widowers

Since he lost his wife and children in a fire, Peter has lived a closed off life on the coast of Maine, but when he meets a young pregnant woman on the run from her husband, he once again learns to open his heart.

After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.

Matt Logelin chronicles his relationship with his wife Liz and his struggles to cope with his grief and raise their premature daughter, Maddy, in the year following Liz's unexpected death just one day after Maddy's birth.

Widower Leland Fowler, a deputy state prosecutor, finds love again when he makes an appointment with homeopath Carissa Lake in an attempt to rid himself of a chronic sore throat, but he faces an ethical and moral dilemma when Carissa is suspected of causing the death of one of her asthma patients.

After his lovely artistic wife dies in a moment of violence along with their infant son, widowed Terry Orr trains to become a private investigator along with raising his twelve-year-old daughter as he grieves.

A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.

Widowed Christmas tree farmer Christopher Byrne and widowed librarian Catherine Tierney are brought together when Christopher returns to the Manhattan street corner where he last saw his sixteen-year-old son, who ran away the year before.

Presents the fictional journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing in which he shares details of his early life, his discovery and research on vampires, and his efforts to find and eliminate them.

The unmarried, middle-aged children of a charming elderly widower attempt to foil his plans to remarry.

Major Ernest Pettigrew, having retired to a quiet life in Edgecombe St. Mary, raises a few eyebrows in the small English village when he begins a relationship with widow Mrs. Jasmina Ali, a Pakistani shopkeeper.