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They struck a bargain for marriage. Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts. But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove to be more of a challenge than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell...

"Harriet Kirk is certain that becoming the new schoolteacher in Ladreville Texas is just what she needs - a chance to put the past behind her and give her younger siblings a brighter tomorrow. What she didn't count on was the presence of handsome former Texas Ranger Lawrence Wood - or the way he affects her fragile heart. But can Harriet and Lawrence ever truly conquer the past in order to find happiness? Tomorrow's Garden is a powerful story of overcoming...

Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie Dawson lives alone in the Alaska mountains practicing the ways of her people. Clay Selby wants to be like his missionary father and work for the native people. Arriving in Alaska to set up a church and school among the Athabascans, Clay is totally focused ... until he meets Lizzie with the striking blue eyes. But she's clearly not part of the tribe. Must Clay choose between his ministry and...

Rebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family's farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promises adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he's the man she's meant to marry. Waiting for the end of the Great War and Arthur's return, Rebekah travels to Texas to care for her ill Aunt Adabelle, sure that her glamorous and exciting life is about to start. But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything.

"Pennsylvania in the late 18th century, once called William Penn's Woods, was an assortment of different faiths living together for the first time in American history. Included in this tapestry was a small and struggling population called Amish. Surrounding this peaceful people were unavoidable threats: both Patriots and the British were pillaging land and goods for the sake of the war, young Amishmen were leaving the faith to take up arms and defend...

Ravaged by disease, preyed upon by ruthless bandits, the Bender family's second year in Mexico has taken a grievous turn. Faced with impossible choices, the expatriate Amish truly discover what it means to live by faith and not by sight. But it's Miriam who must make the hardest choice of all. Domingo. The chiseled native has proven himself a man of principle, grace, and power. Yet is he the pearl of great price for which Miriam would sacrifice everything?...

Addie McRae accepts a job as governess to young Cedric Whitfield, but she has no idea what lies ahead - especially when a string of attempted robberies and a kidnapping threaten the peace of the Whitfield household. Enter Pearson Foster, a visiting treasure hunter, looking for the lost treasure of the steamer Mittie Stephens. When Addie comes to Pearson for help, can the unlikely pair get to the bottom of recent events? Is anyone safe from the uncertainty...

"In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a 'nothing mama,' she struggles to find a place where she really belongs. For answers, Millie turns to the gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs...

"When her nieces and nephews fall victim to their alcoholic father's mistakes, Susanna Hanby vows to rescue them. In 1875, Susanna Hanby travels to her sister's Ohio farm--but no one is there. Her sister's alcoholic husband claims that she has run off and dumped their six children at the county orphanage, and he doesn't care. Desperate to keep the family together, Susanna seeks help from her uncle Will in Westerville. Johann Giere is heir to a thriving...

When her doting father dies, Lady Kendra Townsend is given a choice: marry the man of her money-grubbing uncle's choosing or leave England to risk a new life in America with unknown relatives. Armed with the faith that God has a plan for her, Kendra boards a cargo ship and meets American sea captain Dorian Colburn. But the captain has been wounded by a woman before and guards his independent life. A swashbuckling man doesn't need an English heiress...