SUSAN JAMES

Romantic, chaotic and terrifying, Catherine Parrs life unfolds like a romance novel. Married at seventeen to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at twenty, Catherine chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up in the turbulent terrors of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, she was captured by northern rebels, held hostage and suffered violence at their hands. Fleeing to the south shortly afterward, Catherine took refuge in the household of Princess Mary and in the arms of the kings brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Seymour. Her employment in Marys household brought her to the attention of Marys father, the unpredictable, often-wed Henry VIII. Desperately in love with Seymour, Catherine was forced into marriage with a king whose passion for her could not be hidden and who was determined to make her his queen.

Its happened again. When tragedy hits close to home, again, can solving this personal mystery unlock Cadys heart? Cady Colette has learned to structure her days in the ordered stacks of the smallest library in upstate New York. Living in the heart of the serene Finger Lakes, she has downshifted more each year since the disappearance of her husband six years agowithout a trace.Just as her life is regaining a hard-won equilibriumand she starts to open up to a bit of romancetragedy strikes her small-town American life, again. Can she handle another unsolved mystery? Will it leave her locked permanently in the void of the unknown, unable to move on and find peace? Will Blue, the investigator who never found her husband, have more answers this time? Will their efforts to team up open a new route for her, or end in a cold case once again?

Teenagers in trouble. Secrets everywhere. Can Cady and Blue get to the truth when it seems like the world is burning? Cady Colette has settled into some ease in her life as a librarian in the smallest library in upstate New York. Coming to terms with the disappearance of her husband six years previously has meant a new normal is finally accessible to her, and she feels she is getting closer. But when one of her book-club teenagers goes missing, Cady is forced to explore the seedy underbelly of the seemingly tranquil Finger Lakes region. Can she negotiate family dysfunction, generational failures, and the kinds of illegal activities that have never been part of her world, all while navigating her unsettled relationship with Blue, the investigator who put his life on the line for her? Can any of these ordinary people doing their best in extraordinary circumstances survive the journey unscathed? Or will the towns secrets explode outward, laying a path of destruction through the community and her relationship?