This story of a 50-something grandmother is set in the Caribbean on a fictional island. As she begins menopause, her special power for finding lost things returns, something she hasn’t been able to do since childhood. This Award-winning Canadian author deftly blends Afro-Caribbean folk themes throughout this magical tale of love and loss, personal transitions, and family.

It is supposed to be happy times for financial wizard Laura Caldwell and her husband, Detective James Carter, on their vacation to Maui. Trouble begins when someone shoots at Laura’s cousin. They return to Philadelphia and things get worse as the Mob trails their every move. Banks concludes her Trust series with a bang, giving her fans a tension-filled, sensuous thriller and a heroine who is as tough as she is stylish.

Tademy left corporate America to explore her family’s roots. Her first novel about her roots became a New York Times bestseller. Here, she tackles a different branch of her family tree, skillfully portraying the repercussions of what became known as the Colfax Riot. In 1873, during reconstruction, black voters in Colfax, LA, many of whom were freed slaves, took up arms to install the legally elected white Republican Party sheriff, who was seen by angry whites as a hated carpetbagger. A violent standoff at the town courthouse resulted in great loss of life and ushered in a new era of intimidation and discrimination that many Southern blacks had hoped was ending with Reconstruction. This engrossing family saga spans several generations while bringing an African American perspective to a very painful time in U.S. history.

Three women—Serena, a stay-at-home mom; Erika, who is haunted by her abusive past; and Tawana, a lawyer trying not to let her ambitions destroy her life—turn to each other, and to God, to unleash their inner beauty.