Pamela Woods-Jackson

Millie Olson would rather imagine life in the 19th century than face her 21st century life. At sixteen, she's already graduated high school and is expected to attend a top college, a challenge she isn't ready to face. While on a summer visit to her grandmother, she finds a diary written in 1865 that sets her history-loving heart on fire. But her grandmother insists she put aside academics to socialize with high school quarterback Zach MacMillan. The last thing Millie expects is a friendship with Zach, but as the sparks fly, she's forced to confront her fears - with a little help from 1865.

Emma has a secret-and not the good kind. She can hear people's thoughts. When Sara Davis, an adversarial school newspaper editor, convinces her to be the focus of the Senior Feature, Emma doesn't realize what she's getting herself into. Lacking Emma's cooperation, Sara writes the story anyway, setting off gossip and speculation. Worse yet, the article comes dangerously close to exposing Emma's secret and threatens her crush on the new boy at school, Nick Knight. Keeping her "talent" from derailing her social life becomes more and more difficult as classmates begin to suspect Sara was right about Emma.

Merry Halliday is staring down the barrel of her sixtieth birthday on December twenty-sixth, a daunting milestone for a widow of three years. Merry has always loved Christmas, and every year lovingly bakes her grandmother's special sugar cookies for friends and family. But then she learns that the school where she teaches has insurmountable financial problems, and if that's not bad enough, Merry finds out her adult daughter Robin is off to Hawaii with fianc Elijah. It's looking like a lonely Christmas and birthday, and worse yet, her career is now in jeopardy. Faced with spending Christmas alone with her cat Spookie, Merry accepts an out-of-the-blue invitation to spend Christmas with a handsome man and his friends at a Bed and Breakfast in Indianapolis. With her birthday just two days away, Merry wonders what other surprises are in store. She's about to find out

Romeo and Juliet didn't really die. Well, their earthly bodies were entombed after their fifteenth century suicides, forcing their spirits to watch helplessly from The Other Side as their families renewed their centuries-old feud. With the help of their Spirit Guides and Heavenly Counselor, they decide to try again for a life together on Earth and to reunite their quarreling families. Their attempts over the next four centuries all fail, partly because another soul, Rose, believes that she and Romeo are the true soul mates and continually comes between them. Heavenly Counselor Everman grants the star-crossed lovers one last chance. The two of them find themselves in 21st century Indianapolis, both employed in the retail shoe industry. Jewish Julianne Caplan and Roman Montgomery, a Catholic, must navigate the world of business, thwart Rosaline, overcome their families' hatred of one another, and avoid being torn apart. Will this life end like all the rest?

Caryn Alderson may be a psychic medium, but she can't predict her own life. She's totally blindsided when she discovers her boyfriend has cheated on her. Her best friend Annabeth attempts to jump-start Caryn's stalled love life by introducing her to Gary Riddell, a fellow college freshman who can talk to ghosts. To paranormal groupie Annabeth, their abilities make them the perfect match. Unfortunately, Gary's acting career and Caryn's love of journalism clash when Caryn writes a hatchet piece about Gary's acting abilities, and then publishes it in the campus newspaper. Dating is definitely out Then the two of them are asked to help the campus Ghost Stalkers club investigate a haunting at a local farmhouse. Caryn and Gary must combine their offsetting paranormal skills to locate more than just ghosts.

Susan Benedict and her daughters Caroline, the sensible one, Allie the high-strung artist, and teenage Megan, are stunned to learn they are being booted out of their family home when her ex-husband Daniel's new trophy wife wants the social status the address will bring her. The Benedict women find themselves in unexpected financial straits, so oldest daughter Caroline is determined to help make ends meet. However, in order to do that, she must consider leaving not only the job she loves, but the man who has her heart - a man engaged to someone else. All four women doubt their ability to make the transitions necessary to succeed, but deep within each lies a well of strength only adversity can uncover.