A sixteen-year-old runaway drug user, who lives in a tent in a forest seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. Is the delusion a result of drug-use or a true calling to God? For logger Tom Cross, the visions offer a last chance for him and his paralysed son,
In a novel inspired by the author's own cancer experience, two sisters seek a new balance in work, family, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. Determined to save Sherri's life, Kristen drops everything to guide her sister on the harrowing cancer treatment journey. When she's unable to balance the strain of caring for her patients, being a wife and mother, and her frantic efforts to save her sister, Kristen's carefully balanced life crumbles, starting with her mar...
Folks are dying as fast as the ash trees in the southern Indiana town ravaged by heroin where Jaycee Givens lives. With her mother in prison, Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one. Dividing her time between the diner where she works and her quirky neighbor Sudie's place, Jaycee nurses a broken heart among a collection of unlikely friends. But eventually, she realizes she can't hide her pregnancy any longer not even from the baby's abusive fa...
A charming and engrossing novel for fans of Southern fiction and the recent hit memoir Hillbilly Elegy. The lush and storied coal-mining town of Beulah Mountain, West Virginia and the good people who live there are in danger of being destroyed for the sake of profit. Will the truth about the town's past be its final undoing, or its saving grace?
Four headstrong siblings must satisfy their father's dying demands--or risk losing his fortune. Let the clash of wills begin. Charleston blue blood Clayton Wilcott "got religion" late in life; so late, it turns out his kids never took to it. So he's left a provisional will delivered in a highly unorthodox way. Now they're going to have to honor Daddy's commandments from beyond the grave--for a full year--or be cut off from their substantial inheritances.The scent of wisteria lingers in the air...
He made himself an island until something unexpected washed ashore.When Holton lost his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, he shut himself off from the world, living a life of seclusion, making drifwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Until twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When he discovers Libby is actually his late wife's illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption without his knowledge, his life is turned u...
"Hunter's delightful Regency romance is sure to entertain."--Publishers Weekly on Vying for the Viscount Miss Harriet Hancock enjoys playing the role of eccentric heiress, using her wealth and influence to cleverly and anonymously better the lives of those in Newmarket. Though she keeps people at a distance to protect a years-old secret, when her friend pleads for help on a personal project, Harriet can't resist. Stable hand Jonas Fitzroy would do anything for his twin sister, even if it mean...
Naomi's Gift by Amy ClipstonNaomi has begun to believe that she isn't meant to find love, but she might receive more than she has ever hoped for this Christmas.Twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has all but given up on marriage and children. As Christmas approaches, Naomi is certain that her life will be spent as an old maid, helping with the family's quilting business and taking care of her eight siblings. Then she meets Caleb, a young widower with a 7-year-old daughter, and her world is once agai...
A CONTENDER RUNNING FOR THE ROSES As a Black woman in a field with little diversity, Piper McKinney is determined to make her mark on the horse-racing world. Raised on a Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky, Piper's dream is for her horse to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby. With the help of her best friend and trainer, Tucker Hale, she gains national attention but must grapple with the complications that arise when a journalist delves into her past as a transracial adoptee. A BEST FRIEND RACING FO...
Nick loves science and lives for Christmas. Every December he hightails it to an American city guaranteed to have a picture-postcard, white Christmas and celebrates the holiday all alone. This year— for reasons both secret and of deep significance to him— Nick is planning to spend Christmas in Seville, Spain. He’ s been planning and banking on it for the past twelve years, but a series of unexpected occurrences threatens to scuttle it all.
The Promise of Home (Mirror Lake, #5) (Love Inspired Larger Print)
by Kathryn Springer
As temporary guardian of her sister's two children, big-city magazine columnist Jenna Gardner is forced to face her past. She isn't in Mirror Lake for long before she realizes that everything has changed. And it's not her past throwing her off kilter now - it's handsome next-door neighbor, Dev McGuire. Though Dev gets under her skin, he quickly proves himself an excellent father figure for the children. Soon he's encouraging Jenna to believe in second chances. But it'll take a leap of faith to b...
Jason Stevens, the 24-year-old great-nephew of my longtime friend, Red Stevens, glared at me with a look of rage, defiance and disrespect that only someone who has made a lifelong practice of selfish anger can muster. He slammed his hand on the table. "I knew that mean old man wouldn't leave anything for me. He always hated me." He stood up to stomp out of the room. "Not so fast," I called to him. "You are, indeed, mentioned here in the will." "Okay, what did the old goat give me? I bet it's not...
Ever since they met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica 20 years ago, Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling to Africa together becomes a reality. It's the trip of a lifetime--but life sure isn't what they thought it would be back when they were young. Along with their suitcases, each woman brings along emotional baggage that weighs heavily o...