#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana—where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house…
Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted—and obsessed—with it.
Determined...

"Bree Leake doesn't want to be tied down. She's had more jobs than she can count, and she plans to move as soon as the curtains fall on her less-than-minor stage role at The Barter--the oldest live performance theater in the US. But just when it's time to move on again, Bree's parents make her an offer: hold steady for a full year, and they will give her the one thing she's always wanted-- her grandmother's house. Her dreams are coming true.. until...

At the urging of his ancient grandmother, Lance Michelli travels to the old Sonoma villa once owned by his grandparents. Looking for clues to old documents that may be hidden there, he hires on as cook and carpenter for its present owner, Rese Barrett. Her beauty and spirit captivate Lance, yet he soon descovers that Rese has family secrets of her own that have been buried for years.

At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. The Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident, but many agreed with Cartwright that the shooting was deliberate. In response, Liza's adoptive parents changed her name to Celia, erasing her past. At age twenty-eight, Celia--a successful interior designer in Manhattan--marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence...

Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling,...

A valuable, unique reference for every homeowner, builder, contractor, inspector, real estate agent and property management company. National in scope, it accomplishes what no other homeowner book does--compiling every possible maintenance condition with references to homeowner and homebuilder responsibility. In a thorough, easy-to-read manner, it follows the format of the well-respected California version that has helped homeowners and builders avoid...

Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house hoping to forget her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt's untimely death.

This masterpiece by celebrated New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley is the mysterious story of a young Black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess...

Libby Sawyer and her father return from summer vacation to find another family living in their home. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family all the way from Romania to stake a decades-old claim on their house, and he has no plans to leave. As a contentious legal battle drags on, Libby finds herself drawn to Michael and his mysterious past. But she?ll soon have to choose between her family and a man with decidedly unclear intentions.