A tale of family secrets and the damaging corruption of the British legal system from the author of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. In Bleak House, Charles Dickens not only pries apart the stultifying and ponderous conduct and contracts of British moneyed society, but also takes specific aim at an English judicial system in desperate need of modernization and reform. Featuring the voice of Esther Summerson-Dickens's only female narrator-the story...

Follows the life of a loving couple that is childless. Juana consults help from many sources so she can conceive, but to no avail. However, her husband Manolo has an illegitimate son by a prostitute. He hopes to raise him as their mutual son, but the boy's arrival marks a profound change in the couple's life, as Juana struggles with her relationship with the child and her husband.

The product of a forbidden love affair between a wealthy landowner and a humble fisherman, Juan de Dios is taken away and abandoned by his mother's sister to an orphanage at birth. Reunited with his father as an adult, he swears an oath of revenge on his father's deathbed and changes his name to Juan de Diablo. When he returns to Mexico to fulfill his oath, he is torn between twin sisters, the passionate Aimee and the virtuous Regina who turn out...

Discharged from the Navy with his duffle bag and service rifle in hand, Elvis sets out for the town of Corpus Christi. He is trying to track down the father he has never met. He soon learns that his father, David, is now the pastor of a thriving Baptist Church and wants nothing to do with Elvis. David orders his family to stay away from the stranger, but Elvis has already befriended the sheltered and lonely Malerie who has no idea of their blood relation....