Veronica H. Hart

Will the arrival of a newly discovered granddaughter spoil Doll's wedding? The wedding is a week away and Doll is having second thoughts as she observes Michael's reactions to her quirky family.

A family is destroyed when American Brandon disappears into North Korea. Twenty years later, when he is returned, all their lives are once again changed forever. How can a man survive and adjust to a world that he only remembers for macaroni and cheese and Ninja Turtles?When Rim Kwang is released from a North Korean work camp and returns to his family as Brandon McLennan, everything he understood about life is turned upside down. His mother has died; his older brother is estranged from the family; his father is distant. Only his older sister seems to take an interest in helping him adjust to his new world, and even she has limits.Navigating his new world is more dangerous than returning. Can he find the strength to survive and bring his family back together? Or will he forever be stuck in North Korea?

Elisabeth Ackert-Riis has carried the pain of a devastating teenage trauma, and the difficulty of raising the daughter that resulted from it, for thirty-five years. She now seeks justice after learning the man is all but guaranteed the US presidential nomination at the July,1900 St. Louis convention in three months. A prospect she believes will destroy the country.She is determined to take revenge on Justin and reveal his true nature to everyone, including his adoring public. With the help of her constant companion, Ledger, an African, she'll stop at nothing to achieve her goal, even if it means destroying the life she's made, and using her daughter and granddaughters to bring him down.

Elena lost her piano in the bombing of Leningrad, but nothing could stop her dream of playing at Carnegie Hall in America. When Father announced they would walk to Germany, straight into the hands of the enemy, she continued to dream. Later, living under brutal conditions in a camp where she was forced to play for her captors, her dream began to slip.How long could she survive the relentless cold, the hunger, the humiliation of begging crumbs for herself and her fellow prisoners?Follow Elena Federovna from the night she leaves her beloved grandparents in the bombed-out basement of their former home in the besieged city and crosses the front lines with her parents into the arms of the enemy. Stay with her through her years in captivity as she learns about love and hate, both from the enemy and her own family, as she struggles to cling to her slowly fading dream. From the author: Inspired by true events. I first heard the story of Elena (who was an opera singer) while at college in the late sixties. Though I lost contact with the real Elena, her story haunted me. Before WWII, she was an ordinary little girl who loved playing the piano at home in Leningrad. In 1943, as people around them died of starvation, her father made a plan, a plan that would endanger them from the moment they tried to cross the front lines.