"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...

Three eras. Three women desperate for hope. Three reasons to believe it won't come in time.

The Commitments was praised as one of the freshest and funniest first novels in years. In The Snapper, Doyle has produced another brilliant comedy of everyday life in Dublin. A young single girl who shares a room with her sisters endures pregnancy while her family and the whole town wonder who the father is.

After her fiance is killed, Cat Calder, a Montana rancher's daughter vows never to marry, but sex with a stranger is acceptable. The result is a son and years later when the stranger is appointed sheriff and she faces danger her vow is tested.

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

In New Jersey, a city explodes after a white woman reports her car was hijacked by a black man with her baby inside. But is she telling the truth? The police raid the black ghetto and blacks cry racism. A black policeman and a white woman reporter investigate.

During the mid-seventeenth-century persecution of unwed mothers in the aftermath of Charles I's execution, Rachel Lockyer is arrested and tried for murder when a dead child is found in the woods after her affair with Leveller William Walwyn.

France in the 1950s. Set in a provincial town called Chateauroux. Rachel and Pierre, although from different social backgrounds, fall in love.