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A portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. As Newland prepares to marry the docile May, his world is forever changed by the return of the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska.

Handsome. Risk taker. Experienced. Without a doubt, war hero Sean Wilder was the one. He seemed the perfect candidate to give her the memories of a lifetime in the few months she had left. Now all laura had to do was convince him to marry her. Investigator Sean Wilder knew there was something strange about Laura's proposal. The woman was the picture of health. Yet the innocent beauty truly believed that she was dying. It looked as though...

In the idyllic small town of Tucker,Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer.But when Mara O'Neill, her best friend and medical partner, inexplicably kills herself, Paige's comfortable life is suddenly shattered. Temporarily caring for Mara's newly adopted baby daughter while she comes to grips with her grief, Paige clings to the hope that, in time, her orderly life will return. What she hadn't counted on were the unexpected...

With her three children, beautiful home, and loving husband, Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy. Adam's job has cushioned them nicely over the years, and it should be a time of contentment, rewards, of new challenges together. But lately Adam has been working too late, too hard, at the office. Margaret is sure it's just the rumored takeover of his company--until she meets Randi, The Other Woman...Meanwhile, Nina, the orphaned cousin the Cranes...

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues...

Three books in one. One Pink Rose is about Travis Clayborne who escorts mail-order bride Emily Finnegan to Montana, where she will meet her groom-to-be. Although they begin on the wrong foot, along the journey the Bostonian beauty and gun-slinging law student discover a romance with each other. One White Rose is about Douglas Clayboren and a young widow named Isabel Grant who arrives at her ranch to purchase an Arabian stallion-and finds love....

After Skeeter breaks up with her boyfriend of three weeks, she falls in and out of love and wonders at her fickleness and the nature of love.

The daughter of an outlaw, Kate hoped to finally escape her past when she moved to Moose Gulch. It worked until a handsome stranger began taking his meals at the hotel where Kate worked.

Homer Smith, a black ex-GI, encounters Mother Maria Marthe, the leader of a group of German-speaking nuns, and is soon playing a pivotal role in helping them realize their dream of building an adobe chapel in the desert.

Stephen Nowell - first a boy caught in the whirlwind of history. Torn from the arms of his family, he is captured by Indians and raised by Jesuits - missionaries who train him, mold him, until he is ready to take his vows. But one mystery remains to haunt him. What was his birthright? In his search for his roots, Stephen finds that his fiercely guarded past has become a burning issue of the present and of the future. And he finds the love he...