Elizabeth Williams

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

A young college educated black man meets a girl of Asian descent and falls in love with her. Their love story was caught up with events burdened up by a racial animosity.