Patricia Prentiss had nowhere to turn. John Worth had always been her friend and protected her from the advances of rich, spoiled Thereinto Belonging. But John has disappeared and she's being forced into a marriage with a man she can hardly stand. Then Thereinto arranges a gala party, setting the...
Alone in the city, Marion struggles to survive. Desperate to find a small bit of happiness, she impulsively spends some of her hard earned and terribly meager money on a season ticket to the symphony. On the night of the second concert, something wonderful happens. There, on Marion's seat in the...
Grace Livingston Hill gives us a Cinderella-type heroine to sympathize with in part two of the Miranda trilogy. Day after day Phoebe is subjected to living as a servant in her brother's home, piked on by her hateful sister-in-law, and forced to endure matchmaking schemes influenced by greed. Marr...
The Challengers are a family caught up in struggles that threaten to tear their world apart. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the p...
On the eve of her brilliant society wedding, beautiful Maris must face the true meaning of love. Beautiful young Maris Mayberry is ecstatic over her upcoming marriage to wealthy Tilford Thorpe. Then disaster strikes - Maris's precious mother collapses and becomes dangerously ill. Maris turns to ...
When lovely Cornelia Copley's mother becomes ill, Cornelia must leave her beloved college and return home to care for her family. But things at home have changed a great deal. Her family is living in near poverty, in a shabby and dismal little house. And her younger brother has become rebellious ...
Shocked by the news of his father's plans to remarry, young Revel Radcliffe flees to the woods he loves, hoping that the tranquility will bring peace to his troubled soul. But his sorrowful contemplation is disturbed by the appearance of a lovely young woman who has come to the woods to pick flow...
If there was one thing Constance Wetherill would not accept, it was pity. So when her family lost their fortune, she slipped away from town, determined to start a new life. And she succeeded wonderfully! Not only did she establish a thriving business, she discovered the wonder of service to Chris...
Marjorie Wetherill had always known she was an adopted child; her adoptive parents, the Wetherills, whom Marjorie loved deeply, had made no secret of it. Their death leaves Marjorie well provided for but terribly lonely. Soon she is consumed with the desire to find the family she has never known....
Pretty, petite Margaret Roselle is overjoyed when Barney Vance returns safely from war. Then Barney tells her that their friend "Stormy" Applegate is missing behind enemy lines--and that he has decided to return to enemy territory to find him! Faced with the reality of the danger in Barney's chos...
Seeing a woman's influence is very much needed in her father and brothers' household, Elsie leaves the comfortable home of her wealthy uncle where she has lived for the five years since her mother's death.
Lynette had waited all her life for one man. But now that they are together, something is terribly wrong. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people fac...
Betty Thornton knew what she wanted, and it wasn't her father's boring lifestyle. So when Betty's father insists on moving the family to a farm in Vermont, she turns to dashing Dudley Weston--and his promises of excitement and marriage--as the answer to her problems. Then, through a terrifying ch...
Fraley's dear mother has just dies and left Fraley utterly alone in a hostile world. She sets off on a dangerous adventure, unsure of what lies ahead. Her only comforts are the faith her mother shared with her and the family Bible. Along the way, Fraley meets a young man who is on an adventure of...
Jane Scarlett is alone. She has no family, no friends, and no home. Destitute, living in a dingy back room in a boarding house, Jane struggles to survive—and to find hope. Then, through a set of unexpected circumstances, she meets Audrey Havenner and gradually begins to believe that life isn't as...
Astra Everson, traveling alone on a gloomy train, could only wonder about her uncertain future. Can she make a new life for herself in the home she once shared with her father? What will her meddlesome cousins do when they find she has fled their control to find independence?Suddenly Astra is cal...
On a country estate, young McRae finds the strength and courage to break through tradition and claim the man she loves. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs...
