In Long Island and New York City during the prosperous 1970s, life was good. It was a time of plenty-plenty of jobs, plenty of money, plenty of hope for all, and everything seemed right with the world. For Anna Maria Bellone, a vibrant college graduate from Long Island, it was also a time to begin her career with a prominent NYC insurance firm. It was not long before she met the captivating Andrew Moore, who quickly swept her into his life and his soul. They enjoyed everything their beautiful city had to offer-but the secrets he held close and the events of one fateful evening shook their relationship almost beyond repair. Was it possible that all they had shared and built together could be so easily destroyed in a matter of moments? Could romance end so swiftly, leaving only broken lives and bittersweet memories behind? Anna relied on her strength and the love that was born below the shadows of the Manhattan skyline. She prayed that her faith would help Andrew heal emotionally while she physically recovered from the night that forever changed them. But Andrew had a different idea. To save her further misery, he was convinced that if he put half a country between them, his plan would be successful. Could their love overcome the circumstances that tried to separate them? Was it possible for a love founded in the shadows to blossom in the sunshine of happily ever after?

On the Oregon Trail in the spring of 1883, Jenny Supples, a lonely and scared little girl, had no choice but to trust her life with a man she didn't know. Jeremiah "Jerry" Bowles had joined her wagon train just two days before an Indian attack. Only Jenny and Jerry survived. Jenny suddenly had to make a major decision to either return to her home state of West Virginia or to continue westward with a twenty-two year old stranger. Jerry was drifting with the wind and volunteered to escort her in either direction. Her pioneer spirit and adventurous heart outvoted the safer return back east. Along the way, Jenny quickly matured as she faced responsibilities not intended for a young girl. The journey was difficult but the excitement of what was around the next bend and over the next hill compensated for each dusty mile. When she first saw the treeless prairie, stretching to an arched sky ablaze with a glorious sunset, she forgot to breathe. Travel with young Jenny as she survives the dangers and hardships of the Oregon Trail. Rejoice with her when she finds love during the pioneering days of the Old West.

"A beautiful maiden, longing for love ..."

Surrounded by happily married friends, twenty-year-old Elizabeth Hollingberry longs to find a loving husband of her own. Yet no man has been worthy of her hand, and her father has refused every potential suitor. Now, the King of England himself, Henry VIII, is interested in her marital status. "An ambitious man loyal to the king ..."

Gabriel Athelston has sacrificed much to become one of King Henry's most trusted men. His new commission will send him to Piffenview, a castle bordering England and Scotland, to protect the king's borders. But when the king orders him to marry Elizabeth Hollingberry and take her with him, Gabriel silently curses his bad luck. The last thing he wants-or needs-is a wife. "A passion they've never known ..."

Elizabeth, determined to escape her situation and her dismal future, runs away from her father's home, further cementing Gabriel's reluctance to marry. When the two finally meet, the attraction between them is unmistakable, and Elizabeth realizes this man may be the answer to her prayers. But dangerous forces are at work. When Elizabeth is poisoned and barely escapes with her life, Gabriel begins to uncover a deadly plot that could destroy his chance of happiness with a woman he can no longer live without.

"I am drawn to the concept of the Heldin family and your main character, Hilda, as she moves through life and faces different questions and experiences."
-Amy Gingerich, Editorial Director, "The Herald Press"

In the early 1900s, fourteen-year-old Hilda Heldin offers God a promise-she will give her heart to Jesus if He heals her ailing mother. But God does not make bargains.

Not long after Hilda's mother dies, her father, a Mennonite preacher and Minnesota farmer prays for a new wife. Worried that his three children need a mother, he pens a letter to Ukrainian schoolteacher Leah Loewen, a spinster he knows. Before long, they are married-even as Hilda and her younger sister still struggle with their grief. Hilda must meet the challenges of her Mennonite faith and life on the prairie, she finds the strength to endure weather catastrophes, world wars, birth, and death-all while maturing into adulthood and discovering her true identity.

"Heldin" tells an unforgettable tale of a brave woman's compelling, coming-of-age journey as she tries to come to terms with the faith that governs her life.

