new york (state)

Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.

While working in a sawmill in the Catskill Mountains of New York in the 1850s, fourteen-year-old Matt not only learns craftsmanship but also valuable lessons about life.

Louis Lynch and his wife Sarah are preparing for the trip of a lifetime in Italy, where they hope to reconnect with one another and their oldest friend, a reclusive artist whose long-standing love for Sarah may threaten their vacation and their future together.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

For years Paul Graves has tried to escape his past and forget about his sister's murder, but when he is called to Riverwood to write a story about a young girl who was killed more than forty years earlier, he is forced to face the demons that have always tormented him.