Hoffman, Alice

After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.

The lives of three women of different generations are united by tragic love, a ghost that haunts a London hotel, and their quest to find the Third Angel that can restore their faith.

The lives of the people of the small town of Monroe, Massachusetts are shattered when beloved friend and neighbor Ethan Ford--a Little League coach, trusted contractor, doting husband and father, and heroic volunteer fireman--is arrested for a fifteen-year-old murder which he readily admits to committing.

Four women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans.

Seventeen-year-old Arlyn Singer, standing on the porch after her father's funeral, promises herself that the first man to walk down the street will be her one true love, and her confidence sets the stage for generations of heartache when she convinces John Moody, a Yale student who stopped to ask directions, that she is right.

Robin begins to realize the intricacy of what it means to be human when she rescues an innocent man mistaken for a beast and takes him home with her.

Amanda, an eleven-year-old girl, contracts a disease. As her family and their friends and neighbors struggle to come to terms with the disease, ordinary people are transformed into heroes and heroines.

Presents a collection of interconnecting narratives about a number of interesting and intriguing people who live at Blackbird House in Cape Cod, Massachusetts during the British occupation in the eighteenth century.

March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.