Time: 1755 - 1763

Kasch is a lonely eccentric man in his forties who has survived a bitterly disappointing marriage only to fall in love, against his will, with a fourteen-year-old named Laney. An inhabitant of a distant, improverished region, Childwold, Laney embodies all that Kasch finds fatally irresistible. As Kasch succumbs to the beauty and mystery of Childwold and Laney's family, his control over his destiny loosens and he is plunged into personal catastrophe, even as Laney and her family are freed.

Frontier life in northern New York State in the first decade of the 19th century.

A doctor in a small town in the Adirondacks befriends a surreptitious wealthy newcomer and finds mystery and romance in his wake.

A strange girl disappears from her family's home on an Adirondack lake and is tracked down by Fleming Stone, detective.

When a detective discovers that his 16 year old sister has been murdered, he returns to the lake where the incident occurred to solve it on his own.

An Adirondack landowner is shot and his body is burned, along with two of his servants. A sheriff searches for answers.

A college student stays at an Adirondack resort compromises herself with a former Olympic athlete and murder suspect.