In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide . . . In 1929, life for ten-year-old Mattie Price, born and raised in the back streets of Sheffield, is tough. With a petty thief for a father and a mother who turns to the bottle to cope with her husband's brutish ways, it is left to the young girl and her brother, Joe, to feed and care for their three younger siblings. But Mattie has others rooting for her too. The Spencer family, who live at the top of the same street, and Mattie's teachers recognize that the girl is clever beyond her years and they, and Joe, are determined that she shall have the opportunity in life she deserves. Victoria Hamilton, living in the opulence of London's Kensington, has all the material possessions that a young girl could want. But her mother, Grace, a widow from the Great War, is cold and distant, making no secret of the fact that she never wanted a child. Grace lives her life in the social whirl of upper-class society, leaving Victoria in the care of her governess and the servants. At eleven years old, Victoria is sent to boarding school where, for the first time in her young life, she is able to make friends of her own age. Mattie and Victoria are both set on a path that will bring them together at Bletchley Park in May 1940. An unlikely friendship between the two young women is born and together they will face the rest of the war keeping the nation's secrets and helping to win the fight. They can tell no one, not even their families, about their work or even where they are. But keeping secrets is second nature to both of them . . .

Bouncing along on the hard wagon seat, Lacey is veraciously giddy as she and her Uncle Robert travel to London for new farm machinery. After all, Leicester, the small farming community of her birth, is a completely different world. London in the 1790s awakens Lacey's senses, her graceful deportment, her unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and her fascination with fashions. When Robert thwarts a ruffian stealing a necklace from the Duchess of Richmond, Lacey plunges into the world of London's aristocracy, acutely aware, though, that she must return to the farm. Months later, Lacey returns to London in a posh coach when the Duchess offers to educate Lacey and develop her talents as a seamstress. Despite her love for her family, Lacey's heart longs to go. As Lacey settles in, she encounters those who snub her humble background. Determined to prove she can change the fashion world, Lacey becomes a top courtier. Finally successful, she struggles with the horrific war that's raging and her conflicting feelings for the brutally handsome Charles and the warm Edmund. "Lacey" provides a fascinating peek into late eighteenth-century England, when fashion was coming into its own. Wrap yourself in the rich tapestry of Lacey's story from beginning to end

Criminals usually commit their crimes which generate madness around midnight while innocent people are fast asleep in their beds. It was almost midnight when Erin Andrews witnessed a drug exchange between two boats at Folly Beach near Charleston, S.C. Also that same night Erin was caught spying on two Coast Guard officers as they filmed the actual drug exchange before arresting the crooks involved.

It was almost midnight when Jess Reynolds was eyewitness to a brutal murder near the Folly Beach harbor; it was almost midnight when a beautiful blond disappears on a cruise ship never to be seen alive again. It was a little after midnight when two bodies washed up on shore believed to be those belonging to two of the missing drug dealers.

Now Erin, Jess and Captain Logan Maxwell are thrown together as they try to find the missing girl and end the crime-ridden spree of a cruel murder before any more innocent bystanders are killed. Erin and Logan's growing passion for each other ignites the wrath of a ruthless killer and Erin's generaous nature leads her into deadly peril. Can this case be solved before another murder is committed and can true love survive when danger lurks from every corner?

The Barrett family had owned three of the largest plantations in Georgia before the Civil War. Near the end of the war, they had to flee their homes. They settled in Massachusetts, eventually owning vast textile mills. Liz, the daughter of Kathleen and Isaac Barrett, was born in Massachusetts in eighteen eighty. Her father died when she was very young and her mother married his younger brother, Harley, when Liz was ten. She always knew of her mother's love for Georgia and they visited the homeland, to find only one dilapidated plantation house left standing. When she was sixteen, she lost her mother who was buried in the old family cemetery in Jenz Bridge, Georgia. Liz was left with a stepfather who turned to alcohol and after two years of indecision and grieving, she went to Georgia to begin restoration of the house. There she married and had a son. It was a perfect marriage until a secret was uncovered that nearly destroyed her marriage and her life. Through an accident, her life was restored. Now, Liz sits and happily looks upon her loved ones and remembers how close she came to loosing all this forever.