Anne Hawthorne
After losing his best friend Charlie on Christmas Eve, Bobby Whiteside ventures out onto the lake where they played games of winter hockey. Upon shoveling the ice surface he discovers a magic, perfectly groomed hockey rink that appears only at night in his presence. When a development company starts purchasing lake frontage, Bobby joins forces with his high school crush to rally the town to play one last game on the night pond.
With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again. Like the Prodigal story, Heart of the Country is a tale of a father’s unconditional love. He simply wants a relationship with his children, and once that relationship is restored, he begins to create healing for his broken daughter. Her marriage has to be rebuilt, her belief in herself, and her peace with her mother’s death all come together through the quiet, selfless guidance of her loving father. The novel, written by Rene Gutteridge from the original screenplay by filmmaker John Ward, takes us from the glamour of Manhattan to the open beauty of the fields of rural Columbus County, North Carolina as the timeless tale of the Prodigal Son is reborn!
Denied the promotion she wanted, Alexandria Newmar, seduces her new boss’ husband. When a heated argument with her boss turns deadly, Alex frames her boss’ husband for murder. Police detectives, Kate Kincaid and Ed Morrow, become suspicious and begin to question the evidence. As the detectives get closer to the truth, Alex accuses them of sexual assault in a bizarre game of Russian Roulette. Disgraced and dismissed from the police force, Kate and Ed set out for revenge. As the deception escalates, the cat-and-mouse game leads to a shocking final confrontation. Nothing is what it seems in the provocative psychological thriller Simple Revenge.
A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
TV presenter Will Chaney is as cute as they get and a dear devoted daddy to his pre-teen son Benjamin ‘Ben’. Alas the somewhat shy, confused boy is the only good thing that came out of Will’s marriage. Under divorce custody rules Will picks up Ben at Denver airport at the start – and near tears drops him off again at the end of every major school holiday. There Will meets divorcée Jane, who similarly picks up and drops off her daughter. Both good, involuntarily part-time parents hold back dating to spare their kids another traumatic break-up. Luckily their best friends, Will’s cameraman Charlie and Jane’s sister Georgia, encourage them to go out together. Once Ben gets used to the situation, at last saying ‘dad’ instead of Will, he gives his crucial blessing, even picks Jane over the only other date dad presented to him, so exit Maddie. Finally Will considers a bold move..