Central Kansas Library System

John Waters is a succesful businessman and a happy family man-but his life comes crashing down around him with one word from a beautiful stranger:"Soon."Suddenly he is face to face with a memory from his past-on an obsession that he thought he had escaped.One that plunges him into the darkest depths of love and passion.

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...