Lisa Cordileone

When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative...

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the...

Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall Station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refurgees on a container ship. With the jump station destroyed and resources scarce, their only option is to return to Kerenza, the planet where it all started but who know what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile, Kady's cousin Ahsa survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's...