Showing results by narrator "Katherine Ryan" in Literature & Fiction

The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common…except for the fact that their daughters are married. When a nearby volcano erupts during their short vacation to a remote tropical island off the coast of Queensland, the two families find themselves stranded together for six weeks. With only two island employees making up the rest of their party, everyone is forced to question what—or who—they really want.

Nikki Thompson, best-selling mystery writer, is suffering from the worst writer’s block of her life after her boyfriend of five years tells her he never loved her. Heartbroken, she accepts an invitation to the 10th annual league of extraordinary writers authors’ retreat just north of Edinburgh, Scotland. The accommodations are something out of a fairy tale and the ghost is complimentary. Fearsome MacPherson, a Scottish Laird from the 18th century, roams the halls of Castle MacCulloch looking for the highland pride, something stolen from his family centuries before.