Eddie dies on his eighty-third birthday in a tragic accident - He awakens in the afterlife where he learns that heaven is where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it.
Book 1 in, The O'Malley Series. A CBA Bestseller. Kate O'Malley's specialty is hostage situations, and she's learned to depend only on herself in a crisis. But now Kate's a target. Someone's been sending her black roses . . . maybe the same person who just blew up an airplane and blamed her. Faced with the shocking evidence that the bomber may be someone she knows, Kate has to decide if FBI special agent Dave Richman - and the God he trusts so implicitly - is all he's supposed to be.
The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of Black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
A wonderfully realised ""why-done-it"" mystery set,in 1940s Florida, Dan Ewing is the manager of the,Caloosa Hotel, which privately caters to the very,special needs of certain male guests, and Bud,Wright is a police detective whose passionate,desire for Dan is in conflict with his desire to,shut Dan's business down. When one black man and,one white man are suddenly killed in an apparent,murder suicide, Dan and Bud find themselves up,against local business, political and religious,leaders as they are entrenched in one small,southern's town's deeply hidden secrets.