Only minutes before Sherrill is to marry Carter, the man of her dreams, she discovers him in the arms of another woman. When Sherrill finds that the other woman is desperately in love with Carter, she decides the wedding must go on--with the other woman as the bride!Later, as Sherrill arrives at ...
In A Girl to Come Home To, Rodney Graeme is a hero returning home. Everyone comes to greet him...including Jessica, the woman who left him for a richer man. Jessica's husband wants to use his wife--and Rodney's feelings for her--to his own advantage. Suddenly Rodney finds himself entangled in an ...
Rainbow CottageGrace L HillThere are 2 huge reasons why i really like reading Grace's books. One I mentioned in all my reviews-- it is the spiritual application that is so greatly described and so vivid that you want to be there and experience it yourself.The second reason is that she lived and w...
Daphne Deane is living a quiet life with her parents and family when Keith Morrell, who has just inherited the estate next-door, comes to town to sell. But he finds himself finding God, changing his ways, and going back to the values his parents instilled in him.
He saved her life, then grew to love her. But can Dr. Sterling discover what is forcing his beautiful patient to keep her identity a secret?.
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The beloved author of more than one hundred wholesome and heart-warming inspirational romance novels, Grace Livingston Hill weaves a story of a soldier who is torn between the love of two women. Both are beautiful yet very different and the difficult decision he must make will have extraordinary ...
The first time beautiful, wealthy Lisle Kingsley sees John Sargent, she knows she loves him. Can the handsome John Sargent overcome grave danger and deceit to save his country--and the woman he loves?
Grace Livingston Hill's love for humankind shines through her character's journey to manhood. Mickey, a young newsboy, saves the life of heiress Starr Endicott by taking a gunman's bullet himself. To show his gratitude, Starr's father sends the boy off to school where he studies law. Then he retu...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitme...
1926. The book begins: Romayne Ransom walked through the station and out to the street door looking for a taxi. There were usually three or four in sight. What had become of them all. She set down her shiny suitcase and tapped the little new suede slipper toe impatiently while she waited, thinkin...
Hazel Winship, a lovely, generous young woman, longed to reach out to someone less fortunate and offer some sort of solace and encouragement. And so it was, on a sudden whim, that she began sending gifts and letters to the unknown "Christie Bailey," who lived in Florida. But the road of good inte...
Amorelle is suddenly alone in the world when a handsome young man makes a proposal she cannot refuse. Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced w...
Will lovely Jane Arleth leave behind her old-fashioned waysand handsome John Sherwoodto marry a man of great wealth? Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs ...
Sylvia Garland bears a heavy burden as she holds her family together during the trials of her brother's ill-fated marriage to Florimel--a woman set on stealing the family inheritance.
Duskin finds himself on the fine line between "good business" and "godliness." Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the problems of lif...
Miriam Winthrop is ready to fight fire with fire. Her marriage vows were made to be kept, not empty words that now were echoing from room to room in her lonely home. Her husband, Claude, has become infatuated with another woman. To win his heart back again, Miriam must become all that "the other ...
A sparkle came to her face as she remembered that it was a new day and there would be the possibility of another flower waiting for her. With eagerness she sat up in her bed and reached out for the flowers, drawing a deep breath of their fragrance. Then suddenly memory came on the breath of perfu...
Cornelia was very happy seeing him at it, whether a fireplace ever resulted or not. It was enough that he was interested and eager over it. And while she was waiting for her irons to heat, she sat down and wrote a bright little letter to her mother, telling how Carey was helping her put the house...
asked Harley at last. “I should like to be a society. I couldn’t do anything of course, but it would be nice to say I belonged to something like other boys. You said there were two kinds of members, didn’t you? What are they? Tell me again. Why couldn’t I be one of that other kind?” &...
