Isabelle Holland Ordre des livres (chronologique)

This timeless story of homelessness introduces two sisters traveling on the orphan train West, fighting to stay together and find a place where they belong.

Charles didn't know much about life...until he met The Man Without a face... "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him...." Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love.

Die Reverend Claire Aldington war verärgert, als sie erfuhr, dass eine Kollegin ermordet worden war. Dann erfuhr sie, dass ihr Verlobter die Frau heimlich gekannt hatte. Als weitere Morde geschehen, schließt sich Claire der Polizei an, um den Mörder zu fassen – der sich als ihr Mann herausstellen könnte.

Furchtbar verbrannt in einem Kinderzimmerbrand, weil ihr Halbbruder sie eingesperrt hatte, kehrt Barbara Kilgaren in ihr Elternhaus in den Westindischen Inseln zurück, um festzustellen, dass ihr Bruder aufgrund einer revolutionären Bewegung nicht genügend Hilfe bekommt, um die Familienplantage vor dem Scheitern zu bewahren.