Faith Baldwin

Maggie Knox is the new girl in Little Oxford, the charming New England town familiar to readers of Faith Baldwin's Any Village, No Bed of Roses and Time and the Hour. After the death of her great-aunt Hattie, Maggie arrives from her native Hawaii determined to make a new life for herself in the wonderful antique-filled house Hattie has bequeathed to her. Though Maggie shivers through a cold and snowy winter, homesick for the family she has left behind in a kinder climate, she soon makes warm friends among many of the town's inhabitants. One of the first to befriend her is her lawyer, Matthew Comstock, "the best-looking homely man" Maggie has ever seen. Matt is the most eligible bachelor for miles, with a penchant for women who are not looking for a permanent relationship. But Maggie is more interested in a married man. Against all her best intentions, Maggie finds herself drifting into love with Dr. Alan Carstairs, a physician on the staff of the hospital where she has taken a job. When tragedy strikes Alan and his wife, Lily, Maggie is confronted with the most difficult, and tempting, situation of her life. By the time Maggie resolves her dilemma, she has earned her own place in Little Oxford and is no longer just the new girl in town.

When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town she grew up in she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, life and loves but, alongside them, painful memories; a past she couldn't allow to destroy her. So when an old classmate appears in London asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter, long buried memories resurface. But when tragedy strikes, Frieda has no choice but to return home and confront her past. And monsters no one else believes are real. Through a fog of alibis, conflicting accounts, hidden agendas and questionable alibis, Frieda can trust no one in trying to piece together the shocking truth, past and present.

Davy and Meg have been married fourteen years when Davy commits a brief and meaningless indiscretion while on a business trip. Davy has never seen the woman before and doesn't expect that he'll ever see her again. It is an incident that occurs without importance to Davy. Yet the consequences of those few thoughtless moments soon swell to towering proportions that threaten to bring Davy and Meg's world crashing down upon them...

Only an actress completely absorbed in herself could ahve missed hearing of Anthony Amberton, the explorer-writer all the women in America adored. Cherry Chester was just such an actress. Only an adventurer who had spent his life traveling to have adventures could have missed seeing Cherry Chester on the stage, the screen, and in the magazines. Amberton was just such a man. Only these two could have met without recognition and could have fallen in love without the glitter of fame outshining the glow of love. And, of course, their love couldn't last. Or could it?