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Not Until Christmas Morning by Valerie M. Bodden
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s a fixer… He’s about as broken as they come… Can they learn to turn to God for healing and hope this Christmas? Leah has always been a fixer. That’s why she decided to foster a troubled teen. And it’s why she’s determined to give him the perfect Christmas. It might also be why she feels compelled to reach out to her grinchy, reclusive neighbor Austin... -
A Heart Renewed by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis story deals with sensitive issues that may be triggering for some readers. Please read the Note to the Reader right before the start of Chapter One for more information.A single night changed everything for her.One man’s choices robbed her of her sense of security. She is powerless. Held captive by the fears in her mind... -
Not Until Someday: A Christian Romance by Valerie M. Bodden
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s waiting for her someday. He thinks his has already come and gone.After spending the past five years caring for her ill grandfather, Grace Calvano is eager to honor his memory by turning his stately old house in Hope Springs into a bed-and-breakfast... -
Healing Hearts: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHelping those less fortunate than him shouldn’t have come at such a high cost.Ryker Bennet thought he had the world by the tail. A beautiful fiancée. A successful career as a pediatric surgeon. Plenty of money. Everything was perfect and on track for the life he’d planned for himself... -
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A Change of Heart by Samantha Price
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCherish gets a surprise visitor, who changes her life forever. That's not the only change for the Baker/Bruner family when tragedy strikes... -
Because of Him: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBoth of their pasts have held pain and loss, but will they finally be able to move past it all together? In the blink of an eye, Cara Morgan lost her mom and the life she’d been building for herself as a professional ballet dancer. Within months, she had a new name and a new life in a small town on the other side of the country... -
The Blessing by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReturn to the Troyer farm where, despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Joel and Heidi once again open their Ohio home up to those seeking to learn about Amish cooking... -
Driftwood Danger by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s on one side of the fight to preserve Cape Corral. She’s on the other.Abigail Ferguson wakes up in a strange place with bruises on her face and her hands bound. Someone is trying to teach her family a painful lesson and using Abigail as a pawn. When she’s able to call for help, only one person comes to mind—law enforcement officer Grant Matthews... -
Magical Twilights by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey say you can never go home. Tiffany Grant wanted to return to her hometown of Blueberry Beach in style – but a bunch of bad choices mean that she’s crawling back with barely a penny to her name.At least her debts are paid off, even if she had to sell everything she owned to make that happen.She has a lot of regrets and a lot of sins and secrets to make up for... -
Sweet Afternoons by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWillen Hawkins knew exactly what she wanted to do with her unexpected inheritance: use it to fix up the Indigo Inn at Blueberry Beach. After all, it’s been more than eighteen years since she graduated from Blueberry Beach High and left town.The life she’s created for herself is far more lonely than the life she’d envisioned for herself as a teen... -
Misty Mornings by Jessie Gussman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs they agreed on the night of their high school graduation, Leiklyn and her two friends, Tiffany and Willen meet on the porch of the Manor at Blueberry Beach on April Fool’s day, eighteen years after being given their diplomas. Life hadn’t turned out as expected for any of them... -
The Seekers by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoin a class of unlikely Ohioans who take cooking lessons at Lyle and Heidi Troyer’s Amish farm. A woman engaged to marry, an expectant mother estranged from her family, a widowed mom seeking to simplify, a Vietnam vet who camps on the Troyer’s farm, and an Amish widower make up the mismatched lot of students... -
Reaching Her Heart: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill her heart ever be free to love again? Does she even want it to be? He had been the love of Shayna Caron’s life. Her husband. Her protector. Her world. But then he was tragically taken from her. As a single parent, her focus is completely on raising their son and trying to provide the best possible life for him... -
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Something Lovely by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIvy's story is the ninth and final addition to the Bishop Family series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but it is recommended that you begin with book one to get the full experience of the family's history. Bishop Motorcycles had been a Memphis institution since the 1960's. Ivy's grandfather started the business, and her parents now helped him run it... -
A Touch of Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Christian romance novel of 85,000 words is the sixth book in The Callaghans & McFaddens series from USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Rae Jordan. A HANDFUL OF FLOWERS (ASIN: B01APAIXM6) is the prequel to this series. All he’s wanted is a special woman to shower with love. Mitch Callaghan had a great example of a wonderful relationship as he grew up... -
The Preacher's Son by Patricia Johns
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this poignant new series, Patricia Johns introduces an Amish family striving to reclaim the promise of love, marriage, and community . . . The Amish residents of Bountiful, Pennsylvania, are stunned when preacher Abe Yoder is imprisoned for fraud. For Abe’s son, Isaiah, the news cuts doubly deep. His daet’s misdeeds have cost Isaiah his family’s land and their good name... -
The Tenderness of His Love by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPLEASE NOTE: this book was part of the boxed set CHERISH which was available in 2017. If you purchased or read that boxed set, you will already have read this book... -
