Julia Weaver: 4 books

On a spring afternoon, the crumpled body of a very old woman lay dead at the foot of the stairs in her home in the Hollywood Hills. Jessie Mitchell, the old woman's widowed daughter in law, mourned the death as Bitty had been like a mother to her even before Jessie had married one of Bitty's grandsons. After...

When she was a small child, Lilly and her mother had lived with her Uncle John, an archaeologist, in an old caravanserai near Konya in Turkey. Her father, his brother, was excavating at another archaeological site in Syria. Lilly loved her Uncle John. He had recently had a heart attack, so when his...

When Valerie agreed to donate a few weekends to help her bookseller friend sort and catalog a private library, someone from her childhood reentered her life again. A wounded but recovering soldier, formerly stationed in Iraq, had inherited the house containing the library. Valeries weekends...

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...