Böcker utgivna av Sydell Voeller

Sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert is miserable. She can't find her niche with the popular kids at school and she believes she is ugly. Then, too, after her mother deserted the family to pursue an acting career, Deanna's father has grown distant and embittered. Now Deanna is saddled with most of the chores at home--and she and her dad barely communicate. Yet Deanna's one happy escape is her volunteer work at the nearby children's hospital. There the activities director convinces her to get back into her ventriloquism, a creative skill her grandfather had taught her years earlier. Deanna and her puppet, Ramblin' Rosie, entertain and delight the young hospital patients, but Deanna is worried. What if the kids at school discover what she's doing? Will they think she's just "a baby" who still plays with dolls? Deanna takes the risk, but one problem soon leads to another. Can she ever gain acceptance at school, especially from Jason, a guy she has a major crush on? And most of all, can Deanna come to terms with her ventriloquism, and in so doing, come to terms with her mother's leaving?

Jessica Williams is bored living in her small town in Oregon, and the kids at school seem equally boring. Life is indeed dull for Jessica until Cam Easton moves into her neighborhood and teaches her how to skate. Soon she discovers she is falling in love with him, but she runs into a major obstacle. Most of the people in town despise skateboarders, including her father who is running for mayor. Worse, Jessica's involvement with the skaters suddenly poases a threat to his campaign. Can the skaters prove themselves worthy of the community's support? And most of all, can Jessica and Cam resolve their differences and find the true meaning of love?

Ivan was a class act! Marcie had felt it from the very first moment they'd met. But they were worlds apart. She was a local high school student leading a humdrum life. He was a dashing aerialist traveling with his circus family. Soon he would move on to the next town. Was it only a fly-by-night romance? She had to know. Her heart was teetering on a high wire. Where was her safety net? Had he fallen for her, or would he remain forever out of reach?

One year after Joanna Sullivan's husband, Kyle, died while fighting a house fire, Joanna makes a desperate attempt to start over. She moves to a new town, embarks on a new career at a local aquarium on the Oregon coast and attempts to refurbish a run-down duplex. Then Austin, her husband's brother, visits unexpectedly. He offers to stay and help her with the much needed repairs. Joanna soon discovers, however, that Austin's presence is proving more disturbing than helpful. His resemblance to Kyle is uncanny, thwarting her resolve to put her husband's memory to rest. Worse, she is strongly attracted to Austin, a veterinarian. He shares her love of nature, and the two find common ground as they work together to help clean up the beaches and save the native birds and wildlife from the encroachment of civilization.Can Joanna let go of her grief and love Austin in his own right? Or will he always remain the ghost of her ex-husband?

Psychology professor Vanessa Paris receives word that her father has disappeared from his fishing boat in Puget Sound near the San Juan Islands. She rushes to her childhood home at Kaloch Bay Lodge to try to help find him. Little does she realize that romance and intrigue are waiting around the corner.