A Kingsbury Collection: Where Yesterday Lives / When Joy Came to Stay / On Every Side by Karen Kingsbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Page-Turning Novels in One Volume! Where Yesterday Lives Ellen Barrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque hometown and the love she left behind. The eldest of five siblings, she longs for the time, long ago, when they were a happy family... -
Forever My Love by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFOREVER MY LOVE is book 2 in the Christian romance series The McKinleys by bestselling author, Kimberly Rae Jordan. Follow the stories of Eric, Brooke, Alicia and Victoria as their present lives are impacted by decisions and events in their past. This heartwarming series of love, faith and family is sure to inspire and move you. Brooke McKinley has room in her life for only one guy... -
When There is Love by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWHEN THERE IS LOVE is book 3 in the Christian romance series The McKinleys by bestselling author, Kimberly Rae Jordan. Follow the stories of Eric, Brooke, Victoria and Alicia as their present lives are impacted by decisions and events in their past. This heartwarming series of love, faith and family is sure to inspire and move you... -
Her Heart, His Home: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 5 in the bestselling Christian Romance series, Home To Collingsworth, Her Heart, His Home brings us the story of Will, the lone brother in the Collingsworth family. Will Collingsworth thought he'd had it all. A wife he adored. A job he enjoyed. Financial security through his inheritance. And a baby on the way. Then tragedy strikes, and he is left to raise his daughter on his own... -
The Mind by Edee M Fallon, Kate Stewart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe fell in love in a lightning strike, a sudden anomaly in a sea of lost people. He knew right away, yet I was hesitant. I could have never prepared myself for a love like ours. No one could. As a child, I had conjured an amazing story in my mind. It was a story I could retell about a man that would move me like no other; a story about the way we met and how he had swept me off my feet... -
The Beloved Hope Chest by Amy Clipston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the final installment of the Amish Heirloom series, the Fisher sisters learn the mystery behind their parents’ marriage—and about the sibling who has never been spoken of. Mattie Fisher has a secret she’s kept from her three daughters. After they discover clues in her hope chest, Mattie realizes it’s time to tell them the truth about why she married their father—and about her life before then... -
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Finding Joy by Melanie D. Snitker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, what looks like a dead end, is really a new beginning. A horrific accident changed everything for Parker Wilson. Unable to find solid footing in his disrupted life, he returns to his family's ranch, a place he thought he'd left behind for good. The scars on his face are a daily reminder of all he's lost, yet his mom still insists he needs to stop hiding and live his life again... -
The Bake Shop by Amy Clipston
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReturn to Lancaster County with the first installment of Amy Clipston's charming new Amish Marketplace series. Christiana Kurtz loves to bake, but when her bake stand becomes too busy, her mother encourages her to move her business to the local market... -
Finding Home by Carolyne Aarsen
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNurse’s aide Naomi Deacon desperately wants to heal her devastated soul. After caring for her fiancé in his final months, she’s returned to her small hometown alone and looking for direction. So when a pregnant teenager needs in-home care, Naomi takes the job… even though the young woman’s step-brother is the bad boy who broke her heart... -
Letting Go by B.A. Wolfe
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook # 1.5 of The Keaton Series The much anticipated companion novel to Away -- the heart gripping romance about first loves and unforgettable moments. Now experience it all from Jason's point of view in Letting Go. Jason Bradley is a simple, country guy thrust into a life most wouldn't consider normal... -
The Hope We Share by Juliette Duncan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan the Master Potter work in Rachel and Andrew’s hearts and give them a second chance at love? Rachel Jennings’ unwillingness to forgive God for her twin sister’s death when they were twelve has made her bitter and rebellious. Now, approaching thirty, Rachel flees an unhealthy relationship and heads north with her son, Joshua... -
Refuge of the Heart by Ruth Logan Herne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDistrict attorney Mitchell Sanderson lost his family to tragedy. He became a dogged prosecutor, with an enviable conviction rate. But when faith, conscience and love of a troubled refugee ripple the smooth waters of his existence, can Mitch risk everything for love? Magdalena Serida fought her way out of a govenment-quelled uprising in Chechnya... -
Everything Behind Us: A Murphy Brothers Story (Book 3) (Murphy Brothers Stories) by Jennifer Rodewald
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNeither wants to relive the past, but they need each other to face the future. Connor Murphy lives by a code of honor and service. Dignified, duty-bound, and responsible, he’s spent the past eight years as a single enlisted airman, determined never to mess up another person’s life the way he did Sadie’s... -
A Wedding to Cherish by Evangeline Kelly
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s about to marry the wrong woman until he meets the wedding planner, and now he has a decision to make.Always the wedding planner and never the bride. That’s what Daisy Ray is afraid her future holds. Things never seem to go well for her in the love department, but her mom says God must be saving her for that special man... -
A Moment Like This by Staci Stallings
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWedding bells are pealing for Caleb James and Rachel Taylor in Ridgemount, North Carolina. Surrounded by their friends and family, the mad dash to the altar on New Year’s Eve is in full swing. With a house to remodel, a wedding to plan, and new opportunities and challenges around every corner, Caleb and Rachel, along with their friends, have no time to waste... -
Raising Attabury by Staci Stallings
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDani Richardson is living the dream. A corporate lawyer pursuing the case that could make her whole career, married to the man of her dreams with a beautiful child to boot, Dani knows this is the life she’s always wanted. What she can’t quite figure out is why she is so desperately, quietly miserable... -
