Central Kansas Library System

Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't...

They survived extinction—but at what cost? What If…The blood of the Ancients, nearly lost, now flows in the veins of their hybrid descendants, the Sassen and the Akassa. But though they share the same past, their futures are destined to diverge.Alone and unprepared...The mantle of leadership lies heaviest on those unprepared to accept its weight. Burdened with a responsibility she did not want, Pan, daughter of Moc’Tor, searches for the answers...