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Kinsey is running. She promised her dying sister she’d take her nephew away from his shiftless father, even if it brands her a kidnapper. She’s taken them as far as she can, but the money has run out in Kansas. Viktor is running, too. By now he should’ve been married to the former teacher, but she left him at the altar and now he’s the running joke. Kinsey’s desperate for a job and a safe place. Viktor needs to hire a school marm and offers her both. Their prayers are answered as slowly they open their hearts to each other, but their fragile love is built on secrets. When ...

Alice Wainwright can’t remove the port wine stain birthmark that brands her face, but she can remove the stigma of spinsterhood by agreeing to a loveless marriage. Gambling wastrel, Joshua Whitehead, wants her money. Alice simply wants to hide away from society and relieve her brother of his family responsibility. But hiding away isn’t an option when Joshua’s groom, Hawk, steps out of the shadows and breaks up her engagement. Anger and pride fuel Hawk’s stubborn vow to make his own way in the world and turn his employer’s ill-mannered stallion into a champion racehorse, but he ...

To serve his country, Union Captain Lawrence Wainwright becomes Lincoln’s spy. He infiltrates the Richmond mansion of the Confederacy’s power players by assuming the identity of a slow witted boy/man. As a Cavalryman of faith-in-action, Lawrence resents his alter ego, especially when Rachel Hawksley steps into his world, heart, and soul. She’s pure stubborn Yankee on a mission of her own to cross enemy lines and find her MIA brother. She’s got a colt revolver hidden under her skirts, and she collects lost lambs of children and slaves like a bee collects pollen. When she mistakenly ...

Julie and Nick were perfect for each other but, like all humans, blind to the obvious. Claude knew that was why he’d been heavenly sent to Desert Streams. He had his agenda neatly planned, right down to the artful mustard garnish on his chili dogs. What says togetherness like two young people planning the Easter breakfast menu? But how to get opinionated, well-meaning Geraldine, who sometimes reminded Claude of a conquering Viking Norsewoman—disguised in a purple pantsuit and Velcro sneakers—out of the picture long enough for Nick and Julie to say hi to each other. If only Julie would...

Unable to have children, spinster, Clementine Crowell, has immersed herself in the noble calling of placing street orphans in happy homes. After ten years riding the rails as an agent for the Gotham Foundling Asylum Society, Clementine is disheartened by evidence that many of the children she’s helped place are little more than slave labor. On a stopover in Nebraska, she’s pushed over the edge when farmers, Rollie Everhart and Boyd Hammond, get into a fistfight over who will get the older, stronger boy. Rollie came for an orphan boy to help him work his beleaguered farm. He needs help, ...

Be careful what you wish for—it could lead to murder. Kindergarten teacher, Gwen McPhail, is teaching children of former students with her eyes closed, wishing something would happen… Change roars in on a tidal wave when Vance Jones dies and names her his beneficiary. A stunned Gwen comes to Candle Island to check out her inheritance, but the clannish Islanders hate her guts, the widow tags her as “the other woman,” and the dead guy who left her the mansion was a creep. Gwen's up to her neck in inconsistencies and can’t swallow the “accidental death” line. Her rugged care ...

Is blood thicker than West Texas dust? Johnny's broken his sister's heart too many times to count, but with one tug of her heartstrings, CJ braves Texas heat in a last-ditch effort to save big brother. When Yankee stubbornness butts heads with cowboy arrogance, CJ has a better chance getting answers from her horse than the men on the ranch. She knows she's rubbing elbows with a murderer. She's in over her head, and the bodies are adding up. Will she be next?

Widow, Lydia Wainwright, travels west to Kansas to begin a new life as a frontier schoolmarm, but a train wreck derails her plans and leaves her burned and injured. Drew Spurlock races to the wreck and mistakes the delirious Lydia for his long-lost cousin, Minnie, a woman he contracted to care for his two love-starved children. Suffering from amnesia, Lydia is nursed back to health by Drew and the children. During her convalescence she strives to believe Drew’s version of her life, yet each time she faces her image in the mirror, she’s wracked with doubts about her true identity. As she...

Some years pass by us unnoticed. Others break us and nearly destroy us. But if we live through them, we’re changed forever. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could rewind a year of your life and choose a different path? Yesterday’s stains cling to our souls, and we’re never the same person we were a week ago. Susanna Jacobs knows this better than anyone. She’d give anything to change the past and obliterate the deep scar it left on her heart, but she knows she can’t go back, and she can’t run and hide from it anymore. Instead, she’s trying to look forward... but ...

What if you asked God to shake up your life and, when He did, you lost your friend, your marriage, and your faith? Susanna Jacobs longs for a change, but she can’t put her desire into words. According to her friends, she has it all: a devoted, if workaholic, husband, a beautiful independent-minded daughter, a successful business. But something’s missing. As Susanna struggles to find the missing piece, God dumps a thrown-away Bible into her lap. From the moment she touches the red cover, Susanna’s intrigued by the name Joanne written inside the flyleaf. As she searches for this mystery...

