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October Brown, an African-American teacher at a private school in Kansas, becomes pregnant by the father of a student and returns home to Ohio, where she and her sister were raised by their aunts after their father killed their mother 20 years before. Confused and unhappy, October gives the baby to her sister and goes back to teaching. Then she regrets her decision.

On a train bound for Nalgitas, New Mexico, hookhouse proprietor Addie French encounters Emma Roby, a prim and proper lady seeking a new life with a man she's never met. But when they reach Nalgitas, all that awaits the bride-to-be is a "Dear Emma" note left with the stationmaster. Alone and forlorn, Emma seeks lodging at Addie's Chili Queen, a bordello she assumes is a bording house. At first, the residents enjoy the delicious irony of Emma's naïveté. And yet as the yarn unravels, it's unclear who will have the last laugh.

In this charming tale of second chances, renewed faith, and forgiveness, a captivating heirloom triggers inexplicable changes.

For six years, Reginald Brooks--slick Disney marketing VP--has pulled off the perfect scam. He has juggled two families without the other one finding out. He stays two weeks in Miami with his wife and two young adult daughters and the next two weeks in Orlando with his trophy mistress and their young daughter. But when the charade unravels, it's clear there's been a lot more pretending than anyone realized. Soon wide-ranging consequences begin to take their toll.

Terrell has asked her sister Ella to conceal Terrell's adulterous affair from the family. When Terrell dies in a plane crash just hours later en route to meet her lover, the lie takes on a life of its own, and Ella eventually finds herself falling in love with Rufus, Terrell's grieving spouse.

A confused and lonely ten-year-old girl, Marsha, a witness to her siblings' deviant behavior, her father's affair, and her mother's flirtation with the new neighbor, produces the only lead in a case of sexual assault and murder.

Sarah Cain is a strictly modern woman living in Oregon and developing a burgeoning career in real estate. Her sister Ivy left to pursue a plain life in Amish country twelve years ago. When Ivy dies, Sarah is shocked to learn that she has been appointed guardian of her sister's five children.

After a series of bizarre events, ironworker Mick Brannigan finds himself knee-deep in laundry--and considering a retreat to his hopelessly littered kitchen. He soon learns important lessons from unlikely sources.

California's sunny coast is where carefree Brianna Stone's idyllic life is complicated by her bizarre new boss, her meddling mother-in-law, and her too-busy-to-believe husband. Reinventing herself with a dazzling wardrobe and flattering hairstyle, Bri tries to recapture her husband's attention before it's too late.

Bushwhacked and left to die in flames, rancher Larson Jennings is lovingly nurtured by a godly mountain couple. As his body slowly heals, he becomes spiritually transformed. But with his handsome features now scarred beyond recognition, Larson wonders if anyone can look beyond his grotesque burns to the better man he has become. Long presumed dead, he painfully limps home--to find his wife arm-and-arm with another man. As tears trickle down his disfigured face, Larson asks God to help him do what's best for his beloved Kathryn.