Widowed, pregnant & penniless, Marilee returns home to Cross Roads, New Mexico, to find her father dead & the family's motel on Route 66 overrun by outlaws. Can she take on bootlegger Jeb Pierce & fix up the business? This is the final book in Garlock's depression-era trilogy, Route 66.

Set in 1960s Mississippi, Layla Jay hopes to please her grandmother and to catch the eye of Jehu, the cutest boy in the ninth grade, by pretending to be saved, but her plan backfires when her mother marries the revival preacher.

For Kenzie, growing up in the Lowe home means opening the bottom drawer of her father's dresser to choose which of the three belts she wants to get whipped with; trips to Beehive Liquors for her father's vodka; and dreaming of the day she can escape apartment A5. Over the course of twenty years, she goes to school, holds odd jobs, and develops her own craving for the bottle. Then, when Kenzie learns that her father is dying, she's shocked by her desire...

Two young children talk about a time when their father behaved in strange, sometimes scary, ways, until his friends talked with him and took him to meetings that helped him be a better father.

Professor David Ullman is a leading authority on demonic literature, specializing in Milton's Paradise Lost. David sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when the mysterious Thin Woman invites him to Venice to witness a "phenomenon," he turns her down. She leaves behind plane tickets and an address, advising David that her employer is not often disappointed. And what happens in Venice will change everything.

Nina, her brother Andrew, and their mother each give their perspective on the family's relationships and their memories of their late father/husband.

Siblings Jonathan and Theo Anthony are inseparable, inventing magical worlds and buttressing each other against the loneliness of growing up in Evendon--their family's ancestral home in Wales--with their alcoholic mother Alicia. When a family tragedy brings their glamorous grandmother Eve home from America, Jonathan and Theo are initially elated by the attention she lavishes on them. But soon it becomes clear that there is more to the Anthony family...

As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport - softball -, and what she really wants to do with her life.

"Country music bad boy, Chase Bradington is on the comeback trail. Fresh from rehab for alcohol addiction and transformed by the power of Christ, Chase is battling to rediscover the music he loves and a career he nearly ruined. Then he meets up-and-comer, Pyper Brock and instantly sparks ignite. Despite her rampant attraction to the handsome and talented icon, Pyper knows of Chase's reputation and soundly dismisses his romantic overtures. No way will...

Fifteen-year-old Damaris runs away from an abusive father, taking with her her mother's love and two precious heirlooms; and now she must come to terms with her past, learn to live in the present, and trust her future to another Father.