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In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey's Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce's DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other--until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old friends.

Because Lady Lucinda Pembroke's paintings have a reputation for being prophetic, her picture of a handsome man laughing as a ship sinks causese widespread gossip. Londoners are sure it must be Sir Trevelyan Rochester, gloating as his wealthy cousin drowns. Lucinda hides from the gossip at a remote cottage--only to encounter Rochester there. She begins another painting, hoping to repair his reputation. But as her brush strokes the canvas, Rochester's nearness creates colorful waves of desire.

When tensions between Apaches and white settlers reach the breaking point, Geronimo leads a war party through white settlements and into Mexico. Barlow joins General Nelson Miles' forces in pursuit of Geronimo, but is soon distracted when his nemesis Kiannatah resurfaces. A Netdahe Apache--a brutal, renegage killer--Kiannatah launches a terrifying campaign of vengeance after federal soldiers kill his woman. Now only Barlow can stop this most feared of Netdahe warriors.

Lt. Joshua Barlow, just out of West Point, is sent into the West by his influential father, who hopes he will be safer there. However, a different conflict is being waged on the plains. Kiannatah and his band of Apache warriors are determined to fight those who dare to invade their land; no matter how much blood is spilled.

U.S. Lieutenant Joshua Barlow resigns his commission to live on the frontier with his Apache wife Oulay, daughter of the great chief Cochise. At last, he has found true love, happiness, and harmony. But trouble is brewing. When a peaceful group of Apaches is slaughtered by white renegades, Cochise prepares his warriors for retaliation. Only Barlow can stop the bloodshed from escalating into an all-out Apache war.

At the EJ Ranch the Bryce brothers have found good, honest work. A widow with two young children has a herd of cattle that needs grazing. But the widow and her property are coveted by a cattle baron. As the Bryce brothers find themselves in the crosshairs of a looming range, a trio of merciless bounty hunters arrives to collect the prices on their heads.

With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her parents unless she returns to the Amana colonies as their spy. Back in South Amana, she's befriended by Ilsa Redlich and her family. But if she overhears antiwar remarks, how can she betray these kind people?

Smuggled out of Hungary to escape the Nazi menace, five-year-old Eva Farkas now lives with her aunt and uncle in Romania. Renamed Anca Balaj, she's told to forget her Hungarian past and language and accept a new identity. But when communism smothers her adopted homeland, Anca fights to survive. After the Iron Curtain lifts decades later, she returns to Hungary in 1990, hoping to reclaim her forgotten heritage.

Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, Rivers tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin Eater, she uncovers a hideous secret and finds the truth.

Professor Tom�as Noronha, hired to finish another scholar's research, finds a document with an encrypted message that leads him on a search for the true identity of Columbus.