"Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a 'normal" baby'" --

Rescuing a newborn that has been abandoned in a dumpster, LAPD officer Cindy Decker, the wife of detective Peter Decker, begins a search through inner-city Hollywood in search of the baby's mother and uncovers a dangerous drug ring.

"For social worker Grace Schweitzer, arriving at Ben Hochsteller's farm to pick up an abandoned baby feels like stepping into her past - especially after a blizzard forces her to stay . . . She's losing her heart to ben and the faith she once held dear, but has she changed too much to return to this life?" -- Back cover. Will she go home when the snow stops falling? For social worker Grace Schweitzer, arriving at Ben Hochstetlers farm to pick up...

Firefly Cloak is the powerfully vivid coming-of-age story of Tessa Lee, who, after being abandoned by her mother, sets off on a risky journey to discover what she has lost. When eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis's back and their mother's favorite housecoat, which...

Arriving in Tangier with her new husband only to encounter the estranged best friend she has not seen in more than a year, Alice allows her friend to introduce her to the rhythms and culture of Morocco, only to be quickly stifled by the woman's controlling nature.-- For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome...

"Olivia Marshall will do anything to make her town's bicentennial celebration a success--even work with her ex-fiancé. It's only for a few weeks and then she'll never see Ben Kincaid again. But when her four-year-old nephew is abandoned on her doorstep, Olivia finds herself asking Ben for help. Soon, their tentative truce starts to feel like something more. But will Ben's past trauma destroy their second chance...before it even starts?" -- Page [4]...

"The Earl of Marsden--better known as Mars to all--has lived his life by his own rules...until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package--a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars won't let his child be cast adrift, except he doesn't know the first thing about babies. Panicking, he turns to a woman for help. Not just any woman, but Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Mars's greatest critic....

"The small towns and wide plains of 1880 Texas come to life when impossible situations and an abandoned child bring Nick Lovelace and Anne Tillerton together. Is Nick prepared to risk his future plans for an unexpected chance at love?"--

"Home to care for his ailing father, former minister Matthew Rivers intends to spend his time contemplating his future--until he discovers an infant left in the back of his truck. Handing off responsibility to nurse Parker Smythe, the woman he once rejected, should be easy. But as the baby brings them closer together, will Matthew leave as planned--or open his heart to a new possibility?" -- Page [4] cover.

M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.