In the summer of 1938, a ten-year-old girl followed her brother Bobby to a limestone quarry outside St. Louis. What she witnessed there — her oldest brother’s fall, the screaming, the stillness — she wouldn’t fully understand for decades. Not until she was old enough to piece together what Tommy and his best friend Eddie had been hiding. What...

Graham Tierney has spent thirty years writing the Oltrarno series—sweeping historical romances set in Renaissance Florence that have earned him critical acclaim, a devoted readership, and a Hollywood option. But since losing Simon, his husband of three decades, Graham hasn’t written a word. He’s been sitting alone in his Maine cottage, waiting...

Eli Pelletier has finally built a life that fits him. A small apartment north of Portland. Niles, the boyfriend he wasn’t sure he’d ever find. Graham Tierney down the road, the father figure he hadn’t known he needed. Then, on an ordinary Thursday afternoon, it all goes away.

Kieran Callahan, a twenty-two-year-old Portland paramedic, becomes the...