It’s summertime in the Oak Forest. School is out and long play days are in. But summer, like every other season, has its challenges and disappointments for Geraldine Woolkins, a young mouse. She struggles with feeling different from other creatures in the Oak Forest, and with overcoming her fears—especially when she can’t understand why she’s afraid. But in the midst of her challenges, Geraldine discovers that books, family, and friends, as well as Very Very Big Hands, will carry her through. Ten stories follow the Woolkins mouse family—Papa, Mama, Geraldine, and Button—from July, with its hot and dry days, to September, with its first whispers of autumn.

Coming in 2023.

Anna Denning and her fiancé are determined to spend a restful weekend at a mountain hotel. Sleeping late, reading books by a roaring fire. All they have to do is ignore the raging snowstorm outside and the hotel’s strange guests and surly staff inside. But when one of those guests, a newspaper reporter, tells Anna the police are investigating two of the other guests—and that she’s been sent to spy on them—Anna’s hopes for a quiet getaway begin to fade. They’re dashed altogether when one of the guests is murdered and Anna realizes she’s sharing her weekend with a cold-hearted killer. In order to survive, Anna must uncover the truth about her fellow guests. Who are these people? And what has brought them together, to an isolated hotel in the middle of a Colorado snowstorm?

Summoned by her father to Elk Park, Melinda Maxwell hopes to finally learn why he cut off all contact with his family and became the monster she believes him to be. But four days into her stay at his house, he remains silent about his history. And when Melinda questions him about his membership in the January Club, her father reacts with fury. Desperate to bring his hidden past to light, Melinda hires Anna Denning to locate her long-lost grandparents in hopes they can help. Already immersed in trying to locate the family of a murdered man for the police, Anna accepts the new challenge. When Anna uncovers clues that suggest Melinda’s father and the murdered man are connected, she agrees to accompany Melinda to the January Club’s annual meeting. At first inclined to dismiss the club’s members as eccentric Read more…

When the groundskeeper of the Morgan-Sadler House finds a figure propped against a beehive, a pumpkin in place of its head, he assumes it’s a Halloween prank. But the cruel display conceals the body of Russell Thurman, a founding member of the Elk Valley Historical Society. Anna Denning soon discovers that Thurman was secretly researching the family trees of two other society members and intended to hire her to complete his work. So when a friend of the victim pleads with Anna to finish what Thurman started, Anna reluctantly agrees. Her decision leads her into a disturbing world of lies, concealed identities, and the occult. With stubborn resolve, and facing major changes in her personal life, Anna uses all the tools in her genealogy toolbox to get to the bottom of things. Why was Thurman engaged in his secret research? Read more…

When the owner of a mansion in the Colorado mountains hires Anna Denning to research his family tree, it’s Anna’s dream come true. A library brimming with old documents, an undiscovered family history—what more could a genealogist want? Excited by the possibilities and fueled by a new love in her life, Anna is undeterred by rumors that a ghost haunts the mansion. And she’s intrigued when the mansion’s owner presents her with an additional request: He wants her to prove his home is haunted. Events take a deadly turn when a gardener is found dead on the mansion’s grounds. At first his death appears to be a drug overdose, but the mansion’s housekeeper swears the man didn’t take drugs. And as Anna begins to uncover records that suggest the ghost rumors are more than idle talk, strange things start to Read more…