From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.

In the rural town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney struggles to deal with change as her daughter enters her teen years, growing more and more strong-willed, and Ave Maria embarks on a journey into her past that she never thought she would take.

This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight, and searing suspense. Alexandra Cooper,...

The greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea was once a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

Tim Holden left his brutal cousin's home, vowing to return some day and avenge the wrongs he had suffered there. On the first night of his journey he was captured by two renegades. Here he was going to face adversaries far more dangerous than any he had met in the past.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as...

Despite to escape her lecherous stepfather, flame-haired Brianna Quinn seeks refuge with the Duke of Huntley, a childhood friend. But her hopes crumble when she discovers that Edmond, the duke's hot-blood twin, masquerading as the duke to thwart an assassination scheme.

Discusses and analyzes twenty plots that recur in all genres of fiction and provides information for writers on how to develop the plots for use in their own stories.

In the years following the Civil War, wealthy young northerner Anson Dodge finds love, loss, and purpose on St. Simons Island, Georgia, where he meets two life-changing women, the passionate Ellen and comforting Anna, and rebuilds the war-torn Christ Church Frederica.

Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson arrive in Rita Blanca in the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1876 after their father's death, where Jackson becomes a deputy sheriff and Nellie runs the town telegraph.