Penelope J Stokes

Four friends gathered in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. "Our dreams for the future," they whispered, placing tiny pieces of paper into a shimmering blue bottle. But that event happened in 1929, and it is decades later when local news reporter Brenna Delaney stumbles upon that bottle . . . and into the most meaningful story of her career. Life has taken those four girls' dreams of love, fame, and faith on a path fraught...

Vita Kirk is a travel writer who has never left her hometown. In fact, she rarely leaves her house. Due to deep wounds and bitter losses, Vita has chosen isolation over vulnerability. But when she stumbles across an antique chest in a hole-in-the-wall boutique, she discovers a puzzling link to her past and her physical surroundings mysteriously begin to change. Inscribed in the treasure chest are the words, "Love is the key that unlocks every portal." The...

Before Diedre McAlister's mother dies, she gives her daughter an old photograph and says: "Find yourself. Find your truth. Just don't expect it to be what you thought it would be." The truth will shake up Diedre's world, threaten lives, challenge her faith-and quite possibly save her life.

The Memory Book traces a young woman's journey back in time to discover the cause of her namesake's mysterious death. It is a search that will test her faith and the strength of her family bonds.

In 1944, when her father dies, Libba Coltrain discovers that he has lied to her about Link Winsom, the love of her life. Link did not die in the war. Although his legs are paralyzed, he is alive. Now Libba is determined to rely on faith and love to make a new life with Link. The couple's struggles are a moving testimony to the power of God's guidance, and narrator Ruth Ann Phimister captures their thoughts and prayers.

Without a Trace Bree thinks a plane crash took the lives of her husband and young son, but her son Davy survived the accident. Can she find him before it's too late? It's been months since the crash. K-9 search-and-rescue worker Bree Nicholls knows the chances of finding her husband and son in the vast wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula grow more remote by the day. But her heart and her faithful dog, Samson, demand she keep searching. Deep in...