BOOKS

A PHOTO FROM THE PAST

This is a novel about a woman who for years carries someone else’s guilt as her own and lives with the conviction that she deserves punishment for what once happened to her.

It is a story of trauma that does not disappear, but changes shape and returns again — in a new city, under a new name, in the face of someone new who causes pain.

THE 38-SECOND PAUSE

The 38-Second Pause is about the moment when conviction becomes action — and action becomes irreversible. About truth pursued at a cost no one can calculate in advance, and about the dangerous human temptation to believe that being right releases us from responsibility for what follows.

Thirty-eight seconds bring Anna and Ethan together. Long afterward, they will still be living with what began in a pause.

THE LETTER, UNSEALED

Nearly one hundred million dollars move through The Letter, Unsealed, crossing countries, identities and years. Yet the larger the sum becomes, the less capable it is of repairing anything that was sacrificed for it.

In this story, people construct explanations that make their choices easier to live with — until self-justification becomes almost indistinguishable from truth. And some of them have had years to become very good at it.

MARK AND SOFIA

No one can make the right decision for another person, because no one can know what that decision will ultimately cost — or what an apparent mistake may unexpectedly give in return.

Mark thinks he can.

He is convinced that, at the right moment, one person can help another make a better choice.

But can anyone know whether changing a decision will also change a life for the better?