New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky touches the heart and spirit with this charming story, first published in 1982, of a young woman's search for passion and renewal. No one could have imagined naïve and pampered Rory Matthews in the wilderness of the Yukon Territory-least of all Rory herself. But arriving unexpectedly to join her brother on a scientific expedition was Rory's way of putting her spoiled, rich-girl ways behind her. Though...

A brilliant movie career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, shy Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed young man named Felix touched her heart, then vanished from her life. Now, she's about to do something shocking and outrageous--sell her house and leave Hollywood behind. Making her new home in the quiet town of Chula Vista, she meets Lex Sanders, a wealthy rancher and breeder...

Twenty years after her mother's murder at the hands of her lover, a young woman returns to reopen their family hotel on the North Fork of Long Island, only to find some ghostly happenings and an uncomfortable attraction to the son of the man who murdered her mother--her half-brother.

A young woman, haunted by her past, finds herself torn between madness and forbidden love and imprisoned by the dark powers she possesses.