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Audrey Needham, Bay Area interior designer to the rich and pretentious, is already on thin ice with her impossible-to-please boss when her great-aunt Daisy asks for support as her husband descends into Alzheimer’s. Now Audrey is risking the career she worked hard to build as she returns to Charity Falls, Oregon. Her feelings toward the idyllic small town are … complicated. While she has many good memories of her childhood summers there, Charity Falls is also the place her father was killed in a tragic fire at the Sugar Pine Inn thirteen years ago.

Avalee Elvis prides herself with being able to fix just about anything. . . except her past. Unable to put the puzzle of her life together, she pours heart and soul into making neglected places whole again. As the owner of Lowcountry Lost, Avalee spends her days in hot-pink Carhartt overalls and a tool belt reclaiming Lowcountry properties. Making them beautiful again releases the deep sigh that soothes the hurt she holds.

Natassa seems to have it all–a devoted husband with a good income, beautiful children, a faithful best friend–but it only takes one night for her world to crumble, catapulting her into a journey of trauma and healing, old pressures and new friendships. Will she learn to stand her ground or will she always live in someone else’s shadow?

Katie Addison's big heart shows in her caring deeds: opening her home to abused women. Rehabilitating injured horses. Helping Warren Tate mend his broken heart. It's only Sheriff Ben O'Keefe who can't seem to get Katie's attention. When mysterious events turn Katie to Ben for help, is this the chance he's been waiting for?

Mother Kincaid, from Christ Is for All Church, has been fervently praying, along with other prayer warriors around the world, for Jesus to return and rescue His saints from this wicked world. One day, God answers her with a list of unknown individuals who need salvation and a commission for the intercessors and prayer warriors to find and draw them to Christ. Then He will come to redeem His saints, and judgment will begin on the earth.

Ten months ago, Kasie Foster broke up with the perfect man. Andrew Stoll was kind and supportive and sported amazing dimples. When Kasie prayed about a future with him, it didn’t feel right, so she walked away to pursue her theater dreams in the UK. Instead, she finds herself putting her plans on hold to help her recently widowered brother care for his young son. But when an awkward chance encounter with her college sweetheart resurrects memories of what could have been, she struggles to keep buried the complicated feelings that arise whenever Andrew shares his dimpled smile.

Every family has its secrets. Josephina “Joey” Harris wouldn’t mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she takes the opportunity to escape the scrutiny of her small town to oversee its restoration.

Ever since they met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica 20 years ago, Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling to Africa together becomes a reality. It's the trip of a lifetime--but life sure isn't what they thought it would be back when they were young.

Single mother and baker Eden Lambert arrives in quaint Village Green looking for a home for herself and her eighteen-month-old son, Jake. Her warm welcome by her elderly hostess, Mary Jo Piermont, is offset by the cold disdain of Mary Jo's self-appointed protector, Joe Wolfe. At first, the long-legged blonde and her kid look like trouble to Joe. Mary Jo saved the builder's life years ago, and he will do no less for the woman he considers a surrogate mother. But as he keeps an eye on the unwanted guests, Joe's suspicions soon become replaced by admiration and respect.

A wedding on an enchanted island of magic. A guest list of gods, immortals, shifters, dragons, and druids. And a sentient city waking after centuries . . . What could go wrong? When Fiona's magnet for mayhem weighs in on her special day, there's no escaping the fallout . . . or the island. With Dark invaders, realm refugees, a feral vampire, and the mystery of the Light Weavers' disappearance to solve, Fi and her friends are fighting on multiple fronts. Thank the goddess there's cake.

Life Before Me, set during the Vietnam era, is a layered narrative of redemption, love, and forgiveness told in the alternating voices of ambitious Air Force fighter pilot Theodore Bailey and the introspective Abigail Sullivan, the love of his life. With tenderness and sincerity, I artfully capture the human longing for purpose and meaning.

Vera Miller, a talented garden designer, comes to Raspberry Ridge with a heavy heart, planning a garden in memory of her son. Dominic, her estranged husband, joins her to help. Working together, they reminisce about their youth spent by Lake Michigan's shores.

With her life crumbling and mental stability reeling, Elle Anders is desperate to discover if her fragmented faith is real so much so, that she commits to serving at a crisis pregnancy home. But between a rigid boss, a saccharine volunteer, and a house full of women with issues far more reaching than she had imagined, Elle must decide what she really believes. Will she have the courage to face her deepest pain?

Katrina left her old life to embrace a new role as the pastor's wife at a small country church. She expected a warm welcome and warm friendships. The last thing she imagined was a congregation that was so petty and judgmental. As Katrina grapples with the challenges of small-town life and her changing relationship with her new husband, she's grieving what she had to leave behind. Everything that identified her as Katrina is gone: her music, the symphony, and the city life that made her feel alive.

Child Eyes takes an in-depth look at the innocence of life destroyed by violence and the need for mending through the restoring hands of God. It includes chilling details about the reality of the homeless experience. One significant moment changed the course of history for two women with similar beginnings.

Juniper's been through a messing breakup, and she's drowning her sorrows in clay, glaze, and crafting. She and her best friend, Penni, have hit the streets of Wimber for a craft fair. But the crazy Texas weather might have other plans for their time, along with a handsome artist just a few tents down the lane.

The Bug Man is getting married on Saturday. . . if his fiancée can find him. Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak lives in a world of maggots and blow flies and decomposing bodies. No wonder he's still single. But Nick has finally found a woman as strange as he is—dog trainer Alena Savard, a woman who is odd, reclusive, and can seemingly talk to animals. It was a match made in heaven. Nick and Alena are scheduled to be married on Saturday—but there's one small problem. Nick has disappeared.

Matthew Goodman is tired, and his one wish is for something he can't have. Instead he focuses on the demands of his work as pastor of Chicagoland's Calvary Community, including bringing a new administrative assistant onboard. New hire twenty-five-year-old Trish Card watches him with somber, lake-clear eyes. What he doesn't know about Trish and her real reason for appearing will dismantle his world.

Cassandra Petit-Charles is not your average preacher’s kid. She carries a gun and takes on Boston’s underbelly. She is an “extraction specialist” and her job is relocating kids who have gotten entangled in street life. Helping at-risk youth feels like penance for Cassie’s wild younger years and she’s at peace with living for each new day’s adventure, even if her family think she’s stuck in the past and afraid of the future. Then, the past returns.

The last thing Phillip Hawkins wants is to return to the small town where he grew up. Especially now when his fledgling business is on the verge of collapse. But when his uncle calls to tell him his mother is in the hospital after overdosing on sleeping pills, guilt and duty compel him to return to Mylin Valley. He hopes to keep his presence in town under the radar, but a run-in with an old friend, and his friend’s attractive sister, brings Phillip an unexpected source of support and encouragement.