Winter Solstice

"When Oscar Blundell suffers a double tragedy, he accepts an invitation to take over a rambling old house in Scotland, taking Elfrida Phipps, his friend and neighbour, with him. As the house becomes a magnet for waifs and strays, it seems to weave a magic spell for Elfrida and Oscar. "

Where You Find It

"'Valentine's Day makes me embarrassed,' writes Janice Galloway in the opening lines of Where You Find It. The collection deals with love in its many guises - the way relationships suddenly turn; how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt. Love in Galloway's world is more likely to resemble a heart-shaped ham sandwich than the flowers and chocolates that bear the standard in more traditional ""love stories."" In the manner of Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver, Galloway's tales explore the psychological aspects of love and the overpowering yearning to communicate. Whether it's the title piece, which tells of a prostitute's passion for her pimp's kisses, or ""Valentine,"" in which a celebratory evening is undermined by minor disappointments and misunderstandings, the stories that comprise Where You Find It assume that powerful feelings always contain a dimension of disturbance. "

"Where Are You, Henry?"

"Jenny's boyfriend Henry loves her. His passion for his work has taken him to theartic for nine months. Nine months is a long time and Henry is hopeless at communicating - is he worth waiting for? Along comes Sanjay who is gorgeous, eager and THERE - and stuck in a loveless arranged marriage to Nita. Jenny's work colleage, Kate, would like to bed Nita. When Henry returns, expecting Jenny to have waited for him, he's in for a surprise or two ...

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Westward Hearts: The Amelia Dale Archer Story

"When pioneering female doctor Amelia Dale Archer is passed over for the position of chief of staff at Philadelphia Hospital, she knows she will never get what is rightly hers because of the prejudiced attitude toward women in medicine. Adee, as her friends know her, realizes that the only place where she can practice medicine is where doctors are in desperately short supply -the West Coast. So, she joins a wagon train heading to Los Angeles.

In the Conestoga wagon, sixty-one-year-old Adee and her four granddaughters struggle to survive the rough three-thousand-mile crossing trying their collective knowledge, skill, wit, and love - the kind of severe test that only a journey such as this can bring. "