Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son.

This is a story which tells of the immigrants who came to build new lives for themselves, who struggled against poverty, drought, and storm, and who came to love and understand the great prairie.

In 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner mark the return of Nathaniel's daughter Hannah, while her half-brother Daniel joins the militia and his twin, Lily, falls in love with a dark and dangerous stranger.

At the heart of this third volume of Larry McMurtry's Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty, who, although Tasmin intends him to be an English gentleman like his grandfather, is at the moment living the childhood of a savage. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter" about an adulteress, Hester Prynne, and the scorn she receives from the people in her Puritan New England village.