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A poor steward's daughter marries the lord who saved her from a burning home.
Two young pilgrims seek shelter with a Swiss baron haunted by the daughter he drove away.
A Polish exile in Naples finds love while carrying papers that could imperil an empire.
Two devoted sisters face the terrible cost of loving an outlaw.
A Swiss orphan torn between gratitude and love must reckon with a revolution gathering in her valley.
Exiled by his own pride, a reckless nobleman accepts a stranger's miraculous bargain.
A ruined lawyer is offered cash for his inherited feud, forcing an old mountain honor code into a startling new bargain.
A fugitive from a Texas gunfight is offered a dangerous new identity in a distant coastal country.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
A celebrated safecracker tries to build an honest life under a new name, but his old skills are not finished with him.
Two young artists quietly sacrifice for each other when money runs out and their shared creative life is threatened.
Two old friends keep a twenty-year appointment, but the lives they built have carried them to opposite sides of the law.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A young man sends a street boy to plead his case to the woman who has forbidden him to write or speak to her.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
On a train crossing the West, a chance reunion forces a young man to choose between truth and the image he once hoped to become.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A traveling medicine seller uses personal magnetism to outwit a town's mayor, its doctor, and the law itself.
A young architect spends his carefully saved evening posing as a wealthy clubman when he invites a stranger to dinner.
A millionaire father bets that money can solve his son's romantic dilemma, while the young lover searches for one uninterrupted moment.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
A carefree young heir must explain how he spends a thousand-dollar bequest before learning what the money may truly be worth.
A struggling typist finds spring, memory, and a lost love hiding among the daily dishes on a restaurant menu.
A plain waitress mistakes one impulsive kiss for her long-awaited entrance into the glamorous world of romance.
