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Twenty-four-year-old Eric Marshall arrives on Prince Edward Island to become a substitute schoolmaster, even though he has a bright future in his wealthy family's business. Eric has taken the two-month teaching post only as a favor to a friend - but fate throws in his path a beautiful, mysterious girl named Kilmeny Gordon. With jet black hair and sea blue eyes, Kilmeny immediately captures Eric's heart. But Kilmeny cannot speak, and Eric is concerned for and bewitched by this shy, sensitive mute girl.

The Second Chance is a suspenseful tale of kidnapping, corporate espionage, and forgotten love that takes the listener from the red dirt roads of Alabama to the silver mines of Mexico.

A deadly mine cave-in at Real de Catorce, Mexico, changes Patricia Morelos' life forever. The disaster she faces as owner of the mine is overshadowed by personal tragedy. Her only child, 17-year-old Max, is kidnapped when he goes to help the victims.

In this tender love story, Hetty graduates from college early to marry her beloved Morgan Morganthal. But beauty queen Katrinka wants the rich, handsome Morgan and his vast business empire for herself. She enlists the help of Ignatz, the cruel circus elephant trainer. Such beauty, ambition, and cunning put Hetty's pure and constant love to the test.

In 1966, just two weeks after the IRA blew up Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin, Eddie McGrath is knocked down and killed by the airport bus near the spot where the Pillar used to stand. His death turns his 17-year-old daughter, Nuala, into an orphan. She never knew her mother, Gertie, at all, and when she looked into her father's things she found items of her mother that deeply disturbed her....