Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Jocelyn Minton is a young woman of many contradictions. Her wealthy mother married the local handyman. After her mother dies, her father returns to his blue-collar roots and marries a woman who has two gorgeous twin daughters who torment Joce. The only bright spot in her life is Edilean Harcourt, an older woman who connected with Joce on every level and enriched her life until she died. Joce thought she knew her mentor and protector very well, until...

In Boston, the family of a tycoon sit down to a reading of the will when there appears Julia, claiming to be a half-sister and demanding her share. In fact, Julia is a phony, invented by a son seeking control of his father's empire after murdering him.

A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book, a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, "Nell" sets out on a journey to England to try to...

Viscount Bradley's three nephews can split his fortune, but only if each redeems a fallen woman by marriage. Now all depends on the youngest, Peregrine Sullivan. The twenty thousand pounds that their father promised Alexandra Douglas and her invalid sister has vanished into the hands of their greedy cousin. Alexandra embarks on a charade to infiltrate Combe Abbey, her ancestral home, and take the money back. Visiting the abbey, Perry is intrigued:...