Books published by Stonearch Bridge Books

If Christmas is a time of families coming together, why is this family falling apart? Christmas wasn't supposed to be this way. Not for Annie Morgan. Not after all that she's been through. Still recovering from a tragic accident eleven months ago that claimed the life of her husband and left her young daughter paralyzed, Annie has been trying to re-assemble the broken pieces of her life. Now, with Christmas fast approaching in the picturesque, snow-tinged village of Moonlight Falls, Annie wants nothing more than to get away from her shattered world. A nerve-wracking undercurrent of family secrets has made things even worse - the unknown truth of her mother's health, the guarded marital issues plaguing her sister, and the perilous events in Afghanistan surrounding her brother, a U.S. Marine. The safe and secure world in which Annie Morgan was raised - a world filled with love, hope and happiness - has been permanently eroded by unforeseen events. Can it ever be re-built? Then, just when all seems lost, a new, unanticipated relationship begins, one that not only gives Annie hope, but one that will change her life and the lives of those around her, in a profound way. Ultimately, this is a story of loss and recovery, love and hope - as Christmas reunites a broken family in the charming village of Moonlight Falls.

When a controversial fundraiser turns up dead at the school auction in a California beach town, organizers Rachel Berger and Emily Fryze are the prime suspects. Evidence mounts against them even as two LAPD detectives, confounded at every step by a collection of bizarre witnesses and strange fragments of evidence, try to solve The Mom Prom Murder.

Haunted by childhood traumas, happily married Katy Welborn is at a crossroads: in her late 30s, her biological clock ticking, she has survived cancer but her fears of family skeletons dangling in the genetic closet have paralyzed her from becoming pregnant. That's when her long-departed Grandmother Nellie appears as sort of a guardian angel, leading Katy on a journey back through the tortured pages of her past. With unexpected humor and often profound insights, Katy revisits a series of traumatic encounters: a severely schizophrenic uncle whose presence threatens the entire family, an emotionally unstable sister who has spiraled into the lost zone of southern California's 1960s drug-infused counterculture; and a well-meaning suburban family torn apart by its own bizarre eccentricities. Set in the 1990s, with flashbacks to the 1950s and 1960s, Katy's Ghost takes readers into painful territory, captured with a soft soul.