Michael Downend

DO THIS FOR ME Romance A dying woman not wanting her husband to be lonely after her death makes him promise to find someone to love as much as he loved her. She tells him that she will know if the woman he chooses is the right one and if she isn’t, promises to let him know and will guide him until he makes a choice that she feels is right for him – and her.

HIGH THIN CIRRUS Drama Old lovers meet in the imagination of one of them as she wanders one day down to the sea and he comes to take her away.

AREN'T YOU BONNIE BEDELIA? Comedy PEOPLE readers think they spot a star in a once famous NY celebrity hangout.

AN AMERICAN WIFE Drama An American soldier brings his new wife, a Polish Jew, home to his resentful and biased Irish Catholic family near the end of World War II.

THE TWO WIVES OF BEN DARLING Drama When Hattie Darling’s husband Ben dies on his first night home from an extended business trip, she is devastated until she finds among his belongings evidence that there had been another woman in his life.