Cathy and Chris, entwined with the evil that haunts their children, live with the fearful spectre of Foxworth Hall and find they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape.

A farce telling the story of the Hardcastle family's mishaps and adventures in their undertaking to marry off a single daughter.

Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world.

John Baxter, having lost his first wife to cancer, plans for his wedding to Elaine and begins to come to terms with his decision to sell the Baxter house, while Katy and Dayne prepare for their theater's first play.

Country music star Tess McPhail returns to her small home town to help care for her ailing mother and discovers that her fame carries no weight with her family or with the good-looking man next door.

Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives.

The summer before she enters the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, and she discovers that love is about the most mixed-up thing that can possibly happen to you, especially since she has no mother to go to for advice.

All of Melody's beliefs about her life and her parents are shattered when her father dies in a mining accident and her mother pawns her off on his estranged relatives who all know some deep, dark secrets about her mom and dad and the circumstances of her birth.

Crissy Moore, one of six children born to Selina Trevarton, a woman who was disowned by her wealthy parents for marrying a coachman, swallows her pride after the death of her mother and goes to her grandmother for help, but while the old woman appears to be offering grudging assistance, she is really plotting to break up the family forever.

A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.