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Black Mountain looms on the horizon east of Yellowstone. When New York's governor goes there on vacation, policeman Richard Corrigan is an unofficial part of the security team.

Ian Merchant is a best-selling horror writer with two problems-a wicked case of writer's block, and a stalker who haunts him.

Fanny and her cousins find their friendship tested by their grandfather's bequest.

Young and recently widowed, Jasmine Houston confronts the vital issues of freedom and slavery, love and hate, life and death.

As Jasmine and her husband thank God for delivering their daughter from certain death, tragic news arrives. Yellow fever has decimated Jasmine's Mississippi family.

Attorney Deborah Knott has just entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches.

21-year-old Amanda Broadmoor doesn't want to abandon her mentor Dr. Carstead when cholera strikes Rochester, New York, in 1899.

Jasmine Wainwright never expected her father to include her in a deal to sell off the plantation.

Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds.

Although she's never met her fianc�e, she's headed for New York to marry one of America's wealthiest heirs.

When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.

Miriam Willard and her family are taken captive by Indians from a New Hampshire settlement and brought to Canada as prisoners at the beginning of the French and Indian War.

Miranda DeSpain is a young woman still haunted by a painful adolescent experience. When she finds a clue to this troubling mystery from her past, she travels to an idyllic Virginia town.

Cane River is an epic novel about the strength and determination of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.

A widow with family far away, 51-year-old Emma fills her loneliness by caring for her boarding house guests and sharing her own special blend of wisdom and humor.