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" In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have been friends since childhood. But their past binds them together in ways they must never know. Until a chance meeting forces Kate and Josie to confront the truth of that night nearly twenty years before - a truth that turns both worlds upside down and threatens to destroy their friendship forever...

Jodie Harland and Bethan Keane had little in common before the plight of a homeless dog brought them together, but from that day on the two young girls were bound together as best friends. As different as night and day in personality and interests, their friendship grows strong through shared joys, trials, and, finally, a devastating loss faced together.

Eager to leave his Civil War memories behind, Joel embarks on a journey to the Great West. After saving a beautiful Cheyenne princess frmo evil kidnapper Henri Larocaque, the lonely soldier soon falls in love with her. The princess quickly fills the void the war has left in his heart. Larocaque hasn't forgiven Joel for taking his princess, however. After Larocaque violently evens the score, Joel is forced to go to extremes to bring a woman into his motherless son's life. But will this woman's past bring as much trouble as the Cherokee princess?

By 1866, Dr. Cheney Dufall has had her fill of places where people distrust her skill simply because she is a woman. So she and her assistant, Shiloh, return to Cheney's home in New York City, wher she can set up practice among "respectable" folks.

When Eve discovers her uncle's bootlegging operation, she knows it's against Prohibition law. But can she really condemn the only thing supporting her family?

A sudden snowstorm in late December means that two parties of travellers are forced to abandon their journeys and take refuge in the bustling market town of Carmarthen. Unfortunately, the two groups, one representing the Archbishop of Canterbury and one comprising canons from St David's Cathedral, are bitter opponents in a dispute that has been raging for several months.

Emily Longesley married the love of her life and hoped that he would learn to love her. Instead, he upped and left their country estate for London. Suffering the snub with dignity, three years on Emily has had enough! Confronting her errant husband, Emily sees that Adrian, Earl of Folbroke, has been robbed of his sight and doesn't know her at all! Emily longs for her husband's touch. If she plays his mistress by delicious deception, can he finally learn to love his wife?

Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been murdered.

24-yearold Cassandra works for a wealthy Philadelphia widow who treats her with grandmotherly kindness. But Cassie's 1857 life takes an unexpected turn when a Boston investigator asks her to pretend they're courting so he can get closer to a murder suspect--her employer's own son.

American merchant Captain Jeremiah Macy Hammond's trading empire faces pirates, violent storms, and illness as it forges new paths across the Pacific. There he meets Lady Yee, the Silver Lotus, daughter of a wealthy Cantonese merchant family.