On the surface, second-grade teacher Caroline Blake seems as levelheaded as they come; no one would guess that her bedroom is done in lace and scattered with romance novels. The secret is out, however, when Caroline bids over one hundred dollars at a...
Skye Cameron was a million miles away from Mary Ann Cameron, the awkward, frumpy girl she'd once been. Now she was an important literary agent -- tall, exotic, polished and very sure of herself. So how was it that an ordinary fourth-grade teacher and...
For Sharon Turner, her big family is plenty of trouble, a lot of fun, and a tremendous comfort, especially when the man of her dreams hardly notices her. Tanner Williams certainly knows she exists--she did work for him for four long years--but now th...
Amanda Kirk is getting paid to have fun--she has just landed her dream job as a toy designer for KayDon Toys. Her new boss, Cade Donovan, seems to like her ideas for the fortress adventure set, but that's about all he likes. The employees call hi...
A BRAND NEW BALL GAME Alex Langdon had been in St. Louis for the last six months. Meg Shepherd had seen him on the local news and read his popular sports column in the paper. Now Meg had to venture into Busch Stadium if she wanted to enlist one of...
What Miranda Wants for Christmas: A Miracle The last thing Miranda Dalton needed under her Christmas tree was a man. But that's what she got when a handsome drifter plowed into her front yard. Jared Tarkett was the most intriguing guy to hit Redbud ...
ONCE UPON A TIME in the land of Missouri, there was a little boy named Jory. He loved his daddy, but something was missing: a mommy. So Jory set out to find one. THE PRINCE WAS RELUCTANT Matt wasn't looking for happily ever after--he was...
Nothing prepared Cody for Bree's arrival -- but now she's missing, and nothing seems right without her. Bree Trehearn discovered computer files she wasn't supposed to see. Now she's on the run, hiding from a criminal with murder on his mind. Whe...
Adventure is what's missing in her life, decides competent, no-nonsense Lacey Robbins. But Jack Dalton, the attractive man she literally runs into at the skating rink, isn't exactly what she had in mind. Neither is using her accounting skills to unta...
When Carl Brenner had saved a struggling widow and her small children from spending Christmas in a cold, ramshackle farmhouse, he'd never realized how his lonely life would be forever changed. Then storekeeper might have given Grace Mallory a fresh s...
Lori Harper was on her own. Recently widowed with a young son to raise and a baby on the way, she had no one she could rely on. And when she went into labor in her isolated home with no way to call for help, she prayed for a miracle. . . Delivering...
WOULD THE FALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN? After 16 years of wedded bliss, Claire Jericho yearned to be more than just a housewife. God meant her to do something meaningful -- but what? When a ministry to help unfortunate women started up at church, Clai...
Laurel Harrison longed to return to Missouri, and when her sheriff father fell ill it seemed to Laurel to be a message from above telling her to leave California behind. And she hoped that by moving back she would finally find a home for her restless...
UNEXPECTED LOVE When a simple game of volleyball lands Carrie Collins in the emergency room, the feisty redhead is determined not to let a broken wrist interfere with her active life. Despite what the oh-so-serious but very handsome Dr. Rafe O'Con...
Ever since Holly Douglas's husband had been killed, she and her twin sons had lived on borrowed time. Now her husband's killer was back on the streets -- and investigator Alex Wilkins was the only man she could count on to protect her. Accustomed to ...
IT'S A WHITE CHRISTMAS...AND DANGER IS EVERYWHERE! Spending Christmas Eve with her handsome boss in a cabin while a stalker threatens is not the way Holly Vance had planned to celebrate this year -- she'd been counting on dinner with her extended fa...
I, Gracie Lee Harris, being of (mostly) sound mind and (slightly chubby) body, do hereby declare I had nothing to do with the murder of my two-timing, con man husband. But I know three women who could have killed Dennis: his devoted but delusional mo...
My new job: "Gracie Lee Harris, dead body finder." First it was my con man husband. Now it's Frank, the no-good contractor renovating my apartment. I think Ray -- uh, Detective Fernandez -- is starting to wonder about me, since I'm always sticking my...
This has been a year of family turmoil--and it's only June! Life hasn't been the same since I learned my long-presumed-dead mother is actually alive, and then my father was arrested for murder. I'm so thankful that Reverend Gregory Brown is here. My ...
I seem to be gathering quite a collection of murder victims: first my husband, then my contractor. And now my ex-husband's fiancee has turned up dead. But I, Gracie Lee Harris, am on the job--much to the dismay of my boyfriend, homicide detective...
A faded childhood photograph of the Barker girls was the only clue found at a crime scene. But it didn't explain who'd want Jessie Barker's sister dead. The snapshot brought back memories of another tragedy, shrouded in mystery, that left the Barker ...
PIECING TOGETHER A CRIME, BONE BY BONE... Forensic specialist Kyra Elliott faces the challenge of her career. From scattered skeletal remains she must identify a serial killer who's gotten away with murder, and his young victims. Help comes in the t...