El Afinador de Pianos

Maggie came to scenic little Lupine, Oregon, to live as a foster child in the Jarrett home. Thirteen years later, she’s a legitimate member of the family, living in the back yard cottage with two children. Her husband, Mo, has moved on to Texas in search of opportunity. He wants Maggie and their children to follow, but she is mired in indecision. Her baby’s a handful and her 9-year-old son, Jay-Jay, is in such trouble at school they want to put him in the “anger group.” She seeks comfort and advice from her friends, but her problems and theirs don’t seem to be occurring in the same...

This story includes eleven short stories from one of the most heartbreaking French storytellers today. In one story, two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate...

¿Qué ocurre cuando de pronto una simple promesa se torna arriesgada? Isabella Martin es enviada por Charles Weinstein, un aclamado director de cine, a Texas, a conseguir, para rodar su película, un rancho específico que tiene una manada de cuernilargos. El problema es que el dueño, Liam Lewis se niega a cederlo. Sin embargo, cuando Isabella piensa que ha fracasado en su empresa, recibe una llamada de Liam diciéndole que prestará el rancho, pero a cambio de una promesa: todos los días que dure la filmación Isabella tendrá que darle reportes de lo ocurrido durante el día, y si ocurre ...

La convertiría en su esposa... pero no le daría su amor. Libby Vincent haría cualquier cosa por que Romano Vincenzo supiera la verdad de por qué ella había permitido que la cruel familia Vincenzo le arrebatase a su bebé. Pero Romano no estaba dispuesto a escuchar. Romano necesitaba a Libby, esposa de su difunto hermano, por el bien de su sobrino. Y para conseguirlo haría todo lo que fuese necesario. Romano sabía que Libby haría cualquier cosa para poder ver a su hijo... incluso casarse con su mayor enemigo...