The Innkeeper's Wife

By Lynda M. Wilson

I’m the innkeeper’s wife. My name is Hannah. Come with me. My husband says you can stay the night in our stable. It is a little way from the inn, but I think you will be all right there. Joseph looked at Mary and waited. “Yes, Joseph. We can’t stay here.” Suddenly her face tightened and she reached for Joseph’s hand. She put her head down and all she said was “Oh!” That was all I needed. I saw instantly that her husband, though he would have defended her at that moment with his very life, could not help her. His wife was in labor.

This original and stirring fictional account of the Christmas story introduces readers to Hannah, the innkeeper’s wife. The author takes a deeper look at what could have been as she allows us to view the Nativity through the eyes of the supposed midwife to Mary. Readers travel back with Hannah to the day when Mary and Joseph came to Bethlehem and forward to the miraculous account of when shepherds came and witnessed of angels. ~~ Amazon

These is my Words

By Nancy E. Turner

The classic adventure of one courageous woman's life and struggles in the Arizona Territories in the late nineteenth century . . . Winner of the Arizona Author Award and Finalist of the Willa Cather Literary Award.

"Jack and Sarah are as delicious a couple as Rhett and Scarlett. The three-hankie ending to their long love affair will definitely make you give a damn." ~~ USA Today

"Clear, at times lyrical prose . . . providing vivid, colorful characters and historically accurate backdrop." ~~ Washington Post

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon -- from child to determined young adult to loving mother -- she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring love with cavalry officer Captain Jack Elliot that gave her strength and purpose. ~~ back cover

Sarah, who longingly wants to be more beautiful, refined, and religious like her sister-in-law, just possesses too much grit and spitfire and can out shoot any man. Qualities needed and well used in surviving the rugged frontier. Indian raids are a constant fear and threat.

One serendipitous event of traveling on the wagon trek was the acquisition of a large stash of books which set Sarah on the path of learnin'. Secondly, was the watchful care of Captain Elliot -- a man so fierce one minute and so gentle the next. Sarah couldn't decide if was a scoundrel or gentleman.

Check out Nancy Turner's website to see the other two books in this saga.

The Undomestic Goddess

By Sopia Kinsella

Samantha Sweeting, the 29-year-old heroine of Kinsella's latest confection (after Shopaholic Sister), is on the verge of partnership at the prestigious London law firm Carter Spink—the Holy Grail of her entire workaholic life. But when she finds she has made a terrible, costly mistake just before the partnership decision, she's terrified of being fired. In a fog, she stumbles out of the building and onto the nearest train, which drops her in the countryside, where she wanders to a stately home. The nouveau riche lady of the house mistakes her for the new housekeeper—and Samantha is too astonished to correct her.

Numb and unable to face returning to London, Samantha tries to master the finer points of laundry, cooking and cleaning. She discovers that the slow life, her pompous but good-hearted employers and the attentions of the handsome gardener, Nathaniel, suit her just fine. But her past is hard to escape, and when she discovers a terrible secret about her firm—and when the media learns that the former legal star is scrubbing toilets for a living—her life becomes more complicated than ever. ~~ Amazon

Breaking Dawn

By Stephenie Meyer

"When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options."

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.

Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecendented events is about to unfold. ~~ front book flap

One Tattered Angel

By Blaine M. Yorgason

"Blaine, I think this little girl is our baby."

Little did Kathy Yorgason realize what those words would come to mean.

Charity Afton Yorgason was born with a brain. She had a brain stem which operated her autonomic nervous system and allowed her lungs and heart to work. But, her foster parents were told, she would use any of her senses. never experience joy or love, never feel pain or any other physical sensation. And she would most likely die before she was two years old. Blaine and Kathy's response was simple, "If she needs a home, we'll be happy to give it to her."

So Charity was adopted by the Yorgason family and the miracles began . . .