"Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. Heralded as a masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is...

Translation of: Cae la noche tropical. Two aged Argentine sisters share a life of gossip in tropical Rio.

"A fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: it sounded like myth, but archeologist Jillian Sherwood believed it was real, and she was willing to put up with anything to find it--even Ben Lewis. Ruffian, knock-about, and number one river guide in Brazil, Ben was all man, over six feet of rock-hard muscles that rippled under his khakis, with lazy blue eyes that taunted her from his tanned face. Jillian...

The loves of Eleanor, an English high-society girl. The first is Hugo, a British diplomat who gets her pregnant. She marries him and gives birth to a girl. Hugo is posted to Brasilia, she has an affair with a local playboy, divorces Hugo, marries Sandy. She has a son, divorces Sandy, goes back to Hugo. By the author of The Rising Storm.