To capture what we cannot keep

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Becky Melby and Cathy Wienke

Jeanie is pursuing her dream of winning a pastry chef contest that will send her to Paris to study and possibly teach. But she hadn’t counted on her daughter’s father showing up in time to give her away at her wedding. But Steven is here. . .and asking questions about Jeanie’s disappearance nearly thirty years ago. If she reveals the truth, she risks losing him again. When the past rises up and engulfs them with its secrets, can their rekindled feelings for one another survive the devastating impact? Is there really a future for them—together?

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Karen Rose Smith

SHE NEEDED HIM... Her painful past had taught neonatologist Francesca Talbot to rely on no one but herself. Until an accident landed the mother-to-be in the hospital...and she was forced to turn to fiercely protective rancher Grady Fitzgerald -- her baby's father. AND SO DID THEIR BABY! Grady was determined to be part of his new family's life...which meant watching over mother and unborn child whether Francesca liked it or not! And once the irresistible beauty was ensconced at his Texas ranch, Grady knew it was where she belonged. So he'd just have to put his own heartache aside and break down the wall the wary doctor had built around her heart. Because it was no longer just their baby's future at stake....

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Alice Chetwynd Ley

Lovely Corinna Haydon, who has been mooning over fortune hunter Fabian Greenville, is taken by her family to Paris, where it is hoped she will meet an eligible suitor. Also traveling with the group is her sister's brother-in-law Sir Richard Beresford who continues to take an interest in Corinna's future, even as their sojourn on the continent becomes dangerous.

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Barbara Pym

Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their spinsterhood and their love for each other. Harriet is a bubbly, chubby coquette. Belinda is a meek, thin romantic who, since her youth, has nurtured an unrequited love for the town's vicar. Barbara Pym provides her heroines with a memorable clique of admirers: Archdeacon Hoccleve, a pompous man of the cloth whose sermons remain mysteries to his parishioners; Edgar Donne the young church curate who, taken under Harriet's wing, is fed enough chicken to last a lifetime; and Count Ricardo Bianco, a nice old man who periodically proposes to, and is turned down by, Harriet. In many ways, *Some Tame Gazelle*, Barbara Pym's first novel, presents the reverse image of village life portrayed in *A Few Green Leaves*, her last novel. Where that was reflective, this is hopeful, gay, and turned to the future. The world of Barbara Pym may be as provincial as an English country village, but it is alive and ready for the seizing.