A Telegram And A Flight II. The Backwoods Cousin III. A Wonderful Day IV. Aunt Crete Transformed V. Luella And Her Mother Are Mystified VI. An Embarrassing Meeting VII. Luella's Humiliation VIII. Aunt Crete's Partnership List of Illustrations “She Watched Luella's Dismayed Face With Growing Ala...
said Ellen Amelia as she passed her plate for some more cabbage. “I wouldn't have thought she was that kind. She ain't quite like any girls I ever read of either, for she don't seem proud one bit, though she does wear such lovely clothes. She had the cutest little pin on her collar, a wreath of g...
She went up to the leader’s seat by the little table with a feeling that she one friend in the room at least. It was new to look to her brother for anything, and the last thing that was to be expected from his was encouragement. Could it be possible that he had learned this from her own helpful e...
and took the room she had seen the day before. It had seemed to her a possible abiding place, at least for a few days until she could get her bearings and look about a bit. But she did not take it permanently, although the landlady tried to make her do so. “You know there’s talk we’re going to ha...
Young Harrington had offered to take her in the car, in fact had been most assiduous in pressing the drive upon her, but his mother had succeeded in sidetracking him. Most apologetically, when she heard what was going on, she interrupted. “I’m so sorry, Harrington, but I promised Amelie you would...
At last he had been restored to consciousness and was resting quietly, watched over by the doctor and a hastily summoned nurse. Janet, after a quick consultation with Eden, and afterward with the cook and the chambermaid, hastily transformed the servants' dining room into a comfortable hospital b...
Of course they all slept later than usual, but habit is a funny thing, and the sunlight in a big, quiet room is a wonderful alarm clock. Gloria awoke first and lay quiet, thinking how happy she was that Vanna was safely back, wasting a few minutes of anger against the man who had made all the tro...
All the impossibility of the situation suddenly came upon them both, and made them silent and embarrassed. Stephen took on his sulky look, which ill became him, while he stumbled over the moonbeams that followed him when he opened the door, and lighted the wicked little oi...
It had been most casual in its early stages. Frank’s room was on the Fairchild side of the house, and he had a good view from his window of the Fairchild grounds. He happened to be out in his own grounds searching for a tennis ball that he had been bouncing back and forth against the side of the ...
He looked up at the flabby Mortie triumphantly. He was needed here to shelter Alice from these half-drunken people. Poor little Alice! She had never been half taught. He would get her away from them presently and bring her home and try to dissuade her from this sort of thing. He remembered their ...
When he spoke at all he was so disagreeable that presently the rest refrained from speaking to him any more than they could help. At the first opportunity to quench their thirst, which by the time they had driven for an hour had become almost unbearable, the entire party indulged freely, Farwell ...
“Oh, I’m sorry you had to wait,” she said, quite formally. “Did you want to see me for something important, Victor? If you had told me you were coming, I would have tried to be home earlier.” Victor eyed her with a scowl. “Oh, yes? You certainly would not! You’ve avoided me on every occasion for ...
In vain she looked into the backseat and turned on her lights to search for her former attendants, but they were nowhere to be seen. In quite a dignified, lofty tone she called their names: “Mr. Emberly! Mr. Creeber! Where are you?” But repeated calls, varying from annoyance to actual anger, and ...
A new young man had appeared on the scene at the house party, and she was trying him out. Also it was true that she hadn’t been up very long, for the festivities of the night before had lasted far into the morning, ending with scrambled eggs for everybody, and they had slept late as Alan had know...
Mothers kept their young daughters in after dark unless they were protected by some trusty mankind, and women avoided the upper trolley that necessitated a short walk through a lonely wood. One and all pitched upon this spot as the place where Emily Dillon had met her fate. The streams and ponds ...
For a time indeed she was tormented lest she had left something undone or unsaid about her going away. Had she done this thing in a way that would have pleased her mother and father? But as the train went on by new ways across an enchanting country, she forgot her unpleasant experiences of Warloc...
Sometimes it seemed to Euphemia as if Eleanor felt that no one worthwhile had ever been married before. Eleanor was determined to have the very best of everything, and plenty of it. Euphemia overheard her father telling her mother that things at the office were in a very bad mix-up and money was ...
