In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering...

California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside.  Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything. Michael obeys God’s call...

It isn't easy for sweet young Maude Gascoigne, from a moldering plantation near Charleston, to fit in when her new husband, sterling-silver Peter Chambliss takes her to the summer place. For the first few decades Maude battles it out with her insufferable, hypercritical mother-in-law, the drunken and lecherous husband of her best friend, Amy Potter, and even Peter himself--a depressive, hermetic man who just sails away whenever things get rough. Gradually,...

Follows the lives of Casey, a nurse, and Mac, an idealistic officer, who fall in love in Vietnam during the terror of the Tet offensive and are separated stateside, only to be reunited in a passionate display of unconditional love.

On a dark and dangerous road, British adventurer Colonel Tyrone Rycroft saves the life of an alluring countess and is drawn into a web of intrigue and seduction in the treacherous imperial court.

Bess Curran is shaken from her comfortable, independent, post-divorcelife when her daughter becomes pregnant and plans a wedding in which she asks both parents to walk her down the aisle.

In a small seaside Irish town in the late 1950s, two very different children are growing up, shouting their hearts desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far from Castlebay, a place empty and gloomy in winter but bustling with visitors in the gaudy days of summer. One of the children is Clare, shopkeeper Tom O'Brien's younger daughter. She wins a scholarship to University College, Dublin, and seems set for academic glory....

The ordinary life of legal secretary Linda Voss explodes into passion with her handsome boss and into danger as an OSS spy caught in the heart of Nazi Germany.

Languishing in the London home of her uncle, Chelsea Myles is offered an escape when she is asked to switch identities with a young woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Australia.

Anna Reardon escapes a shameful life in Boston by becoming the mail-order bride of Karl Lindstrom and finds all her strength and courage tested as she struggles to build a new world for herself in the rugged wilderness of nineteenth-century Minnesota.