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Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the Western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. Now, she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far North. While Wynn is accustomed to life in the North, Elizabeth is not. Can their love for each other sustain them through a harsh winter, loneliness, and rigors of life without any of the conveniences they're used to?

As far as Thea Michener is concerned, it's time for a change. With her husband murdered and her much-anticipated baby stillborn, there is nothing left for her in Ladreville. Having accepted a position as Cimarron Creek's midwife, she has no intention of remarrying and trying for another child...

When Miss Charlotte Wilson asks God for a husband, she decides He must want her to pursue Mr. Hamilton Beckett, the catch of the season. The only problem? She's never actually met Hamilton. Fortunately, one of her oldest and dearest friends, Mr. Henry St. James—who has returned to New York...

From afar, Cimarron Creek seems like an idyllic town tucked in the Texas Hill Country. But when former schoolteacher Lydia Crawford steps onto its dusty streets in 1880, she finds a town with a deep-seated resentment of Northerners—like her. Lydia won't let that get her down, though. All will...

Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned...

Hannah Madison's life is comfortable, well-ordered, and safe. She knows what to expect. Including her mother's plans that Hannah marry Jamie Reed, the heir to the neighboring plantation. But her sheltered life is disrupted when she stumbles upon a seriously injured stranger in the Reeds' barn. He seems to need her help. As she nurses him back to health, Hannah is drawn to the handsome man with amnesia that she calls Adam.

While all of London waits for snow, an orphanage in need holds holiday cheer, sparks of love, and secrets waiting to be discovered. When Ebeneezer Scrooge's former fiancée, Belle Beaumont, unexpectedly inherits a struggling London orphanage, she dreams of giving the children of Haven House the...

Marcus Cassianus Varro has spent his life enforcing Rome’s peace with an iron hand. But Jerusalem during Passover is a tinderbox—and the arrival of a Galilean teacher known as Jesus strikes the match. Crowds roar His name. Priests whisper of blasphemy. Rome senses rebellion. And Marcus, ordered to hold the city together, finds himself watching a Man who defies every category he knows. Jesus speaks with quiet authority, moves with compassion, and carries a grief Marcus cannot explain.

Leah Garrison knows firsthand the cruelty society inflicts on unwed mothers. After her dear friend Susanna dies alone in childbirth, abandoned by the child's father, Leah vows never to care for a man outside her family--and to ensure no woman suffers Susanna's fate. With her grandparents'...

When World War II pulls the Alcott sisters in different directions, Joan is restless for a new start after turning down a proposal from her best friend Lawrence Whitman and watching her writing dreams crumble under constant rejection. Determined to serve her country, she joins Philadelphia's...

Young widow Elizabeth Eaton resides with her late husband's cold, critical family. When she learns her estranged father, a writer and naturalist, has died in a rented cottage on the North Devonshire coast, Elizabeth reluctantly agrees to travel there to claim his belongings and notes for a new...

Homeless after the sudden death of her master, Danna is traveling in search of work when a runaway horse takes off with its royal rider. Bringing the wild mare under control, she discovers that its occupant is none other than Queen Esther of Persia. When they realize the horse bolting was no...

Gabe Talmadge languished in prison for ten years, convicted of a horrible crime. Now free, he's unable to find work in the midst of the Great Depression. In desperation, he returns home to Ransom, Idaho, hoping his uncaring father will give him food and shelter, if not love. But the prodigal...

He was a man of salt and storms, defined by a single night of cowardice. Simon Peter was never meant to be a hero. A simple fisherman from the mist-shrouded shores of Galilee, he was a man of impulsive passion and crushing failure. He is haunted by the scent of a charcoal fire and the echo of a rooster’s crow—the sensory scars of the night he denied the Man he called Lord. But the Master he failed has given him a terrifying gift: the Keys to a Kingdom that has no borders.

It’s 1771, and tensions run high in colonial North Carolina. Frontier preacher Robert Boothe has spent the last four years standing against unlawful taxes and government corruption. To his close-knit congregation, Robert is a courageous man of God who defends the truth. To his wife and young daughter, he’s a devoted protector who longs to shield them from the growing unrest. To the governor’s men, he’s a rebel who preaches a dangerous gospel of God-given freedom. No one sees the doubts he wrestles in his own heart.

Joanna's wealthy family aspires to Herod's inner circle, but when her father's esteemed position in the Sepphoris Sanhedrin is threatened, her family harbors a dark secret. Entangled in the complexities of aristocratic life and an impending arranged marriage, Joanna is caught between her own desires and maintaining appearances. When tragedy strikes, Joanna grapples with a new future that challenges her sense of duty and hope for love.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, synonymous with emotionally powerful Christmas storytelling, comes a new novel based on a historical figure, set in Gilded Age New York. One woman whose single act of courage ignites a movement to protect the most vulnerable...

"Hunt's fans will be eager to sink their teeth into this evocative historical and its inspiring message of faith in times of trial."--Publishers Weekly on The Sisters of Corinth When Rebekah is offered a marriage to Isaac--heir to wealthy and well-respected Abraham--she leaves behind the only...

Lady Amanda Whitcombe dreamed of the untamed beauty of the American West from the moment Buffalo Bill’s Wild West dazzled her during the Queen’s Jubilee. But nothing could prepare her for the rugged wilderness of Yellowstone—or the man who would change her life forever. When Amanda is swept into the icy currents of a park river, game scout Isaiah Coltrane rescues her. Used to solitude and determined to avoid entanglements—especially with a woman as refined as Amanda—he’s eager to return her to civilization.

Freedom is a choice. Love is a battle. Both demand a price. Karin Krejikova receives unthinkable news—her husband, famed Hussite fighter Pavel Krejik has vanished. The news is delivered by someone from her past. Someone she believed dead–her former betrothed. The disgraced Lukas Vitek may never again breathe air as a free man. But his family’s appeals culminate in a plan to wed his childhood friend Anicka Vorisek. Passed over by other suitors, she has become a burden on her family. Stepan puts his honor on the line to see his former friend rescued.