"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...

For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns to even the score.

When her husband is kidnapped in a small South American country, Alice Bowman turns to Terry Thorne, a professional hostage negotiator, for help.

As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories. When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power....

Unsuccessful in warning the family about his cousin Henry's true, deadly nature, a young boy named Mark has to battle Henry by himself in a contest pitting good against ultimate evil.

Chronicles the life and career of statesman Adams, from the Boston Massacre to his son's presidency.

Glamorous Aunt Lucille decides not to let her abusive husband stand in the way of her dreams of television stardom.

Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.