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The newest book in the continuing story of The Unforgettables, this story begins in Ukraine in the 1850s. A young girl named Gina, one of many Ginas in a very long Romani line, begins to learn her history and her mission on Earth. As she grows to womanhood, her grandmother begins to teach her about her gifts in reading the future and seeing into the past. She learns how to use the Golden Crystal ball, but when she looks into it for the first time, she is shocked to see herself, as she is struggling to leave a man she is obviously in love with. Where is she? And why is she separating herself...

Ruby had a fascinating life surrounding The Great Depression and Prohibition, which she had always kept private, until shortly before her death at age 102 when she decided the time was right to tell her story to her great-granddaughter, Ivy. Ruby relates the story of the love of her life, a man Ivy had never met, and secrets she has kept for over 80 years. The fascinating tale of guns, gangsters, and magical love captures Ivy’s imagination, taking her to another time and place. When Ivy meets Fox, she questions whether their relationship is moving too quickly. Does she really know who he ...

In this magical, romantic book, the second in the series of The Unforgettables, the story of Ivy and Fox continues in contemporary times, while at the same time flashing back to previous generations of gypsies, circus performers, and vaudevillians. In Book One of the series, Ruby and Sal, Ivy had been taking notes from her 102-year- old great grandmother in order to write a book about Ruby's life. Little did she know that while learning about secrets her great-grandmother held, Ivy would reveal mysteries that she would need to solve before moving on with her own life. Centered around West ...

In Book 5 of The Unforgettables, Emmy and Clay, the final book of the series, a previously minor character comes to the forefront. In books one through four, we followed Ivy and Fox as they discovered their entangled family trees. Their ups and downs take us through love, marriage, and turmoil, and finally the joy of reuniting with lost family. When Michael joined a class to find his biological parents, he met Ivy, a local author he admired. He fit right into the group of people searching for their family members, and became fast friends with them all. Encouraged to continue the search for ...

Author Michael Quetting shares the hilarious and moving true story of how he became a father to seven rambunctious goslings - and the surprising things he learned along the way. Starting right at the beginning, with the eggs, his journey takes him from the incubator all the way to the airstrip, where he must attempt to teach the geese to fly as part of an ambitious scientific research initiative for the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, which tracks animal migrations around the world.

Belle had been kept sheltered and protected her whole life, so when she finds her mother unexpectedly dead in their motel room, her world is turned upside down, especially since Belle and her mother Karen had always been very close. Alone, with no one to help or advise her, she must make funeral arrangements and then plan the next step for the direction of her life. While going through some papers and documents that her mother had always kept in a locked box, Belle discovers that her mother had been keeping secrets. Secrets that seemed to involve her daughter. Upon a chance encounter with a...

The story of Sally Maguire, social reporter for the Waverly Times. After a day of covering three society weddings, Sally is summoned by her boss to return to the scene of the first wedding of the day. The bride is dead. She was pushed or jumped off the balcony of the mansion on Waverly Island. Sally and her photographer friend and mentor, Sam, arrive at the scene. Detective Michael Callahan, the new cop in town is none too happy with the arrival of this nosy reporter keeping him from doing his job.

The story of two sisters who remain close although living different lifestyles. Tragedy strikes one night as a body is discovered after an explosion in a cabin on Shelby Lake.

Tara Sue Crawford is devastated by the death of her father and the brain damage caused to her mother as a result of an automobile accident. Tara has her doubts that the tragedy was an accident although the case has been closed by the Forest Glen Police Department. Dr. Jonathan Austin and his detective brother, Toby, agree. They vow to help Tara find the killer and find themselves falling in love. A story of murder, deceit, and revenge.

Book 4 of The Unforgettables, Georgy and Jack, continues the story of Ivy and Fox with a family thread that will surprise the reader. As Ivy researches a new book that she is writing about her hometown's benefactor, she discovers more than she bargained for. In the process of taking a class to learn how to research lost family members, she meets new and interesting people who will become lifelong friends. The long search for her husband's son who was given up for adoption when Fox was a teenager begins to consume her. As each person in the class struggles to find their own family member, ...

Molly Ryan is abandoned as an infant in a church on a cold December evening. Stephanie Anderson is left on the steps of a firehouse 200 miles away. The sisters are raised by strangers in loving homes not knowing they had an identical twin sister. Molly and Stephanie meet by chance and are determined to discover who their birth parents are and why they were left alone so many years before. While looking for answers, the sisters find romance, friendship, and danger...

The story of Matt and Carolyn who grew up together in Glenwood Hills. They eventually fell in love, but Matt fell into the clutches of a vixen named Maggie. He married her in haste. Carolyn recovered from her broken heart when Jerry Baxter entered the picture. After Jerry died suddenly, Carolyn's world collapsed. A chance meeting more than 20 years later rekindled the love Carolyn and Matt had for each other.