Obsessive-compulsive Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts everything, a habit that has alienated her from most of her family and put her on disability from her teaching job--due to a former student's parents claim that she was insane--but she never counted on meeting Seamus Joseph O'Reilly at the café.

When three-year-old Maddalena and her infant sister, Chiaretta, are abandoned at a Venice's hospital, Chiaretta earns a position as a soloist and aristocratic marriage while the dark, quiet Maddalena eventually takes up the violin with Antonio Vivaldi, a controversial musician who becomes her teacher and expresses his love in his music.

A sequel to "Bad Girl Creek" in which Mary Madigan, having dumped her drunken rodeo-crooner lover, sets off on a cross-country jaunt, earning her way winning karaoke contests, falling for a man who might be another bad choice, and meeting up with the women of Bad Girl Creek--a flower farm on the central California coast.

Alba, having spent time in and out of the Abenaki Mental Hospital for ten years trying to control her manic depression, becomes romantically involved with Oscar, a drug addict in denial, and together they try to right the wrong done to Mary, a woman committed by her husband seventy years earlier and who left letters to her children in the pages of the hospital's library books.

This second book in Nora Roberts trilogy centers on librarian Dana Steele, one of the three young women in a quest for the keys to a mystical box that holds the trapped souls of three Celtic demigoddesses imprisoned by a jealous sorcerer. Her search leads her to author Jack Hawke, but their prior romantic history complicates things when the two of them are forced into working together to locate the next key.

Set in 17th-century China, See's fifth novel is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. (From Publishers Weekly)