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On her way to Mass, a girl stays with an elderly neighbor whom no one else can tend.
After emancipation, Aunt Peggy asks for a quiet cabin where she can spend her final days.
A plantation worker sets out for a week of visiting and stops at a sick boy's cabin.
A young man pretends to be ill, leaving his godmother to handle work meant for him.
A woman who has never wanted children must care for a neighbor's four youngsters.
An older woman refuses to leave the house she was given when freed from slavery.
An elderly freed man keeps trying to reach the family that enslaved him decades earlier.
After hearing that her husband has died, a woman discovers an unexpected feeling while she sits alone.
A little girl offers lilies to a furious neighbor after her calf damages his crops.
When her French village empties under British rule, a young hunter must decide where she belongs.
A solitary narrator turns from people to the quiet of a summer night.
A traveler with a broken buggy is mistaken for a soldier who never came home for Christmas.
A young emissary enters hostile Florence with a plea that could alter a kingdom's fate.
A reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
A Neapolitan officer's secret mission makes him a stranger to everyone he loves.
A banished young Sienese entrusts his sister to the rival who toppled their family.
An embattled French countess seeks a dream that will decide whether she can forgive the man she loves.
An orphaned heiress's secret promise entangles her with two brothers divided by inheritance.
A feared Albanian bandit carries a child across the mountains, leaving a family to chase a terrifying rumor.
A king's cruel rhyme inspires his sister to prove a missing lady's fidelity.
A despised prince secretly marries the peasant woman who restores his faith in the world.
A grieving traveler follows an unexplained beacon to an abandoned Welsh tower.
After drinking an alchemist's unfinished elixir, a lovesick young man begins to outlive everyone he knows.
A prosperous man guards a grave whose story begins with a runaway schoolboy and a haunted young woman.
