Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but her heart lies elsewhere. Expected to marry an up-and-coming banker from a respected family, Lucy fears she will be forced to abandon her charity work--and the classes she is secretly taking at the newly op...
My quest to find a feminist Inspirational romance continues to meet with little success. Sarah Cummings, a girl thrust into an orphanage after her parents die in a carriage accident, resents having to work as a housemaid for a 1896 Chicago wealthy family, and dreams of reinventing herself. Her dr...
He measured and calculated and sketched and spread wood samples around, evaluating the natural light. Eight days. Eight days since she fled the threat to her livelihood. Eight days since meeting the Beiler family and wondering about her own Byler family history. Eight days since she looked into t...
The third one. Fortunately, her father had already scraped the last of the mashed potatoes from the serving bowl. Rufus smiled blandly into the beam of Beth’s face.She sat on his right. On his left was Johanna, and across the table sat Essie. Their uniform hairstyle accentuated the similarities o...
Maura ran toward her, arms spread wide to stop Belle’s progress. “What happened?” Belle pushed against Maura’s restraint. “I was at the school cleaning out my desk. I heard gunshots.” Maura closed her arms firmly around her friend. “Belle…” “It’s John, isn’t it?” Maura sucked in her top lip. “I’m...
An oversized envelope contained assorted papers that may or may not be relevant to the day’s quest. He wanted to be prepared for any question.Inside the bank, Willem surveyed the lobby. A half-dozen people stood in lines to see the three tellers on duty, and around the perimeter of the room were ...
On the desk in front of her lay her attendance book, her grade book, and a stack of lesson plans. Soon she would divide the first graders into two groups, a smaller group who seemed on the path to independent reading and might even be ready for second-grade primers by February, and a larger group...
They all dated to the same effort. Yonnie’s father, uncle, and grandfathers all were among the men who built four meetinghouses clustered around the border that the two groups of Amish would share. As long as they used them on alternate Sundays, no conflict rose between the two groups, despite th...