Welcome to Stellar’s Ford. Where faith and fear are at war. The line has been drawn in this forest, and only one will survive. Undercover forest ranger, Jackie Duncan, comes to the New England logging village of Stellar’s Ford to take down eco-terrorist, Rand Adams. But is Rand in town? Who’s igniting protests, spiking trees, torching saw mills, and nearly skewering her with a hunting arrow? Everywhere she turns she grabs at shadows. Creeped out by the notes of a faceless kidnapper who knows his every move, Robbie Adams comes to Stellar’s Ford desperately seeking his missing brother...

Welcome to Stellar’s Ford. In the fir-scented tranquility of this rural community, revenge and redemption wage a war of the heart. Will past and present wounds rip apart the fabric of a family and the serenity of a dying way of life? Brad Stanley is Stellar’s Ford born-and-bred. Years ago, his friends left for college and big careers. He stayed behind and ran Greenwood Timber, the family mill. Brad barely gave his solitary life a second thought until the day he discovered a sixteen-year-old daughter he never knew existed. Trying to be a dad while keeping the mill from going belly-up, is...

Carrie Allen is trying to keep the family farm and body-and-soul together on the rugged shores of Solitary Point. When her brother brings Johnowen Bradford to Pine Cone Knoll Farm with plans to sell their land, she sets her sights on getting rid of him. At odds from the first meeting, Carrie wants to believe the worst, but she’s no match for Johnowen’s battle-scarred heart and simple dreams. Yet the more she falls for him, the more she doubts his honesty and intentions. Where is his money coming from that promises to fulfill their dream of a life together? And why would a man who says ...

Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try, it’s never enough? Your heart seams are coming unglued by the relentless demands of a busy life. You resort to “if onlys” – if only I lost some weight – if only I could ditch this job– if only my husband, kids, friends, would really SEE me... Like every woman, Susanna Jacobs wrestles with the woman she is and the woman she longs to be. She’s beginning to realize Christ is the answer, but she doesn’t even know how to form the questions that will lead her to His purpose for her life. Nevertheless, she’s convinced that purpose...

Calvin Brody lost something in the war. His work on the trails of Acadia National Park brings him solace, but no answers. Then she comes in like a rip tide: Beatrix Paget, artist and owner of a summer mansion on Mount Desert Island. The uptown girl isn’t his type. Why can’t she see that? Because Trixie is too busy pestering him to be the subject of her newest painting. When his friend, Ralph, invites Calvin to a clambake, guess who’s hosting it? When Ralph asks Calvin to be his best man, guess who the maid of honor will be? Like it or not, Someone is intent on throwing the two of them...

When a health crisis and career problems threaten to strangle her, Kate Marchetti tries to hide out in the backwater of the rural community of Seven Pines. But she doesn't count on being the target of local interest, or the bull’s eye of the persistent country charm of Dr. Mick Blackburn. Everywhere Kate turns, she finds Mick, the pieces of the Hearts of Seven Pines quilt, and local Seven Piners trying to convince her Seven Pines is the place to find a home and healing. When the local tabloid, The Splinters, puts out a community call for matchmaking, and everyone from eight to eighty "...

On Candle Island there’s always a storm brewing. Gwen McPhail moves to the island, ready for a life change … but is she ready for murder? When her ne’er-do-well nephew, Nate, is accused of scuttling a lobster boat to kill his boss, the captain, so he can shack up with the merry widow, Gwen gets into tiger-aunt mode. With no body and no boat, and Nate in the hospital from exposure, there’s no evidence to go on. But Gwen’s a digger. She discovers a marriage on the rocks, a conniving wife, a jealous best friend, and a little girl and her grandmother suffocating in the scuffle. The ...

The fabric of Heather Fairchild’s love life unraveled, and now she’s holding on to real life by a single thread – the memory of her great-aunt and -uncle. She returns to the rural community of Seven Pines, hoping the old couple who once mended the heart of a lonely, sad five-year-old girl will again open their arms to a lonely, hurting young woman. The only catch -- this time she’s pregnant and unmarried. Heather’s content to keep a low profile, immersing herself in making a baby quilt, but Kevin Flynn, the accident-prone pastor, has other ideas. He’s the focus of a Seven Pines ...

Being a widow is hard enough, but Laura hates herself when she discovers she’s falling for her husband’s best friend, Rupert. She tries to stay true to Sam’s memory and keep her distance, but when her well-to-do mother-in-law travels to Maine to take Laura’s daughter off to Baltimore, she reluctantly turns to Rupert for help. Rupert is more than willing to help protect Laura’s interests, except for one little problem. Although he’s in love with her, he feels responsible for Sam’s death by drowning, and he hasn’t found the right way to tell Laura the truth about the accident....

Guthrie Allen has it all—a Model T truck, and a dream to travel cross-country footloose and fancy free. Trouble is, he hasn’t made it more than 350 miles from the family farm. Something keeps holding him back. When a heavy spring snowstorm strands him at a remote hill farm with a bunch of secretive strangers, Guthrie believes it’s meant to be - part of God’s plan for all of them. Zira Rutherford is stranded as well. She came to Stone Hill Farm as companion to her one-time friend, Maddie Fletcher, but she’s stuck between two worlds: the Rom culture of her childhood, and Maddie’s ...