Lillie Bauer, co-owner of a Baltimore wedding planning business, is looking for love. When she finally finds her own true love, her new outlook sheds light on her sister Tacy's increasingly destructive relationship with a deeply...

Revolutionizing traditional mortuary practices, Richard Connable develops a method of preserving the human dignity of the deceased. His wife Lucy struggles to keep their marriage whole as she stands by his side and supports him while he...

Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of colonial Massachusetts, she is made to suffer...

Middle-aged mother of two Ginnie Holmes embarks on an affair with a married man, taking to an abandoned river house for their Thursday trysts. But when she thinks she sees a murderer by the river, she must decide whether to risk...

An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with destiny. But then she becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. 

From Paris to Washington, Hollywood to the Greek Islands, against the glittering world of theatre, films, high finance and beautiful people, four star-crossed lives play out a deadly game of passion, intrigue and corruption.

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers--but they will soon meet their downfall.

Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fueled...

Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to...