My dear girl! I could never fall in love by letter. Though I have no doubt you are a notorious breaker of hearts, not to mention a princess in disguise, and if I were a few miles closer to Toot-above-the-Batch I would be in great danger. From the safe distance of another continent, I will admit to a modest desire to see how your pearl becomes you, even to know the color of your hair and eyes, but this is mere curiosity, I assure you. -Your knight,...

An ambitious young detective sergeant with Scotland Yard, Jack Gibbons investigates the poisoning death of Geoffrey Berowne, in a case that takes a strange turn when the prime suspect, the victim's young wife, turns her attentions on Jack.

In her external life, Helen O'Mara cleans house and attends yoga classes and looks after her children and grandchildren. And in her rich internal life, she continually revists her years with Cal, the beloved husband who died long ago aboard the oil rig Ocean Ranger. Then, one cold November night, her wayward son John, who made his girlfiend pregnant, comes home to help decide what to do. As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen...

"It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning. As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes. Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him--and no one will say why. As Warr digs into Rodney's past, Ridley calls pleading for help, now accused of a murder...

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...