My Books

A boy with revenge in his heart. A girl who's lost hope. Only time separates them–but for how long?

1943: Born to an American mother and Italian father who died shortly after he was born, Peter Chiappetta is an eighteen-year-old boy with a flawless memory and a knack for storytelling. Living in Venice gives him inspiration for stories–and even the chance to be part of a family again. However, Peter's happy life is shattered when disaster befalls his family and leaves him looking for revenge.

1965: Eileen Madison is a high school senior and would-be journalist tired of keeping up appearances and worrying about the future. Determined to have a carefree summer before she begins college, Eileen decides to join some of her classmates and spend the summer in Italy. In Venice, Eileen is immediately intrigued by a quiet, twenty-year-old gondolier. As the two get to know one another, Eileen finds herself falling for the young man . . . But there's a lot the two don't know about each other.

As the lives of Peter and Eileen begin to intertwine, a strange source of magic seems to be controlling their destinies. When they find out the truth, will they let it draw them closer together, or tear them apart?

During the autumn of 1986, two brothers struggle to get by.  One is searching for his family, and the other for freedom – but both end up finding much more than they bargained for.

When Tim Ryder made a promise to his younger brother in 1983, he couldn’t predict the obstacles he would face that would prevent him from keeping that promise.  Now, at seventeen, all Tim wants is to be reunited with his brother, compelling him to travel through the state of North Carolina to find him.

Over the past three years, Mark Ryder has become a very different person from the ten-year-old kid his brother used to know.  Angry at the world after the sudden death of his parents, Mark runs away from the foster home where he lives, desperate for freedom and convinced that his brother is never coming back for him.

The two drastically different brothers set off to find what they are looking for and discover that life has other plans.  When Tim meets the charming Kate Woodland and Mark crosses paths with seven-year-old Josh O’Brien, a little boy in need of a friend, both learn how to take life as it comes… and find something they didn’t know they were looking for.