Hedie Rails travels to Jacques' Landing to marry the descendant of fur trader Jacques Ducharme and finds comfort in the journals of Jacques' wife, Annie.

The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of revenge and adventure. The young sailor Dantes is fallaciously charged with treason and loses his fiancé, his dreams and his life when he is locked up for thirteen years on the island prison of Chateau d'If. Mentored by another prisoner, Dantes finally escapes the prison, reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo and begins to exact his revenge on the people who set

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Lara faces many obstacles in her attempts to rescue Dannsair from the Baron of Athenry.

American graduate student Eloise Kelly, continuing her research on Napoleonic-era espionage, while fighting her attraction to Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects, uncovers the story of Mary Alsworthy, a raven-haired beauty who agrees to help Lord Vaughn infiltrate the ranks of the French spy, the Black Tulip, and finds she has captured not only the spy's attentions, but also that of her boss, Lord Vaughn.

In 1274, peace in the Middle East is threatened as Prince Edward plans a new Crusade, the Egyptian sultan's son comes under the influence of a soothsayer who wants to destroy the Christians, a group of Western merchants sets in motion a profitable, ruthless plan, and Will Campbell suspects that the Brethren have been betrayed.

A fictionalized account of the Donner Party tragedy told through the journal entries and letters of Tamsen Donner, the wife of George Donner, the leader of the party that, in 1846, set out for California and wound up trapped for four months in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Maria lives in Cuba during the mid-twentieth century and allows Ignacio, a strong-willed business man, to provide for her while she shares a passionate love affair with Nestor, a poor musician; meanwhile, Maria's daughter Teresa grows up in the United States.

Miss Bridie emigrates to America in 1856 and chooses to bring a shovel, which proves to be a useful tool throughout her life.

Chronicles the lives of the eccentric residents of Dogtown on Cape Ann in Massachusetts--home to widows, orphans, prostitutes, scoundrels, free Africans, and other characters--as the community begins its descent into oblivion in the early 1800s.

Lavender, known as La to her friends, flees London in 1939 hoping to escape the horrors of war and the memories of her shattered marriage, and to combat boredom and despair in her new town, La creates an orchestra that boosts the town's morale and shows people the beauty of music and friendship.