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Edmund, a 17-year-old counterfeiter's apprentice, leaves the criminal job to join Sir Nigel on the Crusade, only to find out it is not as adventurous and heroic as he thought it to be.

In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again.

Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I.

A year ago in 1815, Laura Gardeyne lost her dashing husband, Hal, in a riding accident. Now she must raise her young son at the Gardeyne estate, since he is heir to its fortune.

Young Irish American Saul Sullivan marries a beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. As a mixed race couple, they weather a storm of prejudice, but eventually find acceptance with Saul's family.

Larkin Stanton, orphaned at birth in 1845, is raised by his cousin, Arty Norton. Larkin and Arty's younger brother Hackley grow up surrounded by music and are as close as brothers.

When her parents are killed in a raid, 11-year-old Helen Morrison and her younger sister Katy are kidnapped by a band of Comanches.

In the lage 1830s, the Mexican War is winding down, but tensions between the Texans and the Comanches threaten the fledgling Texas Republic.

Colin McElreath is getting married. He is giving up his status as a Free Fellow because he has sworn to protect the league and their secret work in the war with France.

Tab and Tina, relatives of a founder of Ku Klux Klan, are whisked away to an interracial Civil Rights school one summer.

When a putrid odor fills the city during a heat wave, massive repairs to London's sewer system are called for.

A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS.

When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.

Simon St. Bride has been in Canada fighting the War of 1812--but the war is over now, and Simon is ready to come home. Before he leaves, however, Simon must defend a young woman's honor.

Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war.