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Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions, and Annie must choose who she is going to become.

Gwendolyn Foster is thrown when her boyfriend proposes to her. But she has another dream altogether--to be a writer. Then Hank Ellis comes into her life. He has been drowning in grief since his brother died. But when he sees Gwen, something inside him comes alive again.

In early 1900s Texas, Samantha Gordon, heiress to a large cattle ranch, and Nathan Holloway, a charming farm boy, find their fates intertwined. As changes sweep the rustic countryside, their connection drives this narrative compulsively forward--as they love, lose, and betray.

Since finding a dead earl tied to his missing sister's bed, Captain Harcourt is at the mercy of the captivating Miss Ivory Moore of Chegarre & Associates, known for smoothing over the direst of scandals. He's never met a woman with her nerve, yet she's somehow flawless.

Electricity is a new power in the early 1900s, and it becomes Roscoe Martin's life work. When his family inherits a failing farm, he uses his electrical skills to siphon energy. But everything changes after a man is electrocuted by his illegal lines and Roscoe must face prison alone.

Haunted by his mother's disappearance, Delvin Walker rides the rails, falls in love, and sees an America sliding into the Great Depression. But as he is pushed deeper into the darkness of imprisonment after being falsely charged with rape, his resolve to escape burns only more brightly.

Maviah is an outcast, but when she meets a man named Yeshua, he opens her eyes. Because of his teachings, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert. But when her growing power threatens the rulers around her, they set out to crush all she loves.

Denver, 1962. Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. Then the dreams begin. Soon she must reconcile her reality with a tantalizing alternate world.

The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington, DC, Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse.