Like a modern-day, middlebrow version of Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP, LOOKING BACK chronicles the lives of three women--Cecile, Amanda, and Norma--who become best friends in college and stay close forever after. Despite their different ...

Gerald and Hyacinth are the perfect couple. He's a gorgeous and successful plastic surgeon, and she's a stay-at-home mom. But then Gerald commits an unspeakable act of betrayal, and the marriage falls apart. Now Hyacinth--who gave up ...

Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. In Heartwood, her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen, bringing...

In this magnificent return to the world of Evergreen, Henrietta Roth, an extraordinary woman, fights to control her destiny; and three turbulent generations come vividly to life against a background of immigrant struggle, war, and pas...

With unerring insight and emotional power, Belva Plain, in her extraordinary novel, tells the story of a family divided and of the proud matriarch who takes a bold last stand to unite her warring children in what may be their last Hom...

No one explores the rich tapestry of the human heart as Belva Plain does. Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers have captivated readers and garnered legions of devoted fans. Now Plain dazzles us once again with a new novel o...

Pregnant and unwed, Caroline flees wartime Europe for America in 1939 and meets Joel Hirsch, who offers marriage and respectability, until the day her daughter Eve brings Caroline's carefully crafted world crashing down once again. Re...

At thirty-six, Jennie Rakowsky's dreams were coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man, her career as a lawyer was skyrocketing, and she had never been more beautiful. And then the secret she had hidden for nineteen year...

She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife and mother...

The conflict between fate and the choices we make dominates this novel chronicling the adult life of Southern gentleman Robb MacDaniel. Following the death of his parents, Robb leaves his post as a small-town school teacher, abandons ...

She was a girl as beautiful and innocent as her  family's lush Caribbean plantation -- until she  discovered the darkness of desire and became a woman.  Expelled from paradise, Teresa Francis would be  swept into marriage and ...