Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

From a powerful, moving new voice in women's fiction, "Tending Roses" is the story of a woman living in a remote Missouri farmhouse and struggling to care for her husband, baby, and aging grandmother. It is there that Katie Benson finds inspiration in the pages of her grandmother's journal.

Grandma Concetta heals everyone with her remedies and advice, and when she retires, she leaves Nona her magic pasta pot with its secret ingredient.

"When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death-until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn-and keep-the family's favor. Even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor's foundations. To save the woman she loves,...

"By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend’s brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. Untethered,...

"To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...

Susan Prentice is a young nurse at a croswroads. She's broken off an engagement, the father who raised her has just died, and now she's leaving the western shores behind for a trip to her family's home on Virginia's Northern Neck - where she saw her mother fall to her death twenty-five years ago. There, Susan's grandmother, former ballet diva Alexandrina "Alex" Vargas Montoro, proves a formidable sentinel for the family's mysterious history. At first,...

Concerned that her grandmother may die, Cammy is unprepared for the accidental death of another relative.

When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.

When Katie breaks a gravy boat at Thanksgiving dinner, her grandmother shows her that love is more important than objects.