title: The Pathways to the Heart
author: Multiple Authors
description: Kimberly Eden: Caroline has been happy living in London with her aunt for the last 10 years, but is unexpectedly called home to her father s home. Dreading the visit, she returns home and soon realizes that living with her father is more unnerving and difficult than she remembers. Will she return to her aunt in London or face her father and try to help her small hometown? Randal Wyndam has just finished university and expectantly returned home for congratulations but is quickly sent to correct the folly of his uncle in a small town of no consequence. Bitter at his family s demands, he retires to his uncle s newly purchased estate to improve its value, but finds the town much more endearing than expected. Mandi Ellsworth: In 1886 Seattle, a riot occurred in which most of the Chinese men in the city were forced out. This story is based two years after that occurrence. The main characters are a Chinese woman who was driven from Seattle to find other means of employment and finds it at a ranch in Oregon, where she meets a man willing to defy the dictates of his parents in order to help her. Paula Kremser: Mary Worthington has been raised by her grandfather the Duke and she has been brought up very protected with private tutors. Her grandfather only allowed her to do charity work among neighbors, but no social events. Doctor Taylor is wondering if he can pursue elusive Mary or not. He assumes she is the same social level as the patients he visits. Mary and Doctor Taylor find a couple more opportunities to meet up and are quickly falling for each other, but both have held back important information. Will they be able to fall in love despite their differences? E.B. Wheeler: Helen Botsari arrives in 1920s Utah as a Greek picture bride, excited for a new life in a land of opportunity. When she discovers that her prospective groom was killed in a railroad accident, she finds herself alone in a foreign land that is increasingly hostile to immigrants. The only hope she sees is in working menial jobs to save up enough to return to Greece. Can fellow immigrant Dimitrios Nikolaidis convince her that America holds a bright future for her too?