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McCall Smith delivers a collection of stories about dating, with emotions running from the thrill of finding happiness to the humiliation and loneliness of rejection.

When the ever ethical Isabel Dalhousie bumps into Minty Auchterlonie for the first time in years, she is skeptical (again) of Minty's integrity.

Precocious six-year-old Bertie joins the scouts to escape his mother, Matthew learns to handle the challenges of marriage, and Domenica deals with loneliness.

Isabel Dalhousie helps a new friend discover the identity of her father. Jane, a visiting Australian philosopher on sabbatical in Edinburgh, has more questions than answers.

Unabashed nomad Hank Cooper is surprised to learn he's inherited a tract of beachfront property in Thunder Point.

Deputy Sheriff Mac McCain and Gina James are longtime friends whose relationship heats up into a sizzling love affair.

Devon McAllister flees danger with her daughter and ends up in Thunder Point, Oregon, where she meets widowed father Spencer Lawson, a man who can teach her about safety and stability.

Sick of running into her cheery ex-husband and his new wife, Leslie Petruso accepts a job at the Virgin River branch of Haggerty Construction and takes the high road out of town.

This year, Becca Timm know the number one item on her Christmas wish list--getting over Denny Cutler. Three years ago, Denny broke her heart before heading off to war.

Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's w

Life at Corduroy Mansions, nestled in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, is as lively as ever.

Katie Malone and her twin boys' trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance.

Dr. June Hudson keeps her passionate visits with undercover DEA agent Jim Post a secret from her community, but an old flame's return to town after twenty years makes things complicated.

The residents of 44 Scotland Street grapple with problems both trivial and severe, but none so great as when six-year-old Bertie Pollock--who longs to be seven--mislays his mum and learns a valuabl

The Grace Valley gossip mill runs rampant when the town's single doctor becomes pregnant, the pastor becomes obsessed with poker, and the town's matriarch takes a lover, but everyone unites when da