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Join the journey as one word etched in Latin on an ancient bronze bottle travels through the centuries to reach five young women who are struggling to maintain their faith in God and love. An Irish princess, a Scottish story weaver, a Post-Colonial nurse, a cotton mill worker, and a maid who nearly drowned each receive a message from the bottle just when they need their hope restored. But will the bottle also bring them each to a man whose love will endure? [...]
In The Crimson Path of Honor, the Civil War is over, and a violent period known as the Indian Wars is erupting. Ignoring the danger, a feisty young woman from Boston rebels against her tyrannical fatherโs plans to marry her off to a family friend, and she seizes an opportunity to go west to teach.
Harry Houdniโs one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own. Boston, 1926. Jenny โWrenโ Lockhart is a bold eccentricโeven for a female vaudevillian.
When famine visits Bethlehem, some hold out hope for rain, while Naomi and her family make a long journey to Moab in search of greener pastures. The harvest there is plentiful, and for a time it appears the Lord is blessing them.
Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of running a ranch on her own, Laurel Tracey decides to hire a convictโa man whoโs just scary enough to take care of squatters and just desperate enough to agree to a one year post.
In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmotherโs millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister. Several years earlier, a terrible tragedy reshaped their family, shattering an idyllic life and their future prospects.
A master violinist trained in Vienna, Rebekah Carrington manages to wheedle her way into an audition with the maestro at the newly-formed Nashville Philharmonic.
If you love stories by Lori Benton or Laura Frantz, you need to read the Creek Country Saga, including book 2, The Sacred Writings by April W. Gardner!
Fans of Regency romance rejoice, it's time to return to Hawthorne House! I'm delighted to share my thoughts on An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi Ann Hunter.
After being imprisoned and branded for the death of her client, twenty-five-year-old midwife Julianne Chevalier trades her life sentence for exile to the fledgling 1720s French colony of Louisiana, where she hopes to be reunited with her brother, serving there as a soldier.
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