A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
Sent to work for a Louisiana family, a young Indigenous woman longs for the woods but grows attached to their baby.
At Easter, a carpenter notices a poor young woman whom the village has overlooked.
A wet and hungry prankster turns up at a lonely doctor's door during a storm.
A poor market worker supports an older woman from the family he once served.
On her way to Mass, a girl stays with an elderly neighbor whom no one else can tend.
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.
Babette may visit her cousins when the figs ripen, and she watches the trees each day.
An older woman refuses to leave the house she was given when freed from slavery.
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 traveler with a broken buggy is mistaken for a soldier who never came home for Christmas.
On a bitter Christmas Eve, an out-of-work watchmaker hears a violin through the wall just as he loses hope.
A young emissary enters hostile Florence with a plea that could alter a kingdom's fate.
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 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.
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.
