Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten-year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand -- and perhaps recapture -- the feelings that drew them together in the first place, their interior lives are sensitively and convincingly explored.

Hurricane Hugo gives Charleston attorney Rob Wyatt just the chance he's been looking for to simplify his life and quit his law practice, in this heartwarming, entertaining novel by the author of Rich In Love.

In the summer of 1864, sixteen-year-old Rhoda Strong lives in the Lumbee Indian settlement of Robeson County, North Carolina, which has become a pawn in the bloody struggle between the Union and Confederate armies. The community is besieged by the marauding Union Army as well as the desperate Home Guard who are hell-bent on conscripting the young men into deadly forced labor. Daughter of a Scotsman and his formidable Lumbee wife, Rhoda is fiercely loyal to her family and desperately fears for their safety, but her love for the outlaw hero Henry Berry Lowrie forces her to cast her lot with...

Brought up in a mixed-race community, Rhoda is the first of her family to be able to read and her parents have plans for her. But the coming of the Civil War brings labour conscription for her brothers, who become outlaws; and when Rhoda falls in love with the outlaw leader Henry, her mother fears the relationship can only lead to disaster.