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Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her overwhelming grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events that occurred when she was a child in San Francisco's Chinatown. When she becomes disillusioned with her marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover her missing memories.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, three sisters struggle to keep their family together even as the tentacles of war reach into their homeland.

In World War II Yugoslavia, Egypt, and the Soviet Union, Cameron Hayes is an intrepid woman reporter striving to prove herself in a man's world. Reluctantly, Cameron teams with Johnny Shanahan, her father's ace correspondent though not on the approved suitor's list, and together they nail their stories even as the Nazis advance. Aspiring actress Blair and sincere Christian Jackie, Cameron's sisters, also have their plotlines, though presumably their...

n the midst of bitter conflict at home and abroad, Toward the sunrise follows the paths of three sisters caught in the heartbreaking consequences of war and of prejudice.

The "war to end all wars" is over, but the Cold War is just beginning. Cameron works as a foreign correspondent for her fatherś newspaper while she continues to try to obtain a Soviet visa in order to join her husband, Alex, who is not allowed to leave Russia. Blair is in Washington D.C., where husband, Gary, works for the State Department. Jackie is in California, struggling to cope with widowhood and single motherhood. All three are experiencing...

"The Golden Age of Hollywood is in the business of creating stars. Rosie Worth, now starlet Roxie Price, has found everything she's wanted in the glamour of the silver screen. With adoring fans and a studio-mogul husband, she's finally silenced the heartache of the past. Her future shines bright--until the fated Black Friday when it all comes crashing down. When Roxy loses everything, she finds herself disgraced and penniless. Her only hope is to...