Mary Verdick: 6 books

Can two people from widely different cultures, she a graduate of Eastern schools and he a product of the San Toms pueblo, find happiness despite their different lineages? Author Mary Verdick, a Middletown native, who has traveled widely in the Southwest answers this question in a modern day love story. In...

She'd been eaten up with guilt all her life, afraid to face the truth, and now, in some strange way, by recalling what had happened in her family she felt almost liberated. It was as if a great weight had suddenly been lifted off her shoulders and now she was free-except for the door that had closed...

"That Certain Summer" tells the story of Sally Grimes, a feisty girl from Iowa, who gets a dream job writing the life story of famous actress, Diane Fenwick. She moves to a Gatsbyesque community in Connecticut and meets the actress's adorable twins, Meagan and Alec, and Rufus, a special...

Quite by accident, Meggie Dawson stumbles across an amazing stick as a child, an intriguing object that, all her life, often intervenes on her behalf, pointing her in the right direction. She is desperately in love with her stepbrother, Josh Hawkins, no relation, and he loves her too. But feeling...

Jenna Albertsen, a writer, has just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction but cant find the thing she wants most, love. She is saddened that her stepfather, Ned Albertsen, who raised her and whom she adores, cant get his novel published. But she is also shocked to hear that her dear friend Maribeth has...

Phoebe Fox is desperately unhappy when she flunks her audition at the School of American Ballet in New York, but agrees to help her great-aunt Weezy drive from Santa Fe to Denver. When they stop at a hot springs resort she meets Cody Moon, a blue-eyed charmer who works there, and they fall deeply...