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Set in a past that parallels the present and future, this is a story about a land called Dunia mothering two races of people: the light-skinned and the dark-skinned. A large body of water bisects Dunia into two parts. Each part becomes a sovereign state at the center of cultural, spiritual, political and military rivalries caused by climate change. At sunset a man climbed on top of a steep rock on the island of Dusampeal in the middle of the body of water. With the sun to his back, he stretched his right arm sideways, punched the air and announced,

Dessa Faustova is a gifted Ukrainian ballerina on the cusp of preadolescence. With fellow dancers Klara and Inna, she comes into possession of a mysteriously coded address book, but their journey to decrypt its meaning stalls abruptly when Dessa is implicated in the gruesome murder of a local predator. Desperate for answers, she enlists the help of her enigmatic Uncle Leo, a glamorous con artist with a penchant for gambling and theft, who may or may not have deadly ties to Kiev's burgeoning underworld of the early 1990s. Dessa's dangerous foray into darkness parallels an insidious mania sweeping a nation still reeling from decades of oppression.

Sixteen year old Elizabeth Sharpe, disobedient one too many times, is banished to Honiton to live with her aunt and cousins in the hope she will learn the error of her ways. Four others travelon the coach, all of whom for better and worse, are to play a part in her life. When the typhus comes to London, Elizabeth comes to realize life is not infinite. Where she expected to find onlyunhappiness and rebellion, instead she comes to love the town, and one person in particular.

A Devon lacemaker dies of a fever in 1770, leaving her children to fend for themselves. With a crippled younger brother, Peter, eleven year old Susannah must find the determination and the means to keep them alive. Their love for each other and the kindness of strangers creates an inspiring story of the goodness and bond of humanity.

Vancouver Island, September 2003. In a family where the need to be loved has always outweighed the need to conform, further developments are taking place. A new baby is welcomed, which Kate Wilder embraces with her usual optimism, but which also creates a need within that her husband David does not share; their son is healthy, they know who they are, where is the need to prove anything more?Kate cannot settle and when the details of her father's birth begin to encroach on their relatively peaceful unit, she rises to a challenge which proves potentially damaging to more than one relationship. To her, there are amends to be made and hearts to be salved, and Kate is not alone in this particular quest. For one person time is running out.

The O'Donovans' affluent lifestyle is mostly unaffected by simmering tensions for Home Rule in Ireland. Change intrudes upon their lives when Grace O'Donovan welcomes her older sister, Deirdre, home from her year abroad. Grace expects to find her sister worldlier, more sophisticated after her sojourn in Europe. Instead, Deirdre is moody and listless. Unbeknownst to Grace, Deirdre is concealing a well-guarded secret. When their childhood friend and neighbor Cecil Sloane discovers Deirdre's hidden past, he demands her hand in marriage in return for his silence. A price so dear it shakes the O'Donovan family to its core, tests Grace's courage and loyalty.

JENNIFER ROBERTS has a full life: a corporate executive husband, two young daughters and a teaching career she enjoys. When she discovers her mother is struggling to care for her dying father, she returns to the MacAulay household to help. She sees her mother hide something in the base of the old clock, and unease about her parents' unconventional relationship resurfaces. The secret she uncovers calls into question her view of her parents and of herself. Grappling with impending death, each recalls the past. Their memories differ; some are unreliable, others are contrived. Love is a constant, but it comes at a price.

Skye, November 1993. It is two months since Kate Wilder lost her mother, her identity and, according to her family, her sanity. What other explanation can there be for her following the astounding path she has chosen? But Kate is in love and nobody has the right to tell her what to do. Not now. On Vancouver Island, a man wrestles with emotions he barely recognises - hope, amazement, joy - all of which are steeped in fear. Fear that he may lose his daughter for good, that life may turn its back on him a second time or, worst of all, that he might damage a unique young woman beyond repair. When the road ahead is unclear, sometimes you have to rely on trust.