Matt Merkl: 2 books

Sixteen years after the night that changed everything, forty-five year-old Ava Burris longs to be something more than “Judge Mommy.” Just when this dream seems most elusive a postcard sets her on a new course - back to an old time. Ava’s journey north to New England leaves time to wonder - will...

Hopelessly arthritic, young Sarah Batten seeks an unorthodox cure at a remote Irish clinic. It works spectacularly well but harbors a deadly secret. In a desperate race to reverse the treatment she must also elude clinic thugs who will stop at nothing, even murder. It all begins on a crisp New Hampshire...