Beth MacKay returns to Culdee Creek after five years of medical school determined to prove herself. Her first love, pastor Noah Starr, is now a widowed father who is questioning his ministry.

"Recently widowed after twenty years of marriage, Frances Lehman is only just tasting the freedom and opportunity that her Promise Lodge friends enjoy. So she's not about to be pressured into marriage by her widowed brother-in-law, even if she and her daughter have no real means of support. Much more promising is her new friendship with Preacher Marlin Kurtz, though their respective families don't see their relationship as proper . . . When Frances...

Reverend Betsy Blessing has big decisions to make after she agrees to wed her long-time friend, David Swenson, and a developer offers to buy the crumbling urban church building, but her choices seem to differ from the ideas of her future mother-in-law, who hopes to feature the nuptials in an upcoming issue of "Budget Bride" magazine, and the parishioners who are angered over relocating the church.

"Druscilla Delaney, a parson's daughter, is enthralled with the wealthy Framling family next door, especially the handsome Fabian. But she knows better than to trust his intentions. As a long-time companion to Fabian's sister, Lavinia, Druscilla agrees to accompany the Framlings to a British outpost in India as a governess—and to avoid a marriage of convenience back home. Shortly after arriving, Druscilla finds herself trapped in New Delhi in the...

Sam Gardner takes a leave of absence from his post as pastor of Harmony Friends Meeting in order to care for his ailing father, and begins to wonder whether he has lost the job for good when the Quaker congregation takes a shine to his spunky female replacement.

"Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely...

For more than a decade, minister Analiese Wagner has felt privileged to lead her parishioners along a well-lit path. Her commitment has never been seriously tested until the frigid night she encounters a homeless family huddling in the churchyard. Offering them shelter in a vacant parish house apartment and taking teenage Shiloh Fowler-a girl desperate to rescue her parents-under her wing, she tests the loyalty and faith of her congregation. Isaiah...

"A minister with a heart of gold... and a pregnant bride with no groom! Jilted at the altar, Natalie Davis has no one she can turn to-until Jacob Stone steps in. The single minister's drawn to the beautiful mommy-to-be and wants to help...even if it goes against his congregation's wishes and could cost him his job. But when she refuses to accept charity, can he convince her she's more than a ministry project?"--Page 4 of cover.

Some things are best left undisturbed... In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb that lay beneath the church's crumbling walls. The moment the workman raised the tomb lid, an unspeakable horror escaped. At a loss to explain the unsettling noises and frightening visions that begin to plague...