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When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old.

Dr. Wood McIlmore is the leading citizen of Paris, Arkansas. Married to his high school sweetheart Milan, Wood has it all.

Alison loves her husband and their three children. But the emptiness she feels is tied to her decision to run away with Marc, her best friend's man.

This novel takes Father Tim Kavanaugh and his wife Cynthia to Ireland for a long-planned foray into Kavanaugh history.

Once the golden child of tiny Linden Falls, Iowa, Allison Glenn watches her reputation crumble as she is sent to prison for five years--convicted of a terrible crime.

In a story of hope and lessons of forgiveness, Dylan Cooper, a talented photographer, is captivated by the snow-covered small-town charm of Newbury despite the current economic depression.

While desperately seeking income as a photographer, Dylan Cooper befriends art gallery assistant Grace MacVicar. So well do the two get along that Dylan begins to harbor hopes for the future.

Regina Pearson is raised by her father in Hawaii. When he passes away, she decides to search North Carolina for the family she has never known.

Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her.

Career jounalist Marge Hairston and her three loving children, Drogan, Cassie, and Sharon, are about as close as a family can be.

Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots.

Kate divorces Alistair after 10 years of marriage, swearing off relationships altogether.

Terri Mills' star is on the rise. A smart and ambitious lawyer engaged to a successful man, she has escaped her small-town roots and hopes to never look back. But then her man is unfaithful.

When Christine married Jesse Ray Thurman, she thought she had found her lifetime love.

After a crash diet and a makeover fail to get the attention of her husband, Annette shacks up with Louis and goes on a spending spree, until she discovers a terrible secret about Louis and turns to