Grace Livingston Hill

"Once when Revel Radcliffe was young and troubled by his widowed father's plans to remarry, he fled into the woods and met a young girl who was out picking wildflowers. Her words that day comforted him in his distress and introduced him to a lasting faith. Now as a man facing an uncertain future, he remembers that girl, who again helps him summon the courage to face a new day.".

Former classmates Keith Morrell and Daphne Deane meet again when he comes to check his family's deserted house. But their lives-his full of wealth and society; hers focused on faith and simplicity-couldn't be more different. Despite his engagement to another woman, they are drawn to each other in friendship, and Daphne finds herself pulled into a mystery at the old Morrell home.

Three weddings and the promise of a fourth. McRae Silverthorn and her brother Lincoln grew up in a close circle of friends, and now that they are all out of college those friends are starting to settle down into marriages. It starts as Rae and Link attend Sydney Hollis's wedding before she moves across country to California. All their friends attend, including the annoying Minnie Lazarelle and a mysterious stranger. As tensions rise, can Rae and Link...

The Challenger family pulls together when faced with desperate times. Father has been hospitalized for a long time, and money is hard to come by in the 1930s. Mother takes to her bed while Phyllis tries to manage her siblings and their income, but they may default on rent and lose their home in the middle of winter. . .unless a miracle happens. Can the Challengers hold on long enough to see an end to their troubles?

After two years with her only living relative, Astra Everson is ready to return to the town of her childhood and live on her own. But she finds it necessary to sneak away from her cousin's control while the family is away. A chance encounter on the train brings Charles Cameron into her life just in time for Christmas. He helps her get reestablished in town, but he lacks the faith that is so important to Astra. Up against scheming sisters and unscrupulous...

One rose changes a young woman's solitary life forever. After setting out on her own, Marion Warren is overcome with drab routine. Her solution: buy a season ticket to the symphony. But to Marion's surprise, each night she finds a mysterious crimson rose-and no sign of who left it. Then wealthy Jefferson Lyman whisks into Marion's already up-turned world, bringing with him socialite Isabel Cresson. Jefferson sets out to win Marion's heart...but Isabel's...

Five separate times Miranda Griscom has rejected wealthy Mr. Whitney's proposal of marriage, content in her role as housekeeper and nanny for the Spaffords. The community thinks her daft to refuse such a man, but they don't know that her heart belongs to the town's black sheep who, when accused of murder twelve years ago, she helped to escape. When she learns he has been living in Oregon Territory, can she hope to get word to him that his name has...

There is a war raging in Europe-and on the home front. A top secret weapon is being fashioned that could end the war quickly, and several people want to get their hands on it. John Sargent is being pressured to steal the blueprints, as unscrupulous men use his interest in wealthy socialite Lisle Kingsley to coerce him. Would they go so far as to kidnap Lisle in order to get what they want? Will John remain strong in the face of evil to save his country-and...