The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter 11-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it.

One night in 1917, Beatrice Haven creeps out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, then watches as another woman claims the child as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start... Ten years later, Bea's hopes for her future remain unfulfilled. When she returns...

In the emotional follow-up to 'Blue-Eyed Devil' and 'Sugar Daddy', a macho Houston businessman is stunned to discover that he might be a father. Ella Varner claims that Jack Travis is the father of her sister's baby. The mother has abandoned the baby: who will look after him?

One of Dickens's greatest novels, 'Great Expectations' is also one of his most autobiographical stories, as the young protagonist Pip escapes from his troubled childhood experiences to learn for himself the perils of love, the dangers of wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies.

Martha is lost. She's been lost since she was a baby, abandoned in a suitcase on the train from Paris. Ever since, she's waited in the station's lost property for someone to claim her. It's been 16 years, but she's still hopeful. In the meantime, there are mysteries to solve: secret tunnels under the station, a suitcase that may have belonged to The Beatles, the Roman soldier who appears at the same time every day with his packed lunch. Not to mention...