Rebecca A Engel: 20 books

Does a life insurance policy mean a death sentence? That's what Valerie Urniak Harris thinks when she discovers her best friend has taken out a hefty insurance policy on herself with her newly found birth mother as its beneficiary. Valerie is sure that the birth mother is not the person she...

Brooke Carter knows exactly who she is:  a native Californian, the daughter of a professor and a librarian, a teacher who is about to complete her first year of teaching in Madison, Wisconsin, where she moved after graduation. So why, when asked her name after receiving a head injury, does...

Decades after Joyce Manning Stern had all the gargoyles removed from the estate she had inherited, she learns the truth: while the gargoyles had been removed from her home, a few remained in the caves on the property. This was not good news. When she'd first arrived to take possession of the...

Lauren Clark had certain expectations when she accepted an invitation from a college classmate to a mini-reunion in her new rural home. But it was what she didn't expect that threw her life in turmoil. Lauren expected the reunion to give her time to reconnect and reminisce with three old...

Valerie Urniak is a hairdresser with a difference. She can shrink your head as well as style your hair. Valerie gave up a promising career as a psychologist to return to the vocation that put her through school. Her belief is that she's still helping people, but in a much more hands-on manner. Then,...

A dead-end job. An unrequited crush. A break-in and near assault. Life was not going too well for Joyce Manning. Given her circumstances, it wasn't surprising she was willing to accept the strange condition in the will of  a heretofore-unknown relative. Joyce would inherit a house, along with...