fiction / general

"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives"--Provided by publisher.

Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, and his wife Lady Sybil take a holiday in the country. Despite being out of his jurisdiction, when a body is discovered Sam seeks to solve the mystery.

Reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, while tending to his apples and peaches, takes in two very scared and pregnant teenagers, but when men show up with guns, William is set on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but also to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.

Sira Quiroga decides to follow her lover to Morocco bound for an exotic life only to be abandoned there just as World War II is starting, alone and penniless she does the one thing she knows how to do and becomes a coutuier and returns to Madrid where she designs clothes for Nazi officers' wives and she becomes entangled in a world of espionage and political conspiracy.