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How the prose reads.
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 prosperous man guards a grave whose story begins with a runaway schoolboy and a haunted young woman.
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 traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A ruthless Texas outlaw, a determined ranger, and the woman between them move toward a reckoning in the thorny frontier.
After watching the woman he loves marry another man, a proud bachelor reconstructs the misunderstanding that destroyed his chance.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
In a Greenwich Village artists' colony, a gravely ill young painter ties her fate to the last leaf on a neighboring vine.
A ranch foreman tries to impress a fearless cattle king's daughter when a dangerous lion interrupts their evening in the prairie.
A struggling typist finds a small, private universe in the star she watches through the skylight of her attic room.
Two struggling women share a makeshift stew, while a mysterious stranger arrives carrying the one ingredient they lack.
Two young working women pursue very different futures in a city where wages, style, and marriage all promise escape.
A mountain couple arrives at a makeshift court demanding a divorce, only to discover that separation may be harder than marriage.
Two working New Yorkers spend a week pretending to be wealthy guests at a Broadway hotel and find an unexpected kindred spirit.
When soldiers on a remote asteroid declare themselves plants, a psychiatrist enters the woods to find who taught them.
