Managing a Greek restaurant in upstate New York, Georgie Nikolopatos has a life like a soap opera--and that\"s before she\"s visited by her estranged mother, soap star Melanie Ashley. And the dramatic family reunion takes a chilling turn when another long-lost relative turns up...dead....

Restaurant manager Georgie Nikolopatos\" s husband of twenty years, Spiro, has flown the coop. The historic Bonaparte House, a landmark in Bonaparte Bay, New York, is the subject of many a local legend, from having been built as a refuge for Napoleon to having a stash of gold bars hidden somewhere in its walls....

In Thomas Hardy\'s first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak....