Among a group of families leaving Bliss Creek to establish a new community in Missouri is Bethel Graber, a beautiful young woman with a passion for teaching. But after being disabled in a terrible accident, overseeing a classroom is out of the question. Bethel begins physical therapy, determined to make a fresh start. That won't be easy in the town of New Hope, where the locals seem anything but eager to welcome their new Amish neighbors.

The American humorist's classic novel depicting human nature under slavery. At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth century mystery, reversed identities,...

Three Irish immigrant children are sent to Missouri aboard an orphan train. Despite eight-year-old Maelle's desperate attempts to keep her siblings together, each child is taken by a different family. Maelle vows she will reunite them.

Blackmailed by a powerful businesswoman to help dispose of a dead body, Stella Hardesty is implicated in the woman's subsequent disappearance and travels to Kansas City for answers, only to discover a series of killings tied to a corrupt judge.

When a woman's body is unearthed at the demolition derby track, Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged women, and her former client Chrissy Shaw start snooping around their Missouri town in an effort to prove that gentle Neb Donovan cannot be the woman's murderer.

"A dusty fragment of a town in an Ozark valley hides a portal to the fourth dimension. Only a few Cherokee elders know where the entrance is and none of them have ever given the secret away. Now a government agent named Jake has accidentally found his way into the fourth dimension."--

Can Shayla and Link overcome society's view of their differences and find true love? Is there hope of changing the sometimes-ugly world around them into something better for them all?

Since her husband of forty-five years passed away on Christmas Eve, Laura Kauffman tries to keep herself busy with her nine children, fifty-two grandchildren, and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. But what does God expect her to do with her days now? Why leave her to carry on alone? When a friend suffers complications during childbirth and needs someone to help care for her newborn twins and three older children, their great-grandfather, Zechariah...

The mother of ten and a widow of seven years, Mary Katherine is always willing to step in and help her friends around her Amish community. Now that her last child is married, she pours her abundant creative spirit into writing stories, and dreams of opening a bookstore. The church elders want her to work in an Amish-owned store instead. When an English stranger breaks into her house to make himself a sandwich one autumn night, Mary Katherine turns...