Sara Mosby was a brilliant young history professor at a university near Seattle and loved teaching and her research. Lately, however, her life had turned sour. Several irresponsible students--particularly some athletes--sought to get easy grades by making trouble for her. They complained to her new department chair, who seemed willing to do anything to deny Sara tenure. She was intrigued when a tall handsome man watched one of her classes from the hallway, then asked for direction in a self-study program. Now if she could just keep her mind on History when he smiled at her... Joshua Weathers...

Juliette Lewis is a business executive for a small chain of clothing stores based in Las Vegas. She is hard-working, ambitious, and enjoys her work. Juliette is also a widow with ambivalent feelings about her direction in life. She takes a short hiking vacation to get some solitude and reflect on her future. There, where she least expects it, she meets a man who seems to mesh with her in every way. Some people in her life will stop at nothing to keep them apart. Ultimately, their relationship is jeopardized by the differences in their philosophies of life. Nicholas Scott lives for his...

Marianne Woodson has a very clear life plan--to follow her mother's career path into politics in her rural Virginia county. This plan has become an obsession since her mother's untimely death. It does not include having a family and it certainly does not include allowing herself to become attracted to a "California Viking" who is a reminder of one of her most embarrassing moments. Jack Nissen knew what he wanted out of life from an early age. He wanted to be a biology researcher--and to call his own shots while doing so. It was an immense satisfaction to be a vital part of a successful...

Gerri Barton has lived a dutiful life, never straying far from her home in South Carolina. Her graduation from college (the first of her family to do so) is marred by a scornful, cheating boyfriend who dismisses her as unadventurous. There is a kernel of truth to this, she realizes, but it has more to do with the family finances than any lack of interest. Her parents, hearing of this, scraped together the money to provide Gerri with a low-budget adventure: a bus trip across the country to spend a few weeks with her brother, a soldier stationed near Seattle. In this year of 1969, such a trip...