Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, has left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a backpack, he is walking from Seattle to Key West, the farthest destination on his map. Now almost halfway through his trek, Alan sets out to walk the nearly 1,000 miles between South Dakota and St. Louis, but it's...

"Every antique tells a story. Cullen and Luna Bodman learned that through their parents' furniture business. Now, with their restoration shop and caf̌, they often find themselves at the center of those stories, unraveling mysteries for their clients. The old steamer chest that Cullen receives from an anonymous source is fascinating in its own right. But inside, Cullen discovers more--a locked diary accompanied by a letter, asking for the diary to...

For nearly three hundred years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher. Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing-for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed. As Mary's gripping tale of rebellion and betrayal is...

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher wants to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce and from the vicious cyberbullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O'Connell, an Irish maid working for a wealthy Massachusetts family. The catch? Bridget lives only in the pages of a dusty old diary Natalie...

Seventeen year old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family....

When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love.

Melanie Barnett has figured out that love and career don't mix. While cleaning her Jordan MX car, a scarlet-red symbol of the Jazz Age's independent women that she inherited from her great-great-great-aunt Violet, Melanie finds a secret compartment holding Violet's weathered journal. In 1921 Violet Bond lived a life of adventure in Detroit. But in an era of speakeasies, financial windfalls, free-spirited friends, and unexpected romance, it was easy...

In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly...

A few weeks before Christmas Jacob Churcher receives a call informing him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him. Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try to reconcile with the past. While cleaning out the house, he discovers a diary left by a woman named Noel, who stayed with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. Then Jacob has an unexpected visitor: Rachel, a woman looking for the mother who put her up for...

Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover an old Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings. Inspired to dig deep into her family's past, she visits a retired history teacher for answers. Two days later he's dead. Detective Patrik Hedstrom is on paternity leave, but his wife's inquiries appear to have set off a chain of murders and he's finding it hard to keep out of the investigation. Reluctantly Erica must read her mother's wartime diaries....