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After the death of his wife, Morgan Spencer retreated to his brother's Rocky Mountain ranch for two years to raise their infant daughter Olivia. As he's preparing to return to Santa Barbara, he meets Quinn Riley--a woman forced into a life of fear and isolation after helping put a man behind bars. When that criminal is released, Quinn fears her past will endanger the entire Spencer family and determines to leave town; however, fixing problems is what...
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Amish cookie club volume 1
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"Every other Friday, Edna Esh and three of her childhood friends meet to bake sugar cookies for their respective church districts on worship Sunday. It's a time to give to the Plain community--and give support to each other as they share their joys and fears"--
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Redemption's light volume 1
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Toronto, 1939. Released after being incarcerated in a woman's reformatory for being pregnant and unmarried, Olivia Rosetti's family is unwilling to forgive her. She ends up homeless. Well-to-do widow Ruth Bennington hires Olivia to help with a maternity home for troubled women, and for years Olivia focuses herself on the home. Greek widower Darius Reed is determined to protect his daughter from the prejudice that killed his wife. When his employer...
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Agnes Kingsley can hardly bear to walk past the house she lived in as a married woman. It is full of bad memories she's never shared--not even with her best friend, Ian James. But now Ian wants her help to restore that old home for a community project. Agnes knows it is for a good cause, but as their work brings them even closer together, she is afraid to trust--in herself or in the feelings she's secretly harbored for her childhood friend. Yet as...
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River Haven volume 1
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In the wake of his estranged wife's murder, widower Michael Forster returns to the Amish community he'd left as a teen. He wants a fresh start for himself and his daughter, Allie, away from those who still believe he's guilty. In River Haven, a quieter life seems possible. If only Allie's Amish schoolteacher, Catherine Brandt, was easier to ignore. A problem solver by nature, Cathy can tell Allie's withdrawn demeanor isn't due to shyness. But getting...
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"In spite of past differences, Trey Walker Stafford would never forget how his uncle, a cowboy and rancher, adopted him and made him part of the family. He'd left the Double S Ranch to pursue music against Sam's wishes and returns discouraged about life and love after tragically losing his wife. Trey feels that he's living a lie, singing of love and happily-ever-afters while dealing with an emptiness within. Will sacrificing part of himself to help...
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"Cassandra Hale has lived her entire life in a girls' school--first as a student and then as a teacher--with no knowledge of her parents' identity. After the headmistress's death, Cassandra discovers a letter addressed to her requesting that she visit Briarton Park in Yorkshire. Suspecting this request is a clue to her past, she leaves her position to pursue answers. Eager to escape the memories in Plymouth, widower James Warrington moves his entire...
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Widowed firefighter Mason Benfield is happy putting out fires and running a teen center - anything to distract himself frm the loss of his wife. A loss he blames on a young doctor's inexperience. So when he discovers his landlord's new houseguest is just out of med school and working at the new health clinic, Mason bristles. Since Lexis Campbell is also donating her time to his teen center, he can't escape the woman...or the attraction he feels to...
10) Holding the fort
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Louisa Bell didn't want to be a dance-hall singer, but circumstances forced her hand. She gets by with help from her brother in the cavalry, so when he runs afoul of his commanding officer she undertakes a visit to Fort Reno. Major Daniel Adams can barely control his rowdy troops, much less two adolescent daughters. He must find someone suitable to guide his children, or lose them to his mother-in-law. When Louisa arrives with reading materials, she's...
11) Her Texas cowboy
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"When Rachel Maddox returns to her hometown of Fredericksburg, Texas, avoiding her ex is much easier said than done. Still nursing the broken heart Rachel caused years earlier, rancher next door Hunter McDermott figures he can be cordial for the brief time she’s in town—maybe they can even be friends. But how do you forge just a friendship with someone you’ve always pictured as your bride?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
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"Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...
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"She'll do anything for her niece, even marry the man who broke her heart ... Nothing can keep May Bender in her Amish hometown, except caring for her baby niece. But the bishop insists that May also marry her widowed brother-in-law, Thad Hochstedler, the beau who jilted her to wed her sister. Can May risk her heart long enough to learn the real reason for Thad's first marriage ... and possibly rediscover their love"--
14) The refuge
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1849. Darcie and Walter Goodwin join a Shaker village to escape a cholera epidemic sweeping the area. It's meant to be a temporary stay, but Walter is killed in a riverboat accident. With no family and no money, Darcie has little choice but to stay with the Shakers. To complicate matters, she is expecting a baby conceived before she and her husband came to the Shaker village. Marital relationships are considered sinful in this celibate community,...
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Every Amish season volume 04
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"Seventy-three-year old Laura Kauffman offers to help with Zechariah Stutzman's five great-grandchildren after their mother has a difficult childbirth, and discovers that they are wrestling with the same questions about loss and hope."--
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"When the illustrious India Hartley is accused of murder, she has to uncover the deceptions of others to save herself...India Hartley, the famous and beautiful actress, is now alone in the world after her father's death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah's Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night's performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in...
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"When empty nester Mallory Farrell inherits her grandmother's run-down tourist shop in Seaport, Oregon, it seems the only sensible thing to do is to sell it. But when her former secret crush, Grayson Matthews, wants to buy the property in order to complete his plans to redevelop the funky town's business district into a soulless, cookie-cutter outdoor mall, Mallory digs in her heels and decides to renovate the property herself. With a lot of hard...
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Heart of the Amish volume 02
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"Ruth Defies Authority to Hold on to her Family Farm. Full of faith, hope, and romance, this new series takes you into the Heart of Amish country. Ruth Helmuth has never been rude in her life; trust her to choose the bishop of her Amish community for her first time! Ruth has worked hard to keep body and soul together since her husband, Levi’s, death. She tends her herd of goats, making her living from the milk and fiber she gets from them, all while...
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Widowed father of triplets Sawyer Plank knows he has his hands full. After arriving in the Amish community of Willow Creek to help with the fall harvest, Sawyer asks schoolteacher Hannah Lantz to be his nanny. With a deaf grandfather to care for, the offer is more than just a job for Hannah-it's a chance to fulfill her all-but-forgotten dream of being a mother. The children soon flourish under Hannah's watch, and though Sawyer never dreamed he'd find...
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"Tillie Gingerich is so in love with Melvin Yoder that she agrees to leave her conservative Amish home to live with him in the English world. But when the struggle to make ends meet leads to conflict, and reveals troubling weaknesses in their relationship, Tillie returns to Pontotoc--pregnant and unmarried. Her loving family accepts her, but to convince the rest of the community, they must turn to the bishop. Distraught, Tillie runs away on Christmas...
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