“Eternity is a good place to start.” For Gary, who had already spent most of one lifetime in prison, dying gave him a shot at redemption. For Kathy, Gary’s sudden appearance causes panic at first until her abusive ex-boss/boyfriend decides to challenge an armed cop. Now working together in a mini-mart, Gary and Kathy have an opportunity to find something neither ever expected: happiness. The question they must face is, “Will it last?”

Kelly Adams is a musically gifted orphan from Romania, studying the performing arts in a small private school in the Alberta badlands. Tanner Kounz is a talented actor and playwright, who has just been given the most important writing assignment of his career. Kyle Teller is a deaf instructor of American Sign Language, trying to cope with the traumatic events which robbed him of his hearing. Maya Carpenter is a drug addict with a life in shambles. And Cassie Hudson is an exhausted single mother and high school dropout, working double shifts at a 24-hour roadside gas station. When reclusive novelist Max Kordon wins the coveted Klondike Fiction Prize, his acceptance speech is witnessed by viewers from across the nation, most of whom have never seen him before. But his words and face are sufficient to send shockwaves through five unrelated lives, bringing to light his hidden past, as well the largely forgotten life of a man named Stanley Harmon, whose special birthday present for Kelly was never delivered.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Frank Delaney's The Matchmaker of Kenmare. January 1932: Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben’s mother, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, “Find him and bring him back,” thereby sending the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood. Interweaving a host of unforgettable creations—“King” Kelly, Venetia’s violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia’s mysterious, amoral mother; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist’s dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls a splendid narrative that spans half the world and a tumultuous decade.

Eighth in the Sarge and Kelly Series. Kelly falls in love for the second time, but his traumatic childhood keeps him from marriage. When his words are misconstrued, he finds himself backed into a wall. She thinks he proposed marriage. He buys her an expensive diamond, but refuses to set a wedding date. In desperation, he seeks advice from his best friend Sarge, who happens to be his boss. Because she staunchly refuses to sleep with him, he becomes so angry, he drives into the rear end of a tractor-trailer rig. Crushed beneath it, he suffers near fatal injuries. One doctor pronounces him dead, although he keeps trying to resuscitate him. Does he live? Does he marry?

Kelly is faced with tragedy as her hidden secrets become known to those she loves. As she struggles to find her daughter and get back the love of her life, she is drawn to take fate in her own hands. The choices that are made can lead to disaster as she tries to cope and deal with her reality. Is it too late for Kelly to reclaim the life that she longs for as the secrets that she swore to take to her grave become exposed? Hidden Secrets is the final novel of Kelly's Destiny.

Kelly Ferguson is young, single and has a bit of a drinking problem. She isn't an alcoholic, but her drinking causes her to have a lot of one-night stands as she tries to find Mr. Right. When he finally does come along, he isn't exactly what she had expected so she pushes him away. When he comes back, he has a surprise that shocks her.