Award–winning author Joe Haldeman explores a world where time is money—and for some, both are running out. The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging body—as long as you can pay the enormous fee. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he needs to repeat the procedure. But while scrambling for his next essential million, he meets a woman from a previous life—and makes a chilling discovery…
Bookshop owner, bibliotherapist, and occasional sleuth Nora Pennington must enlist the help of her brilliant, brassy librarian friend to unravel the connection between The Scarlet Letter, an obscure 19th century writer, and a dead hiker.
As friends and family gather for the funeral of charming and charismatic Seb Cooper, three women sit in the congregation, mourning his loss. Three women who loved Seb in their own different ways. Three women whose lives have now changed forever. But only one woman knows what really happened at the end, and only one truly had his heart…
