Country music star Tess McPhail returns to her small home town to help care for her ailing mother and discovers that her fame carries no weight with her family or with the good-looking man next door.

Bess Curran, forty, is an interior designer in the Minneapolis, St. Paul area, still lonely and bitter after her traumatic divorce six years earlier. Her adult daughter, Lisa, anxious for her parents to reconcile, arranges a surprise dinner meeting where she informs them that she is pregnant and about to marry. Bess and former husband Michael, who left her for another woman, who, in turn, has just left him, can barely control their mutual animosity...

orna Barnett and Jens Harken are separated by a rigid caste system in turn of the century St. Paul. When Jens offers to design and build a boat to help his employer win a regatta, they are drawn together. The repercussions of their passion lead to scandel.

A novel that strikes a universal chord in all of us and asks: Are there sins of the heart beyond forgiving? When a new student transfers to principal Tom Gardner' s school, Tom instantly recognizes that this teenager is the son he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand years before. Raised by an adoring and fiercely independent mother who never revealed the name of his biological father, Kent is a fine young man. But his very...

When a recently widowed woman returns to her home town, will resuming a love affair with a high-school sweetheart bring back her joy? Shattered by the loss of her husband, Maggie struggled each day to put her grief behind her- to face life again and to be there for her teenaged daughter. When she returned to her Wisconsin hometown, she never expected to feel a spark of longing for her old high school sweetheart. Eric's marriage to a career-driven...

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer offers a story about falling in love, and finding the courage to follow your dreams . . . Lee Walker knows it won't be easy to start a new life in a new city. But she is on a mission: to prove to everyone, and to herself, that she can make it here, working in the masculine world of the construction industry. When contracting rival Sam Brown offers her a job, Lee is stunned and a little wary. Sam's...

The classic New York Times bestseller. Lee Reston has a fulfilling life imbued with the love of her three wonderful children. Then a shattering event-the loss of her oldest son, Greg-tears her world apart. In her anguish, she turns to police officer Christopher Lallek, Greg's best friend. Their shared mourning develops into friendship, and then something deeper. But life is never simple. The family that was once the core of her existence becomes...

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beautiful and captivating novels-a powerful story of the human heart you will never forget . . . Five long years ago, Laura Dalton stood on the bleak Nantucket shore waiting for her beloved husband Rye to return-until the day she learned his ship was lost at sea. Now, Laura's lonely heart has found solace in Dan, Rye's closest friend. Dan has been a beacon of light in her...

When Sarah Merritt arrives in Dakota Territory in 1876, she steps off the dusty Cheyenne stagecoach determined to start this ramshackle gold-rush town's first newspaper. In Deadwood, her runaway younger sister, Addie, is living and working as domestic help at Mrs. Hossiter's boardinghouse, according to her letters. Five years after Addie's flight from home, Sarah is carrying the sad news that their one remaining parent, newspaper publisher Isaac Merritt,...