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 In this page-turning mystery-romance, young widow Lauren Serra purchases a deteriorating nineteenth century Queen Anne Victorian, in hopes that it might be the solution to the financial problems left by her recently deceased husband. Once she and her mother move in, they begin to uncover clues to the home’s tragic family secrets, hidden for almost a century. In discovering the house’s secrets, Lauren and her mother begin to uncover the foundation for rebuilding their lives. 

In Ring Road, smart and confident, Lauren Serra is inpatient to move into her new home. Why wouldn’t she be? The eighteenth century farmhouse holds over 200 years of Ring Family history, including clues to the missing Ring ruby pendant.  But Lauren wants more from the home than the mystery it promises. She hopes the house will fertilize the child she and her new husband Drew have been storking for the past few years. Lauren’s connections with the Ring family deepen as they settle into the home. When she is confronted with the tragic Ring family secrets, an untoward event nearly tears her marriage apart. Close companions in sorrow, Lauren and the Rings find strength in one another and the missing threads needed to mend their tattered lives. 

Mysteries are like the moon.  They wax and wane, become clear, then disappear. Until the mystery appears again, in a whole new light. In the unsolved abduction of an infant from Saint Sebastian’s Hospital in 1963, that light flashed past Lois Gaffin while she was watching a home shopping show on TV.  When not consumed by her developing obsession with Lauren, the owner of the historic farmhouse across the street, Lois connects with Annie—the ghost she met in her newly-leased carriage house.  Something happened there, but Annie hasn’t told Lois what it is. Yet.  The mystery of the carriage house deepens after visits to the town records office, library, and historical society. Lois becomes convinced that the infant may have lived there. When Lois takes the next step in her relationship with Lauren, they begin to uncover critical clues to the carriage house history. A new romance with Gordon, the quirky town librarian, completes unwitting membership in their vintage mystery squad. While unfolding the mystery of the carriage house, Lois is faced with the choice to conquer the life challenges that brought her there or be conquered by them.

     At ten years old, Meredith Kazer was rarely found without a Nancy Drew book. When she finished the series, she moved onto the Hardy Boys Mysteries then Agatha Christie.  It's no wonder that when she began to pursue fiction, elements of mystery found their way into her romantic writing. 

     Meredith is a graduate of Fairfield University's MFA program and earned a PhD from New York University. Prior to pursuing fiction, she published eleven professional nursing books and earned four American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards.  As a full-time academic, she spends most of her free time with her husband and adult children, reading and writing.