For fans of The Birth of Venus, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Other Boleyn Girl, Amy Hassinger, author of Nina: Adolescence, delivers this historically lush, lyrical and thoroughly enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man, and about the moral and spiritual struggles of faith. In 1896, the priest in a small village in southern France suddenly came into possession of immense wealth. This much is true. What no one...

The story of one of history's most controversial figures - Martin Luther - springs to life in this historical novel. Readers are shown how God equipped this extraordinary man to stand strong, though it often meant standing alone, in the midst of the raging storm of controversy.

In the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father-- until the night he hears Polly Catlett's enchanting voice, caroling. An intense connection quickly forms between the two, but John's reckless spirit and disregard for the Christian life are concerns for the responsible, devout Polly. When...

A story about one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Sienna, the daughter of a prosperous dyer in 14th century Sienna. She never forgot the mystical experience of her youth, at a time when she devoted herself to Christ. It was a shock to her family when, refusing to marriage, she insisted on giving her life totally to God. It was a dangerous era with city-states at war with each other, the pope was in France, and there was...