In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.

The Covington family's wealth and status in Buffalo hold no appeal for William. His greatest desire is to minister to others. He is delighted, then, when a church in Walnutport, Pennsylvania, call him to be their pastor. Can he ever fill the shoes of Reverend Nelson, who has lovingly served this small canal community for years? Betsy Nelson can hardly accept her father's retirement, but she knows his failing heart demands it. She leaves her life in...

The town of Hollyhill is buzzing with anticipation--a wedding may be on the horizon, if only David Brooke can find the nerve to pop the question.

Divorced and remarried, Rev. Curtis Black is now head of a newly-formed church. Trouble is, Curtis can't stay on the straight and narrow, as his second marriage sours and he takes up with former lover Adrienne and then Carmen, the mother of his teenage daughter, Alicia. Alicia herself, resentful of Curtis's lack of attention, meets someone over the Internet, and soon finds herself in trouble. And as his professional and personal relationships crumble,...

A brash newspaperman in 1830s New Jersey must decide if redeeming his career is more important than a future with the intriguing woman he investigates, who turns out to be Ruth Livingstone--the daughter of a man involved in a high-profile trial.

The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While seeking to revive the church and build a cathedral in the desert, the clerics, like their historical prototypes, Bishop Jean Laury and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face religious corruption, natural adversity, and the loneliness of living in a strange...

Minister Paul Hudson, called to pastor a struggling church in California, becomes so caught up in building attendance and filling church coffers that he loses sight of his mission to save souls, alienating his wife and son, and eventually bringing about his own downfall.

What does it really mean to be a Christian? In His Steps was the first to ask "What would Jesus do? and quickly became one of the best-selling books of all times. A classic Christian novel. "I want volunteers from First Church who will pledge themselves, earnestly and honestly, for an entire year; not to do anything without first asking the question, 'What would Jesus do?'" The town Reverend never dreamed that among those who responded would be the...

Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg arrives in Uppsala, Iowa, in the late nineteenth century and takes a job caring for the sick mother and two young nieces of dairy farmer Dirk Bridger, and though she chides her sisters for their infatuation with the handsome and hardworking Dirk, she cannot hide the growing truth that she too would like to attract his attention.

After more than 38 years, Father Tim Kavanagh returns to his childhood home of Holly Springs, Mississippi, on a profoundly personal journey. Whatever became of Tommy Knoles, his forbidden childhood friend, and Peggy, the loving woman who was like a second mother? What were the facts behind the court trial that drove the Kavanagh family even further apart?