DEAR ISABELLE
Softcover | Fiction | Spring 2007 | Harbor House | $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-891799-70-9

When a long-distance relationship goes wrong in the worst possible way…When he's not as far away as you think he is… And when you're too scared to run…

All you have are words.

Jessica Swan's debut novel makes a big splash in the world of psycho-dramas. Dear Isabelle explores the depths of human memory in its most frail and vulnerable moments. Just weeks after moving to Seattle, everything starts to go wrong for Isabelle. Soon after a dramatic break-up with James, her well-bred British boyfriend, Isabelle learns that he's deathly ill. Swimming in a world fraught with mysterious masquerades, drugs, and lies, Isabelle soon finds truths shattered and painful secrets revealed.

THE SECRET LIVES OF A GHOSTWRITER
Hardcover | Fiction | Upcoming

"In The Secret Lives of a Ghostwriter, Julia is an aspiring novelist who pays her bills by working in the mysterious underbelly of the publishing world as a ghostwriter in San Francisco while struggling with her newlywed marriage without losing her sanity or her sense of humor. Like a magician who finally divulges her trick mirrors and phony swords, Julia reveals the juicy secrets of the ghostwriting business and the thrill of living multiple lives— all while learning valuable secrets of her own for the ultimate "housewife's revenge' against her sweet, but short-tempered husband, Leo." COMING SOON.

INSIDE THE CLOUDS
Hardcover | Fiction | Upcoming

"Inside the Clouds is a haunting tale of escape and survival against the most impossible odds. Swan uniquely weaves together two stories, side by side, set on opposite sides of the earth: One in Half Moon Bay, California and the other in Rwanda, Africa during the horrific genocide of 1994. The effect is gripping as the two stories become one by the end. Swan's emotional sensitivity for her characters leaves a lasting impression." COMING SOON.