A woman confronts her past with the help of the man she loves in this emotional mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author.
 
Abandoned as a little girl and bounced from foster home to foster home, photojournalist Tory Lancaster has finally found someone to love in Brett Hooker, an investigator for the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.
 
Then Tory takes a photo that...

"Yearning to find a meaningful life in the outside world, nurse Miriam Kaufman strayed far from her Amish community. She also needed distance from Nick Bradley, the cop who had caused her so much pain. Back in Hope Springs to care for her ailing mother, Miriam needs Nick, now sheriff, to find the mother of Hannah, the baby abandoned on her porch. Nick is as wary of Miriam's intentions as she is of facing their past. Can two wounded hearts overcome...

Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood. But, the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place...

"American journalist travels the Congo while writing an exposé on corruption"--

A brilliantly original novel of the 1970s counterculture Alice Duncan is an eleven-year-old girl who looks so much like a grown woman, she attracts the attention of adult men. Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her father who has checked himself into a mental asylum, Alice and her sixteen year old Aunt Esme live on their own in an Upper East Side townhouse, entertaining teenage boys, shoplifting at department stores, and dining on cookies and...

"Quarter Horse breeder Fox Colton is a loner by nature. So when an anonymous infant appears on his doorstep, he reluctantly takes in the baby--and new assistant Kelsey Lauder. As he grows to cherish his unexpected family, Fox works to track down Baby John Doe's real parents. But when secrets from Fox's own past are unearthed, he could find himself alone again, just as he's come to love the new people in his life."--Back cover.

A surly cowboy and an abandoned baby! Retired rodeo cowboy Dean Hunter s escaped to Charming, Texas, for some solitude, some surf and a new start. But his plans are interrupted by the distraction of Maribel del Toro, his stunning and sparring neighbor next door and the baby he discovers on Maribel's doorstep! Now Dean has to convince skeptical PhD Maribel that they need to give a desperate mom a second chance by temporarily caring for the baby......

"Detective Reed Dawson should be looking for the mother who abandoned her infant in his office. But a freak snowstorm has him stranded and left to care for the baby with social worker Aimee Gallagher. Reed can see that Aimee is a caring person and a natural mother. But despite their ice-melting attraction, Reed's painful past prevents him from getting involved. So why does he keep imagining their future as a family?" --

Seamlessly threaded into the emerging hot jazz music scene that captured the hearts of music lovers in 1913 New Orleans, are the themes of the tightening Jim Crow era, World War I and its aftermath of economic ills, political upheavals and epidemics, and the choices, heartbreaks and ultimate decisions of women of all races. At its heart, however, "Muskrat Ramble" is the saga of a young woman's unwavering devotion to the child she was forced to abandon...

"The Christmas that changed all three of them! After her dreams of motherhood were dashed, Feilicity Hart is determined to make a fresh -- baby-free -- start in Lovestruck. Unfortunately, she now has to work with firefighter Wade Ericson on the town festivities! And Wade ends up at the center of all things baby-related in town -- this time, a baby abandoned at the firehouse. Then Felicity finds herself moving in to Wade's house and using her foster-care...