Ruby Sisson Library

Lovejoy finds himself shanghaied aboard a luxurious cruise ship en route to Russia and a prisoner of a group of schemers who hope to use his talents to steal Russia's legendary "amber room" and ransom it back in Great Britain.

In the decade since high school graduation, Christine Sawyer has realized her dream of opening Treasure Hunting Antique Mall. She's happy with her life-- if a bit lonely. She was always less lucky in love than her fraternal twin sister, Britney. Brent Nickelson is trying to come to grips with the shambles his life has become: after high school, an injury ended his planned football career, and now he's lost his construction business. When his great-aunt...

2009: When Julia Conley learns that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes its a joke. Wrapped up in her New York life, she hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill, however, to reluctantly sort through the house-with the help of her cousin Natasha and an attractive antiques dealer...

A novel on the oddball residents of a Fort Worth neighborhood. Among them is Aura, so fat she is unaware she is pregnant, and Carl who is dismantling his house to build a boat on which to sail away with Nadine, owner of a used clothing store.

Precious Rafferty, an American antiques dealer living in Paris, is not one to let a man sweep her off her feet. Until she meets Bennett James. She doesn't know much about his personal or business life in Shanghai, but James appears perfect in every way. That is until a cousin sends an urgent message about Precious's new love and asks that they meet in Venice.

Haunted by the serial murders committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate years earlier, Manhattan collector of antiquities Lowell finds the case further complicated by a self-appointed teen detective.

Antique dealer Jade Fitzgerald, thriving in her career and engaged to marry lawyer Maxwell Charles Benson, is forced to face the pain of the past and make important decisions about the future when her hippie mother Beryl and her wild younger sister Willow show up in Whisper Hollow, Tennessee, for the wedding.

"Maggie and her friends have the task of cleaning out an old summer cottage while finding missing art and discovering what really happened to an artist who disappeared in the 1920s" -- from the author's blog, Penmad.

An electrifying novel about disputed territory, sibling love, and devastating revenge. In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution...