love stories

Set in an English country manor, the story follows the turbulent fortunes of Edith Adelon, an impoverished Italian orphan whose loyalty and beauty win her the patronage of wealthy friends until a jealous rival contrives to rob her of her position. In the locket around her neck, she carries a secret about her birthright.

Seventeen-year-old Angie, living with her family in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.

Marjorie Morgenstern gets the chance of a lifetime when she is offered a job working summer stock, and when she leaves her family to take it, she finds herself involved in an affair that could ruin her life.

Lady Rosamund Devere, having received a marriage offer from a dull prince, finds more excitement than she had bargained for when she decides to spice up her life by delivering a last meal to death-row prisoner Richard Maitland, and becomes first a pawn, and then a willing hostage, as he breaks out of jail and goes on the run in an attempt to clear his name.

While searching for an old enemy who has committed yet another murder, nineteenth-century London detective "Case" Devere runs into--and cannot fight his attraction to--the mysterious Jane Mayberry, a spinster advocate of women's rights running a secret shelter for abused women and hiding other secrets of her own.

This fourth and final title in Maxwell's hilarious Emily quartet, told in a collection of e-mails, finds the teenager still in England describing her experiences to her best friend in Seattle.

Fran's hopes for passing for normal fly out the window when her mother drags her to Hungary to work with a traveling Goth fair, and she falls in love with a vampire.

Ginny Young embarks on a journey home to see the mother she has not spoken to in thirty-five years and to discover the truth about events from the past that determined the course of her life.

Rosie and Alex seemed destined to spend their lives together until a series of unfortunate events separates them leading Alex to Boston to pursue a medical career and a new love while Rosie is forced to stay in Dublin.

The relationship of Nina, a nineteen-year-old college sophomore, and Mitch, a college dropout, relieves Nina's loneliness but further complicates her life.