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A sequel to the award-winning CHRISTMAS AT GREY SAGE. Maude and Silas, owners of Grey Sage, are busy making their guests’ experiences memorable ones. But a series of unsettling events has disturbed the serenity at the inn. Nestled in the aspen and pine-covered Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, Grey Sage is the ideal place for artists and writers. It’s late September, and Lily’s group of art students from Chicago has come for a retreat. Drake Dodson, a screenwriter, is there to write, and Dr. Boots Boone, a professor on sabbatical doing research in Native American culture and ...

Caroline Carlyle’s hopes and dreams were crushed when her fiancé died six weeks before their wedding. For years, she wrestled with aching loss and shattered faith, struggling to find the inspiration that once came so easily. Abandoning her half-finished piano compositions, Caroline traded her old ambitions for the comfort and familiarity of life as the town’s piano teacher.

Caroline Carlyle has rediscovered her heart's song and is realizing dreams she thought were beyond her grasp, including her musical debut at the university and a marriage proposal from Roderick Adair. After setting a wedding date, Caroline receives an unexpected gift that sends her to Guatemala to fulfill another life dream.

Nestled in the snow-covered Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, the Grey Sage Inn is the perfect place for an unlikely group of traveling companions to spend a couple of days on their Christmas trip. There’s plenty to see in historic Santa Fe during the day, and the inn’s owners, Maude and Silas, are happy to spend their evenings hosting this year’s guests from across the country.

The story continues with Caroline, Roderick and Gretchen as we journey with them to Austria, Gretchen's homeland. Secrets, intrigue, and romance--all in the enchanting setting along the Danube River.Assumed dead and a continent away, Gretchen’s wounded heart longs for home . . .With newly found freedom after thirty years, Gretchen and her granddaughter, Bella, a rare musical savant, are happy in their cottage in North Carolina, but the haunting shadows of Gretchen’s past cloud her days. A shameful night in a dark alley of an Austrian village decades ago left Gretchen with only one ...

When overwhelmed with growing up without Mama, will young Kate survive? As Kate’s 11th birthday approaches, she fears no one will remember her tradition of dressing up in her mother’s heirloom wedding gown for her birthday portrait. She grieves that their handprints won’t be on the back of the birthday photograph, and there’ll be no special letter from her mother to go in her Book of My Life this year. Precocious Kate gets a few more life’s-not-always-fair lessons as she struggles and finds the courage to ask the hard questions about life.

Caroline Carlyle has finally shed the heavy shackles of grief and rediscovered her heart's song. Between her return to making music and a budding relationship with the charming Roderick Adair, Caroline's life is full of fresh inspiration and hope. But just as she begins to experience this freedom, Caroline finds out one of her piano students is carrying a painful burden of her own. Bella, a prodigious musical savant living with autism, and her grandmother, Gretchen, share a dark, hidden past—more dangerous and complex that Caroline ever anticipated.

Will there be another Christmas miracle? In the coastal marshlands of Georgia where the intriguing Geechee people call home, Bar Haven is a quaint seaside community where everyone counts, and neighbors take care of each other. The town folks have been busy for months with plans and preparations for Bar Haven’s legendary Christmas festivities. Everything is set. Almost everything . . . The O’Hara family, third-generation residents of a sprawling seaside home, are all wrapped up in Bar Haven’s Christmas celebrations. But in preparing their home for Christmas, Jillian O’Hara finds a ...

Are you aware that God is already communicating with you? Or do you just wonder if God is even present in the world as He was in Bible times? Is it possible that God is present and active in your life and you don't recognize Him? God created you for relationship, and He wants to communicate with you. Maybe it’s time to stop waiting for God to show up and begin to experience His presence in the ordinary by taking a second look. Sacred Sense is a collection of stories and vignettes from Phyllis’s life where she took a second look and experienced the Sacred. Through these reflections and ...

Caroline Carlyle has finally shed the heavy shackles of grief and rediscovered her heart’s song. Between her return to making music and a budding relationship with the charming Roderick Adair, Caroline’s life is full of fresh inspiration and hope. But just as she begins to experience this freedom, Caroline discovers one of her piano students is carrying a painful burden of her own. Bella, a prodigious musical savant living with autism, and her grandmother, Gretchen, share a dark, hidden past—more dangerous and complex than Caroline ever anticipated. The more Caroline uncovers, the ...

Do you ever wonder if God is there - really there? Do you ever wish God would show up and speak to you like he did to Moses or Mary? Is it possible that God is present and active in your life, and you don’t recognize him? God shows up, but sometimes he shows up in unexpected places and in unexpected ways. God is present in the miraculous, and he is present in the ordinary. Through these vignettes and scripture readings, you will become more aware of his activity in your everyday-walking-around life.

The sounds of Christmases past echo through a silent house.... Everyone in town knows Emerald Crest, the green granite mansion atop the highest hill: The legendary, lavish Christmas festivities that used to light up the nights - and the silence that followed when the parties abruptly stopped many years ago. And everyone has heard whispers about the reclusive, mysterious master of the manor, Henry Lafferty the Second.

Will springtime ever come? For nearly seven years, Caroline had settled for a small-town, simple life as a single woman and Moss Point’s music teacher. But when Gretchen Silva, grandmother of a rare musical savant, and Roderick Adair, an international business tycoon, stepped into Caroline’s life, her real music returned and her monotonal gray life flashed with color. Press conferences. Romance. Transcontinental travel. A major move. A life-threatening kidnapping. And the marriage of her dreams. No longer rebounding from a cascade of crises, Caroline should be settling into life as ...

What could threaten the perfect Christmas wedding? With a rare pink diamond and pearl engagement ring on her finger, Caroline Carlyle's hopes for love and a future with Roderick Adair fill her heart. It was one year ago, under a December Kentucky moon, they first declared their love for each other. And now a year later, they will celebrate their love surrounded by family and close friends with a Christmas wedding at Rockwater. But Caroline wonders if there will be a wedding when she receives a strange package and a threatening anonymous letter only days before their wedding. Roderick is ...

What life-altering surprises will make this Christmas the one Kate would never forget? Young Kate’s life had been a series of painful adjustments following the heartbreaking death of her mother. Her memories of Christmastime and its traditions brought comfort, but all that changed when Kate’s father married Evie, who came with her own ideas about celebrating Christmas. Granny Grace had always been there to help carry on the sacred family traditions, but she decided to leave. Grappling with her anger and disappointment, Kate had no idea the surprises this Christmas would bring. The ...

When a young patient grieving the death of her sister recognizes the man in a portrait hanging in her office, Dr. Kate Harding, a licensed clinician, is startled, but not entirely surprised. The face in the painting takes her back 20 years to snow-covered Cedar Falls, Kentucky, and to her first Christmas without her mother.

American architect Jordan Mayfair travels to Provence with visions of Roman ruins bathed in magical Provençal light‚ exquisite foods and wines‚ and - possibly - an alluring Frenchmen. She will experience all she imagined‚ but she never expected to be chased across the French countryside for an Elvis recording. Danger follows her to the village of Fontvieille‚ where the colorful inhabitants are in a frenzy over missing Van Gogh sketches.