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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Welcome to Stellar’s Ford. In the shadows of these forests, a malevolent presence lurks. Will the innocent survive, or will the guilty hide their dark crimes forever in the wild mountain ravines? Ex-bad-boy, Rand Adams, is serious about his new faith, and about opening a wilderness camp for troubled teens. But he’s burned too many bridges. One of them is Molly Stuart, his former-best-friend’s wife. Molly blames Rand for her husband’s death, and for skipping out on the funeral. When her son lies about hanging out with a stranger, Molly has no choice but to keep the potential runaway ...

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 ...

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. 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...

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....

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...

In depression era Mercy’s Gate, Martin is struggling to keep it together for his students, his business, and his town. But there are no prospects for Christmas and no cheer in a small town dying from the inside out - until Ollie and her mysterious “Uncle Rasper” jump off a passing freight train and become squatters in Martin’s potato barn. Are these two bums con artists out to fleece the good people of what little they have left? Or are they the spark this small town needs to rekindle the spirit of Christmas? Ollie’s just passing through. Mercy’s Gate’s one Main Street is no ...

Hansel and Gretel Sweetser live a happy life, except for that unfortunate time of incarceration and near-ingestion in the witch’s gingerbread house. But that was twenty years ago, and no one believes them anyway. Now they run the successful H & G Bakery. Life is sweet for the Sweetser brother and sister, until Hansel gets ensnared and engaged to Sandra. It’s not that Gretel has anything against her future sister-in-law, except that she burns everything she bakes, she hates Gretel, and she’s got Hansel wrapped around her little finger. Once they’re married, will history repeat itself...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

What do you do when you discover the man you thought you knew, the lover you’ve called husband and best friend for twenty-two years, is suddenly a stranger? Every day Susanna Jacobs withdraws a little more from her one-time soul mate. Is it his frustration over her rocky mentorship of their newest employee that has caused the rift between them? Or is it his angry and arrogant unbelief that’s led him to ridicule Susanna’s new-found faith? Her mission to return a Bible to a woman who wants nothing to do with her and her faith, has Susanna questioning everything she believed was true. ...

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 ...