"Some loves must remain secret until the time is right. Declaring one's love can be hard--even risky--especially when faced with some of life's greatest challenges. Separated by class, time, distance, and more, nine historical novellas explore the challenges involved when you love someone but can't reveal your heart to them. Instead, notes of affection, acts of kindness, gifts of admiration, and lots of prayer are circulated."--Page [4] of cover.

Paige Turner is trying to outrun her past, but there it is, tossed back in her face anytime she manages to get two steps ahead. Her need for Ryan got in the way of revenge, took her off course. Redirected her focus. Before she knew it, he'd made his way into her life. Into her heart. True love doesn't let secrets as big as these stay buried. And when the truth about Paige's father is finally exposed, Ryan will do anything to fix everything. Paige...

Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

"Crees que conoces a tu pareja. Crees que tu matrimonio es perfecto. Pero todos tenemos secretos. Y la verdad siempre emerge, aunque la ahogues. La verdad nunca muere, aunque la mates. Frank y Grace forman el matrimonio perfecto. Pero cuando emprenden junto a sus dos hijos un viaje en autocaravana a través de los Estados Unidos, no pueden imaginar que se dirigen a un encuentro inesperado, capaz de destruir a la familia y poner sus vidas en peligro...

A reformist teacher. A dangerous student clique. A powerful novel about secrets and redemption set in the shadows of McCarthy-era America. Rosemary Chivers is haunted by the choices she made as a teenager - and by those made for her by a controlling mother. Now, in the Cold War era of conformity and suspicion, Rosemary is a modern new teacher at a school for troubled girls, where she challenges the narrow curriculum meant to tame restless young minds....

"In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore - old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who...