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(0)Susan Evans McCloud
In the early years it had been: 'You are too young to understand, dear, and it is yet too painful for me to discuss, Isabel. Someday, when you are grown.' Isabel waited. At length the excuse became altered, turning back upon itself. 'That was all so long ago, Isabel. Why talk of the past now? Both your parents are gone. Dragging them out of the shadows and dusting off their memories won't bring them back again.' At this point, Aunt Gwen would wrinkle
...Ravenwood, a beautiful Scottish estate, is the setting for an intriguing story of adventure, danger, and romance that spans several generations. Here is the story of three women whose love for their native Scotland—a devotion tested through times of political unrest and the horrors of war—is matched only by their love for their men and their families.
Anne, in love with one man but finding herself compelled to marry another twice
...Set in Victorian England, it is the story of Percy Graham and his younger brothers and sisters. Orphaned, the Graham children find themselves torn apart as each is adopted and goes to live with a new family. Percy, who is anguished over his family's separation vows to one day reunite them.
Percy finds that his promise is not as easy to keep as he might have imagined. As he comes to understand and love his own adopted family, he also comes to
...There are two men in this French girl's life at Brigham Young University: Emory Charles Tuckett III, a lady-killer from a wealthy Southern family, and Hans Bekker, the young German professor, whose past is wrapped in mystery. Actually, there is one more: the sinister face in the shadows that she cannot place, until . . .
Arriving on campus, Augustine surprisingly finds herself drawn into the fun-loving Emory's orbit. To the quiet girl from a
...Esther, Josie, Phoebe, Tillie and Georgie will quickly endear themselves to readers of Palmyra, the latest novel from author Susan Evans McCloud. Set in the late 1820s and early 1830s, this novel centers around the lives of these five vibrant young girls, who find themselves working out their heartaches and shaping their lives in the midst of a community that is reacting to the teachings of a young Joseph Smith and his new religion.
Told
...Sarah, just in the bloom of young womanhood, has already learned much about love and hatred. She has learned that dreams and plans can quickly die and be buried with those who dream them; she has felt the sting of hatred and violence flung against her because of her faith. Dare she think about love? Will she ever be ready to love again? In this gripping, fast-paced story a man and woman, caught between loves and hates that shaped the late Missouri
...7) Throstleford
When two American Missionaries visit the English village of Throstleford in the early 1840s, they forever change the life of the village — and of the villagers. Esther Grey and her father, the local vicar, are the first to receive copies of the Book of Mormon. Both recognize truth in the book, but recoil from the challenges this knowledge brings. Esther knows that accepting the message would be a betrayal of her dear father. Yet how can she
...These delightful books explore the lives of young girls and their families in the early days of the Church. Touching and entertaining, these books are a must for young readers.
9) New friends
12) The Angels Sing
These delightful books explore the lives of young girls and their families in the early days of the Church. Touching and entertaining, these books are a must for young readers.
A year ago I never would have dreamed that this moment could happen. Why, it has been little more than six months since I returned from my visit to Georgie in this place and discovered that my husband—who had forbidden me to touch it—had read Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon from cover to cover and was in his heart converted. This I had not expected. He had shown no previous interest, while I had. Perhaps if Georgie had not been so
...15) Last Suspect
Callum MacGregor is on the case again! A London businessman has been murdered, and Inspector MacGregor must act quickly to save the man's nine-year-old daughter, Rosetti, from the same fate. With a fortune at stake, a number of suspects, an uncooperative police department, and a second murder, MacGregor faces the challenge of his career.
In an interesting twist that fans of Susan Evans McCloud will love, the Inspector finds true love from an
...What's in a legacy? A great deal, in the case of this engrossing contemporary novel, for an ancestor's old will dramatically changes the lives of the characters portrayed.
To satisfy both the will's requirements and his own inexplicable urgings, Andrew Buchanan temporarily leaves his native Scotland to search in America for long-lost relatives. If these can be found by a certain date, they will inherit a sizable fortune under the will. Looking
...We are the people of Lehi, who left the land of Jerusalem at Jehovah's command. We have a story, a story most strange and marvelous. I am Neferure. I am not a prophetess or a dreamer of dreams, but I am a weaver of words. I tell what I saw with my own eyes, and I write what the Spirit whispered to my listening heart.
So begins the saga of Neferure, a woman whose courageous spirit and indomitable will must sustain her as her people struggle
...18) Beloved Stranger
Salt Lake City? She hadn't studied the map, but it must be two thousand miles. Two thousand miles from home and she knew not one soul there. What ghosts would she find? That's what she was going for, really, to discover what was left of the man she called Father but had not set eyes on for sixteen years - to discover what things a dead man might leave behind him, other than funds carefully protected to support a daughter's talent.
Millie turned angrily to Nicholas. "You entice innocent women to leave their homes and the beliefs of their fathers, to give up all that they have and go to some wretched place in the middle of nowhere—"
Nicholas put his hand on her arm as if to stop her. "Miss Cooper, you do not understand." He was grieved.
"I understand! Far more than you realize."
What Millicent Cooper understands is that the Thatcher family,
..."I'm so afraid I'll never see you again," she breathed.
"I'll come for you, Amanda—I give you my word!"
She had believed him, and she had waited. But now the tick of the delicate gold watch he had thrust into her palm those seven years ago seemed to mock his very words. Perhaps it was time to put childish hopes behind her, to get on with life. Jesse too was haunted—haunted by the soft blue eyes of his first love and by the vow he
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