Rose Donovan by Laurien Berenson

My name is Rose Donovan, and when I was eighteen I became a nun. I set aside all worldly concerns and possessions and dedicated my life to God. At the time I thought I was making the right choice. It never occurred to me that as a somewhat naïve, recent high school...

Maddy Montgomery by Valerie Burns *plus giveaway*

Hi. My name is Madison Montgomery, but everyone calls me Maddy. Until recently, my life was very different than it is today. As the only child of a navy admiral, I’ve traveled the world. My mom died when I was two years old, and The Admiral didn’t have the time or the...

Imani Banks by Cate Holahan

I get paid to listen to lies. It’s the downfall of my profession. Therapists can only help clients who reveal their deep, dirty secrets. Their failures. Their insecurities. Their misdeeds. But the desire to project one’s best self supersedes any aspiration to become...

Kinsley Henning by Nancy Hughes

Dear Readers— I need your advice! Put yourself in my place. We thought we had earned a peaceful existence after lovingly restoring an old stone farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. How could mortal danger find us, sandwiched between an Amish dairy farm and rental crop...

Annie Abbott by Jody Holford

If someone had told me, Annie Abbott, that I’d be living in a sleepy little town off the coast of Oregon in my dream house that isn’t actually my house, I wouldn’t have believed it. I also wouldn’t have thought I’d love it so much in Rainbow Falls. My parents asked me...

Delilah O’Leary by Mindy Quigley

Food is my life. It’s yours, too, whether you admit it or not. We’ve all got to gobble down three squares a day, plus snacks, so why settle for noshing on a rock-hard plum or cheese whose flavor is indistinguishable from the plastic film it’s wrapped in? Why not make...