The life of a miserly old man is changed forever when he finds and adopts a beautiful little girl.

When Tanya's guardian dies, having lost her home and the tavern where she has spent most of her life, she sets out on a perilous quest to petition the queen for help. Tanya broke up her first fight at 11. By the time she was a teenager she knew everything about the tavern, and she could run it with her eyes closed. She'd never let anyone-- a drunkard or a captain of the queen's guard-- take advantage of her. But when her guardian dies, she might...

"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival -- and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...

After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.

When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.

Emily, the Cape Light mayor, receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift: a baby girl is left outside the church with a note begging the discoverer to take care of her. Emily wants badly to adopt the baby, but her husband has "been there, done that" and doesn't want to revisit those days. Emily must come to terms with her duty, her own feelings and what her heart truly desires.

"Ghosts of New York interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend, entangled in a set of relationships with repercussions, both personal and political, that extend for decades and travel around the world; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy,...

"Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater. But like all productions, August's wondrous time inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises from pickpocket street urchin to star student at the stuffiest boarding school in the...

"A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate - in the form of a newborn left in the restroom - has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment." When John Hartwell...