Belva Plain

Sisters Caroline and Lore leave Germany on the eve of the second World War, to start a new life in America.

Margaret and Arthur Crawfield discover that the son they love dearly who is now dying is not their child. Suspecting a hospital mix-up, the Crawfields feel compelled to search for their biological child who has grown up in another home, although they know this may tear apart another family.

Born into poverty and fear, Anna is desperate to leave her native Poland. Determined to make something of herself, Anna moves into a cramped New York slum and finds a job in a sweatshop. When two very different men fall in love with her, Anna is destined to be forever torn in love and loyalty.

At 36, Jennie Rakowsky's dreams were coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man, her career as a lawyer was sky-rocketing, and she had never been more beautiful. Then the secret she had hidden for nineteen years threatened to shatter it all. From growing up as a child of impoverished Holocaust survivors to discovering the glittering, exclusive world of America's Jewish aristocracy, Jennie had learned how important family and heritage could...

Donald Wolfe, a 25-year-old North Dakota native, comes to New York City in 1968 to practice law. Five years later, he meets and falls for the captivating Lillian Morris. Marrying in haste, he repents big time when Lillian reveals herself to be disturbingly erratic. After she becomes pregnant, the two divorce, but when Donald judges his daughter, Bettina, to be neglected, he kidnaps her. Taking to the road, he invents a new past for himself and adopts...

Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.

The Greys, pillars of their community, are being torn apart as evil simmers below the surface of their seemingly admirable American family. Before the ordeal runs its ugly course, someone will be dead.

The Farrells are a proud American family and Random Winds is the forceful saga of their ambitious and love-torn lives from the days of the Depression to the present. Enoch, a poor country doctor, is succeeded by his son Martin, a young med student whose ambition is to rise above the role of rural physician. WHen Martin meets Mary Fern, love and ambition are united. Mary's wealthy family has the means to launch Martin's career as a surgeon. But Martin's...

Miriam Raphael, raised in the lap of luxury in antebellum New Orleans, is unhappily married and in the midst of the Civil War must reconcile her wifely duties and a forbidden passion.