On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were “You be good. I love you.” What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex’s case, headline news…
When Riley Callahan’s tour in Afghanistan is up, he intends to confess his feelings to Paige and win his best friend’s heart once and for all. All that changes when an IED takes the life of a comrade and leaves Riley an amputee…
Anna is a 30-year-old English teacher in need of adventure. She jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring 16-year-old T.J. Callahan, who is catching up after a year spent battling cancer into remission. But en route to the Callahan’s summer home their private plane crashes, stranding Anna and T.J. on an uninhabited island…
