En route to Bath, England, to teach at Miss Martin's School for Girls, Frances Allard seeks refuge from a snowstorm at a nearby inn and finds unexpected passion with Lucius Marshall, unaware that Lucius is the heir to the Earl of Edgecombe.

Renne Sundheimer's life as a cello teacher is abruptly changed by two events: his participation as a juror in a murder trial, and his association with a new student, a Korean prodigy who reminds him of his own past.

Fourth period is hands down the best time of day in Connor U. Eubanks Middle School, because that's when Mr. Lewis teaches Jazz Lab. So his students are devastated when their beloved teacher quits abruptly. Once they make a connection between budget cuts and Mr. Lewis's disappearance, they hatch a plan: stop the cuts, save their class. Soon, they become an unlikely band of crusaders, and their quest quickly snowballs into something much bigger--a...

"Music teacher Ella Baker's plate is already full. But when single dad Beckett McKinley's wild twin boys need help preparing a Christmas song for their father, Ella agrees on one condition: they teach her to ride a horse. She's hoping that'll help mend her strained relationship with her rancher father; it certainly has nothing to do with the crush that's lingered since her one and only date with Beck. It isn't disinterest spurring Beck to keep his...

After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson-who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads-Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone from an eccentric albino named Cracker to a hitman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley.

In Home for Christmas, reporter Jason Law returns home to win back the heart of the girl he left behind. It would take all his skills to win back Miss Davis, especially, faith. In All I want for Christmas, identical twin boys Zeke and Zack wished for only one gift from Santa this year: a new mom! But convincing their love-wary dad that their music teacher, Miss Davis is his destiny and part of Santa's plan, isn't as easy as they'd hoped. And in Gabriel's...

Spurred by a special project from her social studies teacher, seventh-grader Bethesda Fielding uncovers the secret identity of her music teacher, which leads to a most unusual concert performance and a tutoring assignment.

"In a sleepy college town, a woman who was sexually abused as a child must face her traumatic past and protect her family when her abuser appears in town and forces his way back into her life"-- Bridget has a secret she keeps from everyone, even her husband. One that threatens to explode when her childhood music teacher, Carmichael, walks into her dress shop. With him is a young girl on the cusp of adulthood; she reminds Bridget of herself at that...

"From Laura Trentham, the award-winning author of The Military Wife, comes An Everyday Hero--an emotionally layered novel about loss, second chances, and what it means to be a true hero"--

Greed, lust, power, and murder are words not commonly associated with the world of classical music. Yet this is the setting into which blind Daniel Jacobus, a reclusive, cantankerous violin teacher living in self-imposed exile in rural New England, is inexorably drawn. For Jacobus, who spends his time chain smoking, listening to old LPs, and berating students in the hope they will flee, the evils of that world are epitomized by the "Piccolino" Stradivarius,...