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Mercy Train
Three generations of women, their stories intertwined to span the twentieth century. In 1900, Violet, who lives with her opium-addicted mother in New York City, boards an orphan train bound for the Midwest. In 2000, her granddaughter Sam is a struggling new mother. It’s been a year since her mother Iris died, when a box of Iris’s things arrives on her doorstep. A year earlier, Iris is dying of breast cancer. She decides that if death doesn’t come soon, she’ll take matters into her own hands…
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No One Tells Everything
Grace copyedits other people’s writing, drinks alone in the same bar every night, and observes life from the sidelines. But when a local co-ed is found dead, and a college student from Grace’s hometown is arrested for the murder, something within her stirs. The newspapers claim that Charles is a spoiled rich kid who killed because of a rebuffed sexual advance. Yet Grace senses deeper layers to the story and becomes consumed by discovering the truth behind the crime…
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Calling Out
After being dumped by her boyfriend, Jane quits her job in New York City, drives west, and lands in Salt Lake City, where she takes a job answering phones at an escort agency. As Jane struggles to find companionship and purpose in her new surroundings, she mothers the escorts and flirts with callers. But the pull of mystery and danger is too great. Boundaries begin to blur, and Jane inches toward a place that would have once been unthinkable…
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