The Quilt Chronicles Series by Stephanie Grace Whitson

Three women … an unlikely friendship … and a journey that proves prison walls can neither frustrate God’s plans nor keep love out. Jane is serving a ten-year sentence at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, even as she hides a startling secret. How will one caring physician help unravel the hidden meaning behind Jane’s courthouse steps quilt? Mamie told God she’d go anywhere, never dreaming He’d send her to nurture women the world had forgotten... moreThree women … an unlikely friendship … and a journey that proves prison walls can neither frustrate God’s plans nor keep love out. Jane is serving a ten-year sentence at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, even as she hides a startling secret. How will one caring physician help unravel the hidden meaning behind Jane’s courthouse steps quilt? Mamie told God she’d go anywhere, never dreaming He’d send her to nurture women the world had forgotten. While helping those around her, will she stubbornly keep a king guard at arm’s length? Ellen was never going to leave Kentucky, but then marriage led her to Nebraska as a prison warden’s wife. Can she reach past uncertainty and fear to find God’s purpose in it all? less

Juliana Sutton has it all: a successful and devoted husband, charities and church work to keep her fulfilled, and a dream home almost complete. But all is not as it seems. Cass Gregory, a man with his own secrets, is just a workman on the Suttons new man

Will discovering the truth hidden in the symbols on a treasured quilt bring brokenness or hope and healing? Emilie Rhodes’ newspaper editor father raised her to think for herself—until doing so leads Emilie to want to write “real news.” Fired by her father, a stubborn Emilie begins writing anonymously for the competition. When an assignment introduces her to Noah Shaw, “The Man of Many Voices,” Emilie falls in love... moreWill discovering the truth hidden in the symbols on a treasured quilt bring brokenness or hope and healing? Emilie Rhodes’ newspaper editor father raised her to think for herself—until doing so leads Emilie to want to write “real news.” Fired by her father, a stubborn Emilie begins writing anonymously for the competition. When an assignment introduces her to Noah Shaw, “The Man of Many Voices,” Emilie falls in love. How will her parents react to their daughter’s secrecy? And what about Noah’s mysterious past? Noah Shaw is a well-respected lecturer and dramatist, but he’s never felt that he belongs anywhere. Now that his profession has brought him to Nebraska, “The Man of Many Voices” is on a quest to find answers. Were the stories Grandma told about the symbols embroidered on a cherished quilt just stories or do they hide secrets about his past? Will finally unraveling the mystery bring brokenness or hope and healing? less