Ruth Ann Phimister

In the 1860s, a woman and her family embark on a perilous wagon train journey to her uncle's ranch in the Montana Territory, during which she meets an embittered trail guide.

Clark and Marty, the pioneer couple initially thrown together after the deaths of their first mates, now preside over a growing number of youngsters in their prairie home.

Dianne and Cole Selby have worked hard to preserve their Montana ranch, the Diamond V, but a new family with designs on their land is trying to uproot them and Dianne must leaave the outcome up to her husband and place her trust in God.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

After all the planning and dreaming, Missie and Willie LaHaye were actually on the trail west in a covered wagon. Leaving behind the prairie home of Clark and Marty Davis, Missie finds herself caught between the elation of the new adventure and wondering if she'll ever see her family again. But the hardships of the trail soon force Missie and Willie to become rugged pioneers. Missie must learn how to live her faith, and then, when they finally...

Eliza, a widowed mother of three, desperately struggling to run the family orchard in the midst of the Great Depression, finds herself drawn to, yet fearful of, the stranger who arrives asking to work for food. This successful follow-up to Wings of Refuge and Eve's Daughters combines a strong spiritual story line with endearing, believable characters during the Great Depression. "How's a scrawny young thing like you, with three little kids to raise,...

Leaving their homelands for America, Elin, Kirsten, and Sofia begin a difficult journey where they endure the ocean voyage in steerage and detention on Ellis Island--a journey where each woman will come to understand her secret longings and the meaning of home.

Callie Webber and her boss, Tom travel to the Virgin Islands to investigate the mysterious shooting of their friend and mentor, Eli, and become involved in fraud, secret identities, and double-crosses.

Cathy Flaherty begins to doubt God's promise that all things work together for good when her fifteen-year-old son is arrested for selling drugs, and she is forced to delay her wedding to Steve Bennett, but her loving neighbors in Cedar Circle draw near to offer support in spite of problems of their own.

"Working to provide quality work clothes to women who can't afford to buy their own, Callie becomes involved with one young woman trying to come out of drug rehabilitation - just as she's charged with murder. What appears to be a routine murder investigation in her sleepy waterside village suddenly becomes complicated amid international intrigue, cutting-edge technology, and deadly deception. In a desperate moment at what could be the end of her life,...