Books published by LAKE UNION PUB

"It's been two years and two months since trauma shattered hospital chaplain Isabel Myles's world. Since that day she has stopped answering calls. She's shut out her family, friends, and coworkers. Even her faith seems to have faded. Except for her connection with her younger sister, Chantel, Isabel copes by forgetting. Then she takes on a summer job as a home caregiver for Opal, a dementia patient who is struggling to remember. The more invested Isabel becomes in Opal's vanishing world--and in her devastated grandson, Evan--the more open she is to forming bonds, old and new. She reaches out to her best friend. She repairs the damage between her and her estranged parents. And with Evan she feels emotions she thought were lost forever. But the trauma Isabel's kept buried for so long will be rediscovered too. What Isabel learns could change her life again, forever. This time, though, she won't have to face the past alone."--

Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it's also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams. They all brim with secrets: Zenaida, the daughter of an assassinated Havana journalist; power-hungry Sofia, who plots a fast track to success; Chaveta, Zenaida's loyal comrade in arms who fearlessly flouts tradition; Feliciano, a charismatic Spanish anarchist; Libano, the cafetero, silent and watchful; and Maceo, a daring guerrilla soldier who fights a brutal undertow. As lives intertwine, revolution smolders, and passions ignite, the bustling coral island is set to explode.

Olivia Hamilton is married to the love of her life, Dean, a private jet pilot. When he vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, Olivia must eventually let go of the hope that he might still be alive. Melanie Brown is a particle physicist who studies the Bermuda Triangle, but when her mother dies in a tragic accident, Melanie struggles to reboot her life and career, starting a love affair with her therapist. A shocking discovery shows Olivia's and Melanie's paths are intertwined, casting Dean's disappearance in a new light. The two women's strange connection threatens to unlock secrets that will change everything Olivia thought she knew about her marriage, her husband, and most importantly, herself.