"Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. He calls his wife, Abby, to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes when she sees something in the road ahead. Over Grady's protests, Abby gets out of the car. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver's door is open, her phone is still there... but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still...

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...

Four very different women--the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs. Wilkins, the sad sweet-faced Mrs. Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs. Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lacy Caroline Dexter--are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean in April. Each in turn blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring, and finds their spirits stirring. Quite unexpected changes occur. Written in 1922, this is a deceptive and timely novel immured in the post-war...