She observed the vast emptiness, with purpling mountains and limitless stretches of multicolored ground arched by a dome of sky, higher and wider and more dazzling than her stern New Hampshire soul ever conceived. And she turned panic-stricken back to the train already moving away from the statio...
He was aghast! He simply could not take this extraordinary request seriously. It seemed as if he must somehow get back to his former companions and tell them the joke. They wanted him to teach a Sunday school class of young ladies! Was ever anything more terribly ludicrous in all the world?But he...
He was not yet sure whether he would go to the party, but he would at least be ready with an offering should the fates, when the time arrived, seem propitious.Sooner than he had expected the can was filled, and he lay back on the sweet-smelling turf of the meadow and gazed up at the blue of the s...
“Well,” she said, looking sharply at George, “where is my lawyer? I thought I told you to bring him with you. Where is he?” The boy braced up bravely and looked at his mother courageously in the eye, a slightly apologetic smile on his lips. “Sorry, Mother,” he said courteously, “so far as I can f...
"You did come back this morning!" he shouted. "I said you would, but Gillian said you couldn't. She said you had gone to visit somebody and you would have to go to church with them, even if you didn't want to stay. But you came! You did come back. Didn't they want you to stay and go to church wit...
“Say, folks, I’m going, all right,” she declared seriously, “but I want you to do one thing for me. Please don’t tell anybody yet—not a soul, until I give you permission.” Keith wheeled around from the door, his hat in his hand. “What’s all this, little sister? You’re not trying to slide out of i...
Now what was going to happen? Another foreclosing trip? Because he simply wouldn’t do it. If that was the kind of thing they were going to do with him every little while, nothing doing! There certainly were other jobs in the city, and there was no reason why he couldn’t find one if he made a busi...
She marveled daily over the spirit of sacrifice that could make the rising young doctor with such life and prospects before him deliberately go to that far-off land to do what any common doctor might do. It was again that same old problem that she had puzzled over at Hillcroft, what strange power...
He told Marcia in the evening when he came home from the office. He told her as he would have told his clerk. It meant nothing to him but an annoyance that he had to start out in the early winter, leave his business in other’s hands for an indefinite period, and go among strangers. He did not see...
The chambermaid was not well, and Molly had been put back in her work a good deal, so that it was late and she was in a hurry. She thumped the water pitchers down hard, slammed the doors, and punched the pillows into shape with extra vigor on this account, but, suddenly, in the midst of making up...
It was half past nine, and there would just be time before she was summoned to Mrs. Whitney to write a letter home to the dear aunts who would be watching and waiting hourly for the first word from her. Could she do it without showing so much as a hint of the excitement of the morning? Would she ...
“Have the boys come down for breakfast yet, Mother?” she asked eagerly. “Because I’ve brought some simply wonderful fruit, and I know they will enjoy it.” “No, they are not down yet. I thought they ought to sleep a little while, as long as they seem to want to, now that they are at home and there...
It was not a room where she had ever slept before on any of her former visits to her father’s home. Charmian had always relegated her to one of the smallest guest rooms on the third floor back whenever she had happened to be in that house for a day or two en route to some other parking place. Thi...
Its mother declared there was no longer any need for them to be at the shore, and besides, she felt she ought to be at home again and be watching that her husband was eating his meals all right. There was one other time when she was away that he went entirely without lunches. Didn’t bother to put...
It enclosed papers that she was to fill out and sign in the presence of a competent witness, establishing her identity. It suggested that she go to the bank through which they had first made contact with her, and have the papers made out in legal form. Then on her coming twenty-first birthday the...
Challenger started out to the corner drugstore where there was a telephone booth. She shivered as she went down the badly paved street, stepping carefully because the bricks were so uneven. The sunshine was bright and warmer than yesterday, but she felt cold to the bone an...