Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but...

Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions...The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff...

Dellarobia Turnbow is a discontent farm wife engaging in a flirtatious relationship with a younger man when she discovers an unusual fire in a forested valley behind her house. This curiosity causes a stir in the scientific and local communities, garnering a great deal of media attention and leads to Dellarobia confronting and questioning everything she thought she believed in.

Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow - and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was beyond her, but when romance takes her by surprise, she won't allow anything to keep her from her second chance at happiness.

"Stephanie Adams is a devoted stay-at-home mother, married to a successful lawyer in northern California, in a dead marriage she's stayed in for years for the sake of her children. Then, on a ski trip in Squaw Valley, her fifty-two-year-old husband dies suddenly and all bets are off"--Page [4] of cover. "Struggling to achieve an independent life when her stale marriage abruptly ends, Stephanie Adams embarks on an impulsive road trip and discovers...

"A desire for absolution brought ex-con Travis Alden to Paradise Peak. When he finds honest work at Paradise Peak Ranch, he shelves his plan to unburden his guilty secret. Instead he works alongside the very people his transgressions hurt the most. Travis seizes the opportunity to do good, to earn the respect his new boss shows him. Only Travis doesn't count on his feelings for his boss's beautiful niece. Hannah Newsome is a woman with a past as bleak...

A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion outside of Memphis. Now, Stella Rothchild, a widow with two young boys, has moved back to her roots and into her new role as manager of the nursery at Harper House. As she settles in and establishes relationships with the house's mistress, and begins a budding romance with handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge, the ghostly Harper Bride who walks the halls at night singing lullabies...

Haunted by a twenty-year-old unsolved crime, FBI agent Quentin Hayes attempts to put the mystery to rest and is joined by Diana Brisco, a woman struggling to unlock the meaning of her nightmares about a long-vanished child.

"The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...

It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...