Plain, Belva

Donald, a young lawyer in a crumbling marriage, takes a drastic step to keep his daughter with him, and years later finds himself facing the legal and emotional consequences of his actions.

Margaret Crane's life falls apart when she learns that Adam, her husband of almost twenty years, is having an extra-marital affair, and her misery is compounded by the rift that occurs between her and Nina, an orphaned cousin raised by the Cranes, over Nina's relationship with a married man.

This is the story of a woman who, in the battle of child custody, finds herself overpowered by her husband's ruthless actions. In the aftermath of an ugly divorce, she must rebuild her world alone, find the strength and wherewithal to live in it, and regain a life with her children.

The family business was tottering, threatened by dissent from within. The pressure was on to sell family land to foreign investors, a move that divided the Greys and threatened Grey's Foods and the small upstate New York city it fed.

The saga of three generations of doctors in the Farrell family begins with a country doctor at the turn of the century in rural New York.

Miriam Raphael, raised in the lap of luxury in antebellum New Orleans, is unhappily married and in the midst of the Civil War must reconcile her wifely duties and a forbidden passion.

The friendship among Norma, Cecile, and Amanda does not survive the post-college years after Amanda marries Norma's brother to escape a life of poverty, then embarks on an affair with her father-in-law; and Norma undermine's Cecile's husband in an attempt to boost her own husband's career.

A beautiful and gutsy lawyer, Jennie is on the brink of marriage and is trying the most important case of her career. Then a shattering secret from her past threatens to destroy her world.