love stories

Carrie Benson's family joins a wagon train bound for California in 1848. Luke McDougal is a medical student who has left school to search for gold. Together Carrie and Luke discover things riches cannot buy.

With her mother away on a honeymoon in Europe, fifteen-year-old Darcie spends the summer with her dour uncle and his wife, restaurateurs in a zoo where Darcie begins a search for the father she has never known and develops a crush on a mysterious seal and bird keeper who leads her into a test with death.

In 1845 Sofia DuFay leaves her home in Monterey Bay with a dream of starting a school for American and Mexican young women in San Diego.

Rosie is rescued in Mexico from a British ship by the man whom she should hate; however, they soon discover feelings for each other neither had ever suspected.

The story of the emotional crises of Paul Morel, a painter growing to manhood in the Nottingham coalfields. He is caught in a conflict between his possessive mother of middle class aspirations and the love of two young, beautiful women.

A beautiful, passionate Russian woman forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.

Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit. 'Includes SAT and ACT comprehension questions and sample writing prompts.

Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

Alys finds herself in mortal danger when she uses the powers learned from the local wise woman Morach in an attempt to win the love of Hugo, the married son of her employer, only to have the magic she created spiral out of control.

A middle aged couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino.