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Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.

Three weeks after Mary Lou's husband dies, her 14-year-old daughter runs away. Nearly paralyzed with grief, Mary Lou stays grounded through her job at the Dairy Queen. Then one day, she signs up for a single-parenting class. Armed with her newfound courage, she begins a comical, touching quest to find her daughter.

After his daughter dies from a heroin overdose, Chadwick vows to save other children from the same mistake. But when Mallory, the one girl who witnessed his daughter's death, heads down the same destructive road, ugly truths from the past begin to surface. In order to protect Mallory, Chadwick must dive headfirst into a complicated scheme of revenge--one that threatens to drown him in his own guilt.

Tyler is a big-time rodeo star when he returns to his humble hometown of Stillwater Springs. It's not long before he's fighting with his brothers again, and it seems like the past is due to repeat itself. But that may not be so bad, because Tyler's first love Lily is back as well, and their feelings for each other have never been stronger.

Amy Steadman is the young heiress of a prosperous children's book publishing franchise in New York. After her grandmother is murdered, apparently in a botched robbery, Amy goes to North Carolina to clean out the family home. But as she sorts through dusty files and boxes, she is haunted by the memory of her mother's suicide, which apparently happened here when Amy was only three.

Logan Creed put his feet on the wandering path a long time ago, but there comes a time for everyone to settle down. Hoping to reunite with his two brothers, Logan decides to establish himself in Stillwater Springs, Montana--but what he doesn't expect to find there is a divorced mom who just might change everything for him.

Dylan Creed is known for his talent at taming bulls and women, but when he turns up for story time at former lover Kristy Madison's library with his daughter that was abandoned by her mother, Kristy's determined to tame his wild ways once and for all.

Marisia, a Polish teenager, comes to America at the turn of the twentieth century and must fend for herself on New York's Lower East Side.

New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced, and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiastic about his get-rich-quick plans, but are they the right plans for Joe? And why is the local savings and loan so eager to lend Joe and Marcus the money they need to complete a huge feal estate transaction?

Determined to honor an old promise, an undercover investigator struggles to shield a childhood friend from danger while resisting the pristine allure of the woman she's clearly become. But he may have underestimated the distraction of having such a fair maiden so near, and the tenacity of a ruthless villain.