Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular way of dealing with crime. His innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of deduction, he interprets each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself.

Will the Wounded Soldier She Rescues From Certain Death be Able to Break Down the Walls of Bitterness That Surround Her Heart? Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War. Jesselynn is also...

The Civil War has ended, and the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads are locked in a high-stakes competition to link the eastern states with their western counterparts. Jordana Baldwin's writing catches the attention of an eastern newspaper, and she takes on the guise of a man to report on the progress of the rail line...and to spy for the Central Pacific. She continues to correspond with Captain Rich O'Brian, who now works for the Union Pacific....

Abigail's American family has long been part of London's political and social life. In spite of her privileged upbringing during the elegant 1820s, Abigail becomes increasingly disturbed by the plight of the poor. Her desire to help is spurred by a sense of adventure, and unbeknownst to her parents, she ministers to the bawdy revelers of London's most dangerous district.

Rese Barrett, renovating an old villa in Sonoma, California, into a bed and breakfast, hires Lance Michelli as a cook/maid, not realizing he is the grandson of a former owner and is on a mission to uncover the secrets of his grandmother's past that are making her so unhappy.

High society is abuzz with the deepening friendship of the dashing man and beautiful woman who miraculously survived a pirate attack at sea. Little do they know that more than riches were stolen that fateful day ... for it was then that Sarah Carlyle stole Charles Locke's heart.

Abby returns to her childhood home in rural Louisiana, hoping to share the wisdom of her ninety-two-year-old grandma with her daughter Hannah, but instead of the wise, loving woman Abby remembers, she finds an old woman with the power to crush Hannah's spirit.

Following a sudden, inexplicable loss of electricity worldwide, the human race is abruptly confronted with the practical and ethical dilemmas created by the loss of familiar technologies.