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1) Faith
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Best-selling author Lori Copeland kicks off this historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872. When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that they need to take drastic action to survive. Each answers a newspaper ad soliciting Christian brides. Faith goes to Texas, where her intended, a well-to-do rancher named Nicholas Shepherd, seems to be having second thoughts. While...
2) Prairie fire
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Jack Cornwall has lost everything he's ever fought for, everything he's ever loved. He's lost his home, the Confederacy and its goal for a new and vital nation, and now his little nephew, Chipper.
4) Hope
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Mail-order-bride, Hope Kallahan is not amused when her stagecoach is waylaid by a bunch of bumbling outlaws. The feisty beauty is puzzled by the oddball in the group--the disarmingly kind Grunt Lawson. She doesn't know that Grunt is really Dan Sullivan, the government agent sent to infiltrate the gang on what was supposed to be his last assignment. Together, Hope and Dan learn that no matter what happens, God works everything together into a plan...
5) June
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"Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. She soon learns that not everyone approves of her fiance's vision for an elaborate tabernacle that would befit God's glory--not even his best friend, Parker Sentell. The surly lumberjack favors supporting the local orphanage, and while caring for the orphans...
7) Glory
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A sheltered mountain girl, Glory is forced to build a life on her own after her Poppy dies. With a bagful of gold and no change of clothes, she sets out in search of a new life. Far too naive for the cold world before her, she ends up on the run from a greedy uncle who wants her gold-and who will kill her to get it. She manages to latch on to a wagonneer named Jackson and a group of teenage mail order brides. In her travels and adventures, Glory grows...
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A cup of tea and a few quiet moments are all you need to enjoy these tasty, calorie-free morsels from three beloved authors. And each story is followed by the author's favorite chocolate recipe! Valentine's Day, a shocking business failure, and a box of chocolates containing a sweepstakes ticket set the stage for Terri Blackstock's novella For Love of Money. Two stories of sweet, unexpected love from Elizabeth White and Ranee McCollum complete the...
11) Elena's song
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Peggy Stoks' poignant fiction has found a cherished place in the hearts of readers everywhere. In Elena's Song, the third book of Stoks' Abounding Love series, Elena Breen is a singer who's been unfairly exploited. Her voice ravaged, her career crippled too soon by the man who made her a celebrity, Elena fears the future-and seems unable to shake the grip of the past. But God has a plan for everyone, and Jesse Golden might just be the man to usher...
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When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to restore her sister's old house. As they work side by side, the promise of love blooms again.
15) Ruth
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"Spunky, young Ruth Priggish is on the run from a seventy-year-old suitor. Faced with the prospect of marriage to the persistent old codger, Ruth throws caution to the wind and decides to head for Wyoming Territory, where freedom and independence await. Her only hope is to seek help from an unwilling protector: Dylan McCall. U.S. Marshal Dylan McCall is trying desperately to get to Wyoming before winter sets in. But when he finds himself saddled with...
17) Catching Katie
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Katie Jones is committed to fighting for the cause of women's suffrage. She has no time for romance, especially not with her best friend Ben Rafferty. But when her column in Ben's newspaper stirs things up, sparks begin to fly. He's set on winning her over, but she's just as determined to stay true to her 1916 feminist ideals. With such strong obstacles in the way, their relationship can't possibly progress. Unless somehow love finds a way...
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2004 Christy Award finalist!
God has answered Mona Reynolds's prayers and given her the opportunity of a lifetime: she is about to open her own bookstore-coffee shop, the Footstep of Heaven. Now Mona has no time for love and no hope that a man can ever be the hero of her dreams. But when she hires mysterious drifter Joe Michaels to be her handyman, she discovers that it isn't only in fairy tales that people live "happily ever after."
God has answered Mona Reynolds's prayers and given her the opportunity of a lifetime: she is about to open her own bookstore-coffee shop, the Footstep of Heaven. Now Mona has no time for love and no hope that a man can ever be the hero of her dreams. But when she hires mysterious drifter Joe Michaels to be her handyman, she discovers that it isn't only in fairy tales that people live "happily ever after."