"Stay and die, or run and survive. Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five, surviving a merciless foster care system by relying on each other. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on. When Tommy is drafted for the war, the twins are faced with a choice: accept their fate...

Colorado sheriff Dade Logan has waited twenty years to reunite with his long lost sister, daisy. But when she finally turns up, they barely recognise each other. That's because the beautiful stranger isn't daisy, but her childhood friend, Maggie, on the run from an impending marriage.

Determined to connect with her last living family member, Karissa Landon tracks down her cousin -- and finds the woman murdered and her baby boy in danger. Now she's running for both their lives, and her only hope is a former firefighter. Hunter Raines is hiding secrets, but he'll make it his mission to protect Karissa and her infant charge... at all costs.

From New York and Hollywood to France, a family of four friends are compelled to reevaluate their lives and strengthen their commitments.

"Scottish Highlands, 1329. Sir James McKenna, second son of the powerful McKenna Chief, knows he has found his destiny when he falls in love with sweet Lady Davina Armstrong, niece of the Armstrong Chief. Orphaned in childhood, Davina has always felt like an outsider, and with James finally feels that she belongs. But their plans for a happy future are shattered after a brutal attack by a band of rogues. Horrified, Davina's overprotective family quickly...

In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man.-- NoveList.

Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant from the North after accidentally killing one of her guards. But there's more to Purity than meets the eye--for it soon becomes clear that the kingdom of Jackals' only hope against an ancient evil are this strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.

"A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her former family home-and about what it means to be truly seen after becoming lost in life."--

Haskell Maloney returns to the University of Chicago's exotic Oriental Institute in search of the truth about the parents she lost at birth.

"Sarah Yoder belongs to a Plain community in Oklahoma, but her days are far from simple. Life suddenly gets complicated when a series of tragic events unfold, leaving her in charge of the household. Alone with her younger siblings, Sarah is exhausted but finally at peace. Then she nearly runs over a small Hispanic boy with her buggy--and somehow finds herself sheltering two more orphans."--From WorldCat.