When Mairi MacDonald loses her only daughter at birth, Mairi takes Christy into the warmth and fellowship of the close-knit island community to raise as her own, but finds it hard to welcome the waif into her heart, blaming Christy for taking the place of her true daughter. Longing for a mother's love, Christy finds companionship with her cherished foster brother David. When David is crippled in a near fatal accident, Christy realizes the true depth...

Author of the acclaimed novel The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty is an American original whose infectious prose will swiftly ensnare any reader. Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation to become playwright in residence of a troubled Rocky Mountain town.

A story within a story in which a historian discovers a manuscript in an old trunk which proves to be the memoirs of Charles O'Brien, an itinerant healer in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in which he tells of his influence on some of the great writers of the time, and explains how his life changed at the age of forty when he fell in love with, and was rejected by, a beautiful, young Englishwoman.

Cristiana Helyngton must reveal a secret told to her by her dying husband in order to free herself from a nunnery and her daughters from the greedy clutches of her late husband's relatives; however, it is a secret that could very well destroy those most dear to her.

The Kuran Station, a massive property once owned by the White family dynasty and has fallen into ruin. Young William lives with his parents on a modest farm in the shadow of the once-great place until a tragic accident leads him into its heart. There, he meets the current owner,his great uncle, John McIvor. At first, Uncle John seems angry and frightening to William, but after they spend more time together, William learns that there is much more to...