A historical and romantic adventure woven around the story of Florence Nightingale.Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside of London. While learning various jobs, she is drawn to the eldest son, Davis. Her fascination with him grows deeper, but more hopeless, since the two are separated not just by class, but also by Davis's love for...

Throughout Three Lives, in which "The Good Anna" appears, Gertrude Stein explores the heterosexual and lesbian relationships of three common women, Anna, Melanctha, and Lena. In her attempts to capture the thoughts and consciousness of these women, Stein uses a number of stylistic innovations that contributed significantly to the development of modernism, influencing such writers as Ernest Hemingway. In "The Good Anna," for example, Stein employs...

From different worlds......to the perfect family? Entrusted to take his late colleague's young son to his grandmother, Manhattan financier Matt McLellan hires down-on-her-luck skipper Meg O'Hara to take them across Australia's Bass Strait. He might be a billionaire, but on board Meg's boat she's the boss! The flame-haired beauty gets under the committed bachelor's skin, and by the time they reach their destination Matt's wondering if he's finally...