A chance encounter between two Americans at the Ritz changes their lives forever. THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton.
Domestic violence rips apart a young woman's life in a tiny Illinois town.
A young woman is charged with killing her boyfriend. A woman seeks solace for herself, her daughter and their horse from a wrangler. A woman contends with a man who brutally attacked her. The ordeals of an assistant district attorney as she prosecutes a college professor for kidnapping his neighbor's child. A murder trial recalls the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.