Rizzo's War by Lou Manfredo
features NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen, who are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman. They learn that the councilman may be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety.
In Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh,
a destitute widow in Regency England stands accused of murdering her husband and must now barter her beauty in order to survive. She sets her sights on Stephen Huxtable, the irresistibly attractive Earl of Merton and London's most eligible bachelor.
In The Disappeared by Kim Echlin,
a young woman from Montreal travels to war-ravaged Cambodia in search of her lover, Serey, a Cambodian refugee who returns to his home country when the borders are re-opened to find his family.
Coventry by Helen Humphreys
features Harriet, a widow, who stands on the roof of Coventry Cathedral as part of the nightly fire watch, when first the factories and then the church itself are set on fire in an air attack. In the ensuing chaos Harriet and a young man have to find the way back to his home where he left his mother.