Troughton Line

Ryder Woodbein might have taken Yvette Bruner to the prom but that was ages ago and he hasn't dealt with the family since. Now his job prepping the Troughton property for market puts him just over their back fence. There he'll contend with some scores the Bruner kids want to settle and their father's desire for a lake view, as well as greedy realtors and ghost-hunting history buffs.

Teresa Hubley was born in Minneapolis and moved every couple of years after that, winding up in a handful of small Midwestern towns, suburban California and even west Africa. As an adult, she acquired a doctoral degree in anthropology and has lived most of her life in Maine, where she works in the health field. She usually has too many books to keep track of going at any time on her reading list. Favorite authors include Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters, and Dave Barry. Lunch out with Teresa and her family usually includes the reading of a few pages while the meal is delivered. When she's not reading or writing, she might be drawing, going for a long walk, or sneaking a guilty pleasure moment playing games on her tablet.