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My Little Gypsy by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere was no way love could ever exist between a Bishop and a Meyers. It was absolutely forbidden by both families. As far as Stephen Meyers was concerned, no one in the Bishop family would ever be good enough for his granddaughter. The Bishops were well aware of his feelings and his reputation, and they did everything they could to steer clear of him... -
A Time to Care by Juliette Duncan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey’ve tied the knot, but will their love last the distance? Wendy didn’t expect to find love again after losing her beloved husband of over 30 years to a heart attack, but after being swept off her feet by a silver-haired Texan cowboy she met in a Dublin hotel, their relationship bloomed, and she agreed to marry him... -
Back to Bank Street by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack to Bank Street is the ninth and final book in the bestselling Bank Street Stories series. We recommend that you read the stories in order, but they are all standalone romances.Ozzy Abramson had made a name for himself as a photographer. His specialty was portraiture, and he built beautiful scenes around the people he photographed... -
Surviving Broken by Beverly Preston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings~ Sometimes you have to go through hell to find your heaven ~ Most women have a wish list when it comes to what kind of man they want to date. JC Mathews used a strict set of guidelines as a safety net to keep herself out of trouble and out of love. On hiatus from the bright lights and speculative gazes of her career in the fashion industry, JC lets her guard down...only to the wrong man... -
Courting Emily by Amy Lillard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to Wells Landing, the close-knit Amish community in Oklahoma, where a hopeful young woman struggles to find true love while staying true to her faith. . . Emily Ebersol is the bishop's daughter, and everyone--including Emily--assumes she'll marry a faithful Amish man and live out her days within the community... -
Coming Home: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan, Lesley Ann McDaniel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Christian romance, Coming Home, is book 6 (and the last story) in the Home to Collingsworth series. Lily Collingsworth has been absent from her family home for almost three years. She has finally come to terms with the news that sent her running from her family and the man she was engaged to marry... -
Not Quickly Broken by L.N. Cronk
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhile romance has always been a strong part of each of the books in the series, Not Quickly Broken is the first novel written by L.N. Cronk to be actually classified as a "Romance" novel. Readers have known for a long time that Jordan and Charlotte were meant to be together, but that doesn't mean that things are going to be easy... -
The Harder They Fall by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMost of Shelby Kennedy's friends were either married or in serious relationships. Her younger brother was about to get engaged, and two of her younger cousins were already married—not that she was counting. In reality, she hadn't given those facts much thought. She didn't mind her life the way it was. Being single really seemed to suit her... -
Sparks & Embers by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAutumn Rains went to Lexington, Kentucky on a mission.This was no vacation.She had a very specific goal in mind.Autumn had done research and knew who she would encounter on the Tanner Farm.Photographs of the family were accessible on the internet, so she had an idea of what to expect when she arrived.Autumn was already aware that she would be meeting tall, handsome athletes on her trip... -
Treat You Better by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI was all wrapped up with putting my life back together when I first laid eyes on the man of my dreams. I had been completely focused on figuring out exactly who I was and learning how to be a single mother, so it was a shock to my system when I met this handsome stranger. He ignited feelings I had forgotten existed. My encounter with him was so brief, however, that I didn't even get his name... -
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Letters to Lincoln by Tracie Podger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat do you do when your husband dies unexpectedly? You write him a letter, of course. What do you do when someone answers that letter? Dani was mid-thirties when she found herself alone and without her soulmate. Coming to terms with her loss took all her strength and her voice. If Dani thought she’d experienced the worst life could throw at her, she was wrong... -
So Happy Together by Brooke St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDaniel Bishop was content with his life. He had grown quite comfortable in his daily routine. He enjoyed working as an instructor at Alpha Security and had no desire to be out in the field like the other bodyguards he trained. Everything was going smoothly until his little sister asked him to accompany her to a gymnastics meet in Florida... -
A Time to Treasure by Juliette Duncan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe lost her husband and misses him dearly. He lost his wife but is ready to move on... -
Daughters of Lancaster County by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe riveting story of a kidnapped Amish child is told through three bestselling novels set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Amish country. From the beginning, Naomi Fisher blames herself for the family's tragedy and journeys away from home to find a purpose for living... -
Home Away from Home by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis Christian romance, Home Away from Home, is book 2 in the Home to Collingsworth Series and continues the stories of the Collingsworth sisters and their struggles and triumphs as they deal with their faith, the bonds of family and love! Laurel Collingsworth-Davis thought she had everything she could ever want: a beautiful home, a fulfilling career, financial security and a devoted husband... -
White Locks by Rose B. Mashal
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen love knocked on Marie's door, she had a hard time denying her heart what it wanted. Especially after she'd found her black keys. Now Marie finally realizes that home is not where she was born, or where she'd lived all of her life. Home is where her Love is. It's time for her to follow her heart...
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