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A magnificent 150-year saga of a musical Southern family featuring barn dances, medicine shows, the Grand Ole Opry, and the evolution of country music from hymns to rockabilly.

On Agate Hill is set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to1927, and also in the present. The novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly Petree, an open-hearted and headstrong young Southern woman. The novel is framed with the letters and notes of a contemporary woman who seems almost a reincarnation of Molly herself.

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

Arriving at the deserted castle and village of Nicholas Bayard, the warlord husband she has never met, Lady Eleanor is confronted by Bayard, who hides his identity from her, believing he has no place in his world for a wife.

A spirited young woman, Kit Weston has lost her southern home and family in the war. Baron Cain, a northerner, now owns her beloved plantation Risen Glory. Kit would like to murder him. But since she is an orphan, much to her horror, he is appointed as her guardian.

It is World War II, and Nazi soldiers have been brought fo Fort Robinson as prisoners of war. The town, already heartworn from the loss of so many men, is divided in their feelings about the prisoners. CJ, now all grown up and running a horse farm--but still unmarried--uses prisoners as laborers. Josephine falls secretly in love with a German POW, but cannot dare reveal their relationship. Helen's husband returns from the war wounded, only to find his battles have just begun. Somehow, the community must come together in the faith of a God who loves unconditionally.

Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.

Before the war, Rosewood Plantation is large and prosperous. During the war years, women and slaves struggle to keep it running. But in the bloody days following the Northern victory, a marauding band of Union soldiers ravages Rosewood. Katie, the master's young daughter, and Mayme, a slave girl, are the only survivors of the carnage. Now the tho have only each other--and their shared faith in God--to rely on.

During World War II, many of the young men of Haven, Pennsylvania are fighting in Europe. Unable to serve due to an earlier car accident, Andy Gilbert must stay at home and keep his job as a telegram delivery boy, bringing news of the dead to their families. Living alone and shunned by those who were once his friends, Andy soon becomes discouraged.

When winsome socialite Mia Stanley insists on researching downtrodden seaman's wives on the docks of Philadelphia for the magazine she works for, she uncovers a scheme that puts her own life in danger.