Nancy J. Attwell
And Then She Fell
Twenty-nine-year-old Henrietta Cynster is often called “The Matchbreaker” because she helps young women of the ton determine whether their suitors…
Lovelier than Daylight
Residents of the highly religious town of Westerville, Ohio, were proud of the part they played in the abolition movement,…
A Hidden Truth
I had never heard of the Amana Colony until I read this first book in Judith Miller’s Home to Amana…
Be Still My Soul
When a stolen kiss leads to a shotgun wedding, 17-year-old Lonnie Sawyer trades an abusive father for an angry husband.…
The Bride Wore Pearls
The St. James Society, a gentleman’s club in mid-19th-century London, is in reality a cover for the Fraternitas Aureae Crucis…
Prize of My Heart
Captain Brogan Talvis, an ex-privateer, has spent three years searching for his young son because his deceased wife abandoned the…
Westward Hearts
Since her husband’s death three years before, in 1851, Elizabeth Martin and her two children have continued running their farm…
Love Blooms in Winter
In 1892, Mae Wilkey is so worried about the welfare of her elderly neighbor, Pauline, that she leaps to the…
Heart of Gold
In 1864, Shannon Adair dutifully accompanies her minister father to his new church in the gold rush town of Grand…
The Captive Heart
This second book in the Daughters of Caleb Bender series, about an Amish family that immigrates, in 1921, to Paradise…
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