For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will

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With the aid of her partner Dylan Tremayne, Lady Serafina Trent aims to help her neighbors, the Haydens, determine who the true heir is to their sizable estate. After some investigating, she shocks the Haydens when she reveals that the child they believed had died at birth is actually alive and living as a criminal in London's worst slum. Then the Hayden's butler is murdered and the stakes are dangerously raised. Now Lady Trent's sleuthing skills...

It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent, a woman of means, but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. Wealthy widow of a nobleman and daughter of a famous scientist, she's a skeptic who only trusts what can be proven. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him...

"Kat Winslow is volunteering as a missionary. But her calling is interrupted by two scorned suitors. Perhaps her high calling is to one of these men instead?"--Provided by publisher.

As America makes its ascent as a world power, three young daughters of Winslow come to New York City seeking careers and direction for their lives. Ruth finds fulfillment as a nurse among the immigrants. Priscilla has a passion for show business. And Esther, engaged to a wealthy businessman, yearns for meaning in her life. It's 1902 and life is full of promise for the Winslow cousins, but are they ready for what they'll discover?

"Sky Winslow is The Reluctant Bridegroom who is leading a wagon train of brides westward from New York to the men of Oregon City"--Provided by publisher.