Presents a tale inspired by the daughters of "Kingmaker" Richard, fifteenth-century Earl of Warwick, who uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love
When the members of a peace symposium are abducted by armed terrorists, Jungian psychologist and team leader Sonia Laghari struggles to keep the hostages alive by posing confounding interpretations of the kidnappers' dreams, while her ex-soldier son works to find and free her.
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate and beloved daughter of a powerful late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her family and faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Saburo, a politician's son, has a brief encounter with a young girl who tells him of her happy family life and spends years trying to find her again as he struggles to survive during the invasion of Taiwan by the Chinese National Army
The daughter of a German high school teacher who had been forced to work as a gravedigger after immigrating to upstate New York in 1936, Rebecca begins a life-changing pilgrimage throughout America in the wake of a prejudice-motivated tragedy.
Billy Ray Matthias, the new pastor's son, falls for Benjamina Freeman, heiress to one of the most successful African American families in the Midwest, in a romance set in the midst of the Tulsa Race Riots
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
Evading the spies of the repressive shogunate in nineteenth century Edo, Oei helps her eccentric father Hokusai with his famous prints and paintings, rejecting traditional female duties while staying loyal to her father
After his hard-drinking poacher father becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a beloved local cop, Mike Bowditch is one of the few who believes the violent womanizer didn't do it and, with the help of a retired pilot, journeys deep into the Maine wilderness to find his fugitive kin--and the real killer.