Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory...

Sergeant Ryan DeMarco takes an extended road trip with his girlfriend, Jayme, in her tiny hometown, where they are reluctantly drawn into the mystery of a cold case involving the skeletons of seven young girls.

"As a child caught up in a crisis, Lainey O'Toole made a split-second decision with far-reaching effects. Fifteen years later, when her car breaks down in Stoney Ridge, she is forced to face the past. Bess Reihl is less than thrilled to be spending the summer at Rose Hill Farm helping her intimidating grandmother. But once Bess meets hired hand Billy Lapp in Stoney Ridge, the summer starts to hold some promise. Now Lainey's and Bess's worlds are about...

Sociologist Emma Riley, returning home to Rock Creek, Pennsylvania, for both her sisters' weddings, needs Rock Creek newcomer Jake Slayter for a big project that could save her job and launch her career, and must find a way to convince this stubborn and obstinate man to help her.

Arriving in Mercury, Pennsylvania, in 1990, gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner Marley West marries one of the Joseph brothers and tries to lead this family of roofers to stability in this hardworking, blue-collar town by helping them escape their unwieldy father’s shadow.

Schmucker Brothers' Sausages are the talk of the town, and potential investors are lining up to go into business with the coveted sausage makers. But when one of the investors is found slaughtered at Magdalena Yoder's Penn-Dutch Inn, she must catch a murderer intent on turning juicy pork dreams to rashers!

Widowed Sarah Turner has her hands full, raising three young children, tending the lock on the canal, baking bread, and washing clothes for boatmen. Although she's not looking for love, she's vowed not to lose her heart to a boatman. Yet she didn't count on meeting Captain Elias Brooks. Will she follow her heart where it leads or accept the proposal of a handsome land-loving blacksmith?

Targeted by a vandal who threatens to put her family greenhouse out of business, Belinda evaluates the courtships of two potential suitors before her prospects are complicated by renewed sabotage and her teenage son's disapproval.

In 1943, eleven-year-old Ellie is her brother Jimmy's "best girl," and when he leaves Pittsburgh just before Thanksgiving to fight in World War II, he promises he will return, asks her to leave the Christmas tree up until he does, and reminds her to "let the joy out."