An act of courage leads to a small girl’s fight to face the future against all odds in this disturbing and moving tale from an award-winning author. When little Humaby escapes from a locked van and runs for help, she saves herself as well as a newly stolen baby girl. But, given into the care of child psychiatrist Dr Stefan Lazarus, the girl, renamed Faith, grows up under the glare of an unwelcome spotlight that drives her to dangerous behavior. Sent to a retreat by Stefan, Faith is drawn to Tally and Hay, and the three immediately develop a unique and powerful bond. Each of them is attempting to come to terms with their troubled pasts. For Faith, this involves one final, shocking act . . .

Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author After years of self-imposed reclusiveness, Lucinda Hunter has started moving out into the world. Everything is going well. Yet, fearing that she'll never be able to absorb all her family history from her grandmother, Lucinda is racing against time...read more

Product Description: Imagine this: On her deathbed, your mother confesses to an unthinkable crime. Thirty years before, she stole you from a New York City supermarket. She is not your mother. You are somebody's baby, but not hers. This is Snow Devane's story...read more

After her mother's death, Lucinda Hunter learns that her father was a black man who died in the Korean War--a shocking discovery that forces her to re-evaluate her beliefs and her sense of self.

Starting a new life in Vermont after escaping her brutal husband, Grace Loring, now a successful author, is forced to confront her past when she is contacted by a woman who claims to be trapped in the clutches of an abusive madman.

On the day of her husband's funeral, widow Kyra Latimer is confronted by a young woman claiming to be her long-lost daughter, given up for adoption twenty years earlier, who leaves her toddler son with his 'grandmother' to raise.

Allen discloses that she and her father had an incestuous relationship for ten years and directs attention to the effects this and other forms of male tyranny have had on her female psyche

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Product Description: It is late winter 1934 in Manhattan when DeeDee Carlson dies after falling from the balcony of her apartment at the Ansonia. Her boyfriend, Chip Stevenson, begs Honoria Barlow-his late mother's closest friend, and his, as well-to look into the circumstances of DeeDee's death...read more

Mattie Sylvester, the elderly, headstrong widow of a famous American artist, shares her memories of the past--the artistic milieu of the 1920s, her charming, ruthless husband, their sons--with her new personal secretary, Sarah Kidd

In accepting an assignment to ride the Orient Express and spend five days in Venice, photojournalist Joanna James begins a dramatic journey in which lasting friendships are made, hearts are broken, and love is found

Nightclub singer Lisa Hamilton relieves loneliness with anonymous lovers, until one hurts her, but a trip to the Bahamas may help, and so, perhaps, will the warm and loving Chas Clayton

Wynne Shipton tries to avoid the memories of her past, but when Alton Wakeman offers her a second chance at romance and her long estranged daughter returns, Wynne confronts the past to forge a new future

Product Description: There are the visible flaws and the not-so-visible flaws, but everyone has them -- or thinks they do.In the case of Caley Burrell, her flaws are very visible. Being sent face-first through the windshield of a car has left her irreparably, shockingly damaged...read more

Product Description: When her photographer daughter, Emma, dies as a result of being beaten and raped, Jacqueline Evannier's peaceful life is thrown into complete turmoil. In her grief, she accepts the consolation and affection offered by Phil Aylmer who happened to be on the scene of Emma's attack...read more

Sidonie had grown up trying to be what other people wanted her to be. She sank into married life with Frank and transformed herself into the plump, placid pet she thought he desired. Then one day she took a good look at herself and despised what she saw, and realized that Frank despised her too.

It is wartime England in 1940 and Frances Holden has gone subtly mad at the age of forty; her actions have consequences that reverberate through decades.A shocking, hateful yet clever woman, Frances manages to alienate everyone who cares for her, particularly her long-suffering husband Arthur and her oldest friend Mandy. Frances is especially cruel to her young daughter Hadleigh.When her appalling behavior results indirectly in the deaths of three people, matters reach crisis point and Frances is forcibly institutionalized. A carefully planned effort to take her own life fails, and out of pity Arthur rescues his wife from the institution.Over the years, and in the course of this remarkable book, Frances becomes someone we care about almost in spite of ourselves. A singularly magnetic character who commands respect for her intelligence and plainspokenness, she manages to redeem herself ultimately through her delightful granddaughter Bonita.For Hadleigh, who throughout her childhood suffered at the hands of her mother, coming to terms with the woman is no easy thing. But in the end, despite numerous suicide attempts and her own battle with alcoholism, Hadleigh is at last able to acknowledge and honor the extraordinary, and often wildly funny woman who gave her life.

Eugenie, pregnant and attempting to rebuild her life after the sudden death of her beloved husband, and Adele--trying to overcome the nightmare of marriage to a sadistic and sexually perverted man--desperately search for love

Product Description: Annabel Abbott's twin sister Julia has committed suicide. This act turns Annabel's life upside down. She simply cannot comprehend why Julia, who had everything, would call her life a senseless rip-off and put an end to it. While Annabel, the studious one, the boring insurance consultant, has doggedly kept moving forward year after year...read more

Product Description: The Burgess family of Remington Park is not like other families. Lisette is a mother who loves too much; who is troubled but doesn't know why; who needs, but doesn't know what it is she needs. Ray is a father distanced from his children, deeply in love with his wife, absorbed in his career...read more

The lives and destinies of three women--mothers and daughters--and their families, marriages, and loves are set against the background of war-torn London and the peaceful aftermath of World War II in Europe

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