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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?

Cataclysmic life change. For A Season – Days of Shadow focuses on not just coping with a devastating loss, but taking the time, pacing ourselves with halting steps to God’s sometimes-slow journey as He reveals His plan and place for us. We’re all in the process of becoming something more, and God uses the seasons in our lives to enable us to become more like Jesus

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

They say life’s a journey -- peaks and valleys, sunshine and shadow. What they don’t tell you is the climb never ends; there’s always another step, another trail, another peak. Darby Irish isn’t so sure of that. Her ex has moved on to someone new, a prettier (of course) and more petite (ugh) blond, and given Darby her walking papers on romance and her job. The problem is, she doesn’t know where to walk after five years of career and relationship stagnation. Keaton Atticus Cooper knows all about the never-ending climb. He’s been running down every trail and up every mountain ...

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....

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 ...

You're an ordinary Jane Doe with an ordinary life -- a little house with a roof that leaks only when it rains, a car with more Bondo® than body, and a job with dear friends who are ready to say good-bye to this life. But to someone who was dumped on the steps of the Home for Lost Children as a newborn and who’s always carried the forgettable name of Jane Doe, you know you've got it good. In fact, you've got everything you've ever wanted ... except a real family. God delivers on the desires of your heart with a tough-nut orphan who needs a home, an octogenarian stripped of his precious ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 "...