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Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard sales....
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Sometimes the only way to outsmart a scandal is to find a crown big enough to silence it
Muriel Beau, country baker turned heiress, can't stop instigating outrage. She discards two arranged engagements, then further antagonizes Kent society by publicly proposing to a baron at a ball. His rejection leaves her with no choice but to flee to the city and to secure a coronet so splendid that her peers will forget her debacles. The glitter of the London...
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Dear Reader,
My name is Isabelle Louisa Edgewood-Izzy, for short. I live by blue-tinted mountains, where I find contentment in fresh air and books. Oh, and coffee and tea, of course. And occasionally in being accosted by the love of my family. (You'll understand my verb choice in the phrase later.) I dream of opening my own bookstore, but my life, particularly my romantic history, has not been the stuff of fairy tales. Which is probably why my pregnant,...
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Young widow Charlotte Grey faces an uncertain future... until a chance encounter with her first love gives her heart a second chance in this Regency romance set on the Yorkshire Moors.
England, 1817, Charlotte Grey thought she had seen the last of Anthony Welbourne. Knowing her father would never consent to his only daughter marrying a man he deemed beneath their family's station, Charlotte bid her final farewell to Anthony and vowed to never turn...
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The Life and Travels of Saint Cuthwin is a story of deep love and desperate survival in 11th Century England, a story told by a man named Cuthwin, born a peasant, who faced horror after horror in order to live for 85 years, at which time he told his story to a young monk who wrote it down. He wanted to tell his story, warts and all, since he had been informed that the Church was considering naming him as a Saint, an honor, which Cuthwin absolutely...
6) Buy A Cowboy
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Could God actually want a woman to buy a cowboy? The only way Bonnie Gibbs can escape her devious ex-husband is to remarry and provide a better future for her children. With the promise of half ownership in a ranch, she takes a chance on a broken rodeo cowboy and transplants her family from Florida to Wyoming. Baya McKnight agrees to marry the prissy woman who owns the land he wants, but he's overwhelmed when faced with children and a stubborn wife's...
7) Break of Day
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Annie Pederson's happily ever after is finally within sight... If she can stay alive long enough to grasp it.
Law enforcement officer Annie Pederson's life has been rocked by tragedy, but things finally seem to be heading in the right direction. Her relationship with the love of her life, who's also the biological father of her precious daughter, has never been better, and it looks like an engagement ring is in Annie's future. She's also slowly building...
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Everyone thinks Poppy Kyle is naturally happy and positive. But it took a major tragedy in her life for her to overcome her natural negative tendencies and develop a happiness attitude. She will not allow the surly West Barclay to steal her joy.
After West Barclay lost his parents in a car accident, he spent some time in foster care. Unfortunately, he fell in with the wrong crowd and saw just how rotten life can be. He still carries the scars. Poppy,...
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She's losing her house. He never had one. A marriage would give them a house to share, but could they learn to love each other and make their house into a home?
Natalie Moody's house has been condemned and she has two weeks left to move out. When a friend at church offers to let her stay at his brother's farmhouse while he's out on assignment for two months, she jumps at the chance.
Denver Barclay bought a farm, but he can't seem to get himself...
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Burgundy Gannon went to Hollywood to make it big. That was a bust.
Crew Pittman was one of the world's top underwater welders. Until a freak accident left him permanently unable to work.
When Burgundy shows up at Crew's new home to be a caretaker to the elderly woman who won't leave, it seems like three unlikely people are trapped unwillingly together.
But late night rides from a secret Santa and an infusion of the Christmas season of love and...
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What would happen if you found out someone has been impersonating you? Sara Murray had never met her mother's parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara can't understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the imposter. Secrets and...
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A classic series that has inspired millions of readers worldwide! The first book in the beloved Mark of the Lion series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind brings readers back to the first century and introduces them to a character they will never forget-Hadassah. While wealthy Roman citizens indulge their every whim, Jews and barbarians are bought and sold as slaves and gladiators in the bloodthirsty arena....
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In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice. From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called "my whole world." When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis-known as Jack-she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything...
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In 1893, on the eve of the great race for land, Benjamin David prays for God to guide him to his Promised Land. Finding property and preaching to the lost are his only ways of honoring his deceased fiancée. He hasn't counted on Elmer (Elsie) Smith claiming the same plot and refusing to leave. Not only is she a burr in his side, but she is full of the homesteading know-how he is sadly lacking.
Obtaining a claim in the Cherokee Strip Land Run is...
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The third and final book in the Amish of Summer Grove series, from The New York Times and CBA best-selling novelist Cindy Woodsmall, brings an Old Order Amish young woman and an English woman who were switched at birth full circle, as they decide where their futures will lie. After several months living out in the world with her birth family, Ariana Brenneman is back living in the Old Amish community that she grew up in. The shock of discovering she...
16) Topaz Heat
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The very moment Derrick meets Sarah, he realizes he has a reason to live. Sarah sees only an unshaven tough kid covered with tattoos and shuts down every advance. Sarah Thomas has no memory of her broken young life leading up to the tragic murder of her mother. Her memory begins the morning she wakes in the home of her loving adoptive parents. She doesn't even know her sisters exist until her 15th year. She learns to love her siblings, but always...
17) Country Romance
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Two lonely strangers, a fatherless child, and a snow storm.
Recipe for romance?
If Adele Marten's troubled childhood taught her anything, it was that family is everything. So when the time comes to keep a promise she made to her dying friend, she knew she would do whatever it takes to reunite a father and son...who have never met. Even risk her fragile heart.
Hard-working single dad, Wyatt Sutton had his hands full raising twin girls and running...
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There is a new boss in the house. The Amish Baker sisters have a new stepfather and a new stepsister. What will the girls do when they learn of their new rules? When the sisters show their displeasure in their new living arrangements, is the pressure too much for their mother? In the midst of the upheavals, what becomes of the apple orchard? Is the orchard lost to Florence forever? The Amish Stepfather is lively, heart-warming, filled with love, and...
19) Virginia
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The White Doe of the Outer Banks Grows into Womanhood
Return to the "what if" questions surrounding the Lost Colony and explore the possible fate of Virginia Dare--the first English child born in the New World. What happened to her after her grandfather John White returned to England and the colony he established disappeared into the mists of time? Legends abound, but she was indeed a real girl who, if she survived to adulthood, must have also...
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Two killers, two detectives, and a menace called "The Black Midnight" may be the death of both of them. Three years before Jack the Ripper began his murderous spree on the streets of London, women were dying in their beds as The Midnight Assassin terrorized the citizens of Austin, Texas. Now, with suspicion falling on Her Majesty's family and Scotland Yard at a loss as to who the Ripper might be, Queen Victoria summons her great-granddaughter Alice...
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