"Geoffrey Tremont is untroubled by his contented bachelor life in New York City, filled with sophisticated friends, an undemanding lover devoted to her own career, and his wise brother, a psychiatrist who is the only person who understands him. On an ordinary day, Geoffrey recieves a registered letter advising him that an old friend has named him the executor of her estate. Twenty years ago, in college, Geoffrey and Laura Welles had been best friends,...

After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...

Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair. Unlike most islanders, bold and spirited Daphne Coffin doesn't defer to Ren as an...

Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...

Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-old-daughter. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, The local Amana villagers welcome them. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Jacob's daughter back to health. Jacob's growing interest in Liesel complicates his position in the Amanas. Will he fight to stay in the only place that feels like home, or...

"Gina Petrillo runs home to Winding River to escape her troubles, but they follow her when lawyer Rafe O'Donnell, determined not to let his suspect get away, pursues her."--

Living in Munich with relatives, Beth Bridgewater, a German American, finds herself in a nightmare as World War II erupts in a war which she takes no side, for she is a Quaker pacifist. Just as she gains opportunity to escape Germany, Beth decides to stay.

In 1862 in Loudoun County, Virginia, pacificist Quakers Levi Clement and Comfort Clarke wed in a loveless marriage. He wed her out of deference to his heartbroken father who disowned his oldest son for joining the Northern army. Levi loves Willa Mae Tyler, who puts on the Confederate uniform to fight the Yankees who brutally killed her family. She left with a secret that she carries inside her womb, a secret that has given her the will to live for...

"As tensions between North and South simmer over slavery, Sheriff Clay Dalton's path collides with a plainspoken yet passionate young abolitionist named Rebecca Albright, and the two find themselves propelled on a journey to discover just who God has called them to be, soon realizing that each holds a key to the other's answer"--

"Había una vez, en una pequeña librería de Londres, una joven soñadora llamada Posy Morland, quien vivía rodeada de libros y se escondía tras las páginas de sus novelas románticas favoritas. Un día, cuando la excéntrica y anciana dueña de Marcapáginas murió, Posy se vio obligada a hacerse cargo de la librería, que se encontraba en una situación lamentable, y salir así de su cómodo refugio de romances de ficción. Sin embargo, Posy...