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In 1890s Boston, Lydia Pallas' skills as a translator get her noticed by the dashing Alexander Banebridge, who has a trove of documents he can't decipher. The only thing more alarming than the information Lydia culls from these papers is her growing attraction to Bane. But when he draws the ire of dangerous criminals, Lydia must act fast to save the man who's captured her heart.

When a woman from his past reveals that the child he fathered with her in secret is in need of a bone marrow transplant, politician Lawrence Simmons must decide whether he is willing to risk his career and marriage to help her.

Living in a cozy Iowa farmhouse with her kindly grandmother, 24-year-old Julia Desmit struggles to support her five-year-old son and 10-year-old halfbrother. Though her boyfriend is away at medical school, Julia harbors hope for a better life. And then the man who abandoned her six years ago rocks her happy world with one question: "Do I have a son?"

When Laura Godfrey decides to have her dead husband's child, she sees it a God's way of giving her what they were both cheated out of when her husband died. She's willing to use every tool of modern genetic science to assure that the baby is healthy and normal. But a billionaire plans to use the baby to restore the Biblical perfection of the human race.

Butterfly and Ethan are two high school friends mired in unhappy marriages. After a chance encounter, they embark on an illicit affair. But when Butterfly is found out, stress is placed on her already struggling marriage and her standing in her church.

Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world, which make it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder. Dashing Luke Palmer is more than he appears though. He's a Texas Ranger working undercover to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers. Repairing telephones and tangling with this tempestuous woman is the last thing he wants to do. But when his stakeout puts Georgie in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line.

Danica Greene loves living in Iowa with her pilot husband Etsell. But tragedy strikes when Etsell and his plane vanish while he's working in Alaska. Buoyed by her faith, Danica heads off to the Last Frontier to find answers.

Carolyn takes a break from her widowed San Francisco existence to celebrate her mother's 70th birthday in the Canary Islands. As her mother's gentle affection and the islands' soothing allure soften Carolyn's heart, a Flamenco dance lesson, a defining camel ride, and the steady gaze of an old flame reawaken feelings she thought were forever gone.

Hannah Sunderland is devastated when her brother is jailed for joining the Colonial cause. Spy Jeremiah Jones sees in Hannah a way to access the prison to obtain valuable information, but Hannah's Quaker beliefs stand in the way. Nevertheless, Hannah and Jeremiah develop a mutual fondness even as they become caught in history's tumultuous churn.

Spoiled teens Crystal and Sahara get sent to live with their grandmother, Ma Ray, for a summer without cell phones, Internet, or boys. Upset their summer is ruined, the girls attempt to rebel against their grandmother's strict rules. But they don't succeed, because Ma Ray was once a wild child like her granddaughters--and she knows every trick in the book.