Residence-hall director is the ideal job for April Davis: She's working on her doctorate, and supervising a dorm full of college girls gives her plenty of time for research. But when the wealthy and handsome Taylor Delderfield strolls into her li...
Petite, red-haired Abby Kane is perfectly satisfied with her life in Abilene, Texas. She relishes her work at the tourist bureau, lives close to her family, and enjoys an active social life. But Abby is caught in a stampede of emotions when Abilen...
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ginny Johnson meets life with energy and enthusiasm. But she is also learning that being the daughter of the governor of Kentucky has its disadvantages. When she discovers that her boyfriend, Frank, is interested in ...
Julie Russell holds athletes in contempt. Not only does she think they are overrated, but she's spent her life having her academic achievements overshadowed by the athletic accomplishments of her sister and brothers. As a teacher, Julie has seen spor...
Andrea Cooper learned that lesson well when, as a child, she watched her parents' painful divorce. Now twenty-six she is comfortable with her life as a high school history teacher, president of the local historical preservation society, and active ch...
TV news achor Kate Malone actually heard bells when she first saw Tyler Sinclair. Okay, so they were the church bells that played every day at the same time. But couldn't they be a sign that it was time to stop climbing the ladder of success to bigge...
"Summerfolk and year-rounders don't mix." That's what Callie Duncan's grandma says, but Callie believes differntly. Years ago Morgan Rutherford, known to most folks as Trey, the country western star, made a North Carolina mountain girl's wildest drea...
Callie and Morgan Rutherford's courtship and marriage is a dream come true. They have everything two people could ever hope to attain...in short, life is good. Everything turns upside-down, however, when a freak accident sends Morgan to the hospit...
To her friends, Dr. Sarah Madison is practically married to her career as a successful researcher at a Kansas City children's hospital, on her way to find a cure for leukemia. She's too serious, too intimidating to men, and she certainly doesn't know...
When country singer Anita Jane Wells fakes an illness to bring her friend to Branson, Missouri, for Christmas, she has the best intentions. Lyndsay shouldn't spend another holiday alone. Posing as Anita's "doctor," handsome Will Hamilton arrives at t...
Jennifer Faucett is dwelling. in the past, not dreaming of the future, as she prepares to spend one last Christmas in the home of her recently deceased grandmother. Next door, Mike Shannon. now a successful novelist, has come seeking peace and quiet ...
Watch love bloom in a church, an office building, a retirement home, and a library in this all-new collection of contemporary inspirational romances. Contains 'Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace,' by Veda Boyd Jones; 'Once Upon A Dream,' by Sally L...
In the early nineteenth-century, thirteen-year-old Betsy Miller and her pesky eleven-year-old cousin, George Lankford, travel with their parents from Boston to their new home in Cincinnati and have many adventures on the way....
History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that ...
As World War II comes to an end, Eddie Harrington develops polio, and he and his family worry about their brother, Steve, caught in the Battle of the Bulge, and their sister Alice's fiance, missing in the Pacific, and welcome back their friends, the ...
Christmas is a time for giving, and nothing bonds two hearts together like a gift given in love. Enjoy four brand-new inspirational novellas about modern couples who discover love and seal it with a gift....
Time Period: 1808 Thirteen-year-old Betsy Miller is shocked when her parents decide to move from their home in Boston to the rugged frontier city of Cincinnati. They'll take a dangerous, weeks-long journey by boat down the Ohio River. If ...
Time Period: 1832 Twelve-year-old Emma Farley has a secret hope-but in 1832, in the rough frontier city of Cincinnati, will she ever be able to live her dream? The odds are against her, considering society's views of "women's work," as wel...
Time Period: 1903 When her parents died, young Maureen O'Callaghan was sent from Ireland to the United States to begin a new life in the Stevenson family. At age eleven, she's ready to become a U.S. citizen-just as soon as she can solve th...
Callie's grandmother taught her to respect her Carolina mountain upbringing based on faith and love. But awestruck by a benefactor who is also one of Nashville's rising stars, Callie struggles between old teachings and new yearnings. Can she trust he...
Time Period: July 1944 - Thanksgiving 1945 As the Second World War grinds on, eleven-year-old Laura Edwards hopes and prays for an American victory. Inside her, though, another battle is raging: Originally suspicious and resentful of a Ja...
Time Period: Begins 1838 In 1838, Nellie Starr, a young Cherokee girl, is caught in the political upheaval of America's westward expansion. Forced by U.S. soldiers to leave their home in Tennessee, Nellie, her family, and thousands of oth...
*Joe's Ghost took second place in Best Book category in Missouri Writers' Guild annual contest, April 2012. Joe Murray had a life in California for thirty years--in films. Oh, he was never the hero, but he had steady work as the...
A Peaceful Sail Over a Drowned Town?--Melina Howard wasn’t looking for romance. She was looking for someone to crew in a sailboat regatta, and she thought she had a ringer in former sailing instructor Blake Allen. It should have been a simple after...
It is the luckiest day of his life! Sixth grader Sam Morgan buys a shoebox full of baseball cards at a garage sale and discovers some very valuable cards. But he soon finds the special cards are counterfeit. Sam and his neighborhood friends, Matt ...
In this chapter book for young readers, Jake, a 3-foot black snake, is accidentally trapped inside Ken Baker’s house and tries for a couple weeks to get out. Several times he narrowly avoids detection by Ken’s family. Jake likes chocolate (licked...
Sam Morgan thinks the sixth grade social studies assignment sounds like fun -- find out something that happened on the day he was born and interview three people about the event. On Sam’s birthday, almost twelve years ago on Halloween, the Big Spri...
Do you long for the thrilling moment when you meet a stranger and feel the earth move or the sparks fly? These 42 romantic first meetings capture those moments and remind you that romance may be just around the next corner....
A Country Music Star and a Local Girl--Years ago singing star Trey, aka Morgan P. Rutherford III, paid for Blue Ridge Mountain teenager Callie Duncan’s college education. At her graduation, he sees Callie’s metamorphosis, and now he’s back at h...
All he wants is to be left alone at holiday time, but Clay Stevenson's quest for solitude in the old mountain cabin ends when Elaine Montana's van loaded with junior high choir girls slides into a ditch on the old mountain road. Can the unexpected be...