Bohjalian, Christopher A

Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.

Terry and Laura Sheldon try to ease their grief over the drowning deaths of their twin daughters by adopting Albert, a ten-year-old African-American boy,whose history gives him little hope that this home will be his last, but while Terry and Laura struggle to keep their marriage together.in the face of infidelity, Albert meets an elderly neighbor who offers him friendship and gives him a sense of pride through stories of the buffalo soldiers of the old West.

Reverend Stephen Drew is shattered when Alice Hayward is murdered by her husband just hours after being baptized and finds his faith in God slipping away, until he meets Heather Laurent, whose work studying angels helps Drew renew his spirituality in the face of a police investigation that suggests he may have been connected to Alice's death.

In January 1945, eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, her lover, and a Jew who escaped a train bound for Auschwitz face the elements and witness the horrors of war as they travel west in hopes of reaching the British and American lines.