Nora Roberts's Courting Catherine begins a story of sisters bound by their family's ancestral home and determined to forge their own futures. The once grand mansion known as the Towers has stood on the Maine coast for decades. It was supposed to symbolize the Calhoun family legacy, but instead has fallen into a desperate state of disrepair. Catherine "C. C." Calhoun and her sisters have inherited both the mansion and the responsibility of restoring...

Dr. Miranda Jones is attacked outside her Maine home as she returns from a busy lecture tour. Determined to put the assault out of her mind, she welcomes the distraction offered by a summons to Italy to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze of a Medici courtesan known as the Dark Lady. However, it nearly destroys her reputation when it is declared a hoax.