother has been kidnapped .  Mac thinks he is running guns in Jamaica.  Mac is rough-and-tumble.  Juliet is every inch a lady.  He has lied to her at every juncture.  She has zero tolerance for untrut...

• May-2002
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Floating down the Ohio River in 1778 with George Rogers Clark and his small army, Verity survives capture by Indians, the rigors of flatboat transportation, the unwanted attentions of an overbearing and crude fellow-traveler, and all the dangers of t...

• Mar-2002
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As a widow, Ellen is confronted with decisions that she feels inadequate to make. For the first time she must take charge of her own life and that of her three almost-grown daughters. Loneliness and fear of inadequacy sap her energy, the girls drain ...

• Dec-2001
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Who is she? Whose child is she carrying? From the moment Beth Kincaid rubs the brass of long dead Olivia Avenlyng while she and her husband tour England, two worlds collide. Olivia freely inhabits Beth's body, and Beth is pulled back in time to reliv...

Four generations of women live together, each with her own problems, learning how to cope with her own issues while providing support for the others. Elizabeth is the glue that holds the family together: her elderly mother suffering from dementia, he...