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From afar, Cimarron Creek seems like an idyllic town tucked in the Texas Hill Country. But when former schoolteacher Lydia Crawford steps onto its dusty streets in 1880, she finds a town with a deep-seated resentment of Northerners—like her. Lydia won't let that get her down, though. All will...

Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned...

Rome, AD 403. As a loyal daughter of the Visigoth tribe, Adelgard followed her father to war, hoping to win back her family’s approval. But after a clash with the Roman army, Adel is captured and sold to a gladiator school. Now she is the most famous gladiatrix in Rome, determined to keep the fickle love of the crowd and never again rely on anyone but herself for her own security. But beneath the fame lies a darkness and pain that holds her captive.

It’s 1771, and tensions run high in colonial North Carolina. Frontier preacher Robert Boothe has spent the last four years standing against unlawful taxes and government corruption. To his close-knit congregation, Robert is a courageous man of God who defends the truth. To his wife and young daughter, he’s a devoted protector who longs to shield them from the growing unrest. To the governor’s men, he’s a rebel who preaches a dangerous gospel of God-given freedom. No one sees the doubts he wrestles in his own heart.

It’s 1780, and North Carolina is a battleground. Backcountry scout Benjamin Woodbridge is guarding a Patriot camp when he sees the king’s men pursuing a civilian. Never one to stand by while someone is in trouble, Benjamin steps in to help the stranger and finds an unexpected ally. But the same British officer who targeted the stranger is also targeting Benjamin’s hometown.

Mourning her wayward brother’s death, Verity Wilde has turned her back on Williamsburg society, striving to live by her notion of true religion: to keep oneself unspotted from the world. But when she boards a ship to claim an indentured Scottish clerk, she’s unprepared to find another Scotsman, starved and gravely ill, left on deck untended. With scarcely more knowledge of the man than his name and place of origin—William Crockett of Skye—pity compels Verity to purchase his indenture too, meaning to provide the compassionate death denied him by the ship’s crew. Only he doesn’t die.

As a time-crosser, Ally lives in two worlds. In 1849, in an attempt to secure her family's future during the California Gold Rush, she finds herself penniless and stranded in San Francisco. Forced to take shelter in a dangerous boardinghouse owned by an infamous gang member, Ally is desperate to escape. But when she discovers that history has changed around her, and it now claims she will do something unthinkable, she must use her time-crossing knowledge to find answers.

Claire Roth sacrificed love for a life of comfort on Lake Toxaway—until the dam broke, and the lake washed down the side of the mountain. Fourteen years later, she longs to see the lake restored to its former glory even as the country faces hard economic times on the eve of the Great Depression.

Marcus Cassianus Varro has spent his life enforcing Rome’s peace with an iron hand. But Jerusalem during Passover is a tinderbox—and the arrival of a Galilean teacher known as Jesus strikes the match. Crowds roar His name. Priests whisper of blasphemy. Rome senses rebellion. And Marcus, ordered to hold the city together, finds himself watching a Man who defies every category he knows. Jesus speaks with quiet authority, moves with compassion, and carries a grief Marcus cannot explain.

Hannah Madison's life is comfortable, well-ordered, and safe. She knows what to expect. Including her mother's plans that Hannah marry Jamie Reed, the heir to the neighboring plantation. But her sheltered life is disrupted when she stumbles upon a seriously injured stranger in the Reeds' barn. He seems to need her help. As she nurses him back to health, Hannah is drawn to the handsome man with amnesia that she calls Adam.

Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutches of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's—widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons. When a marriage is forced upon this hapless pair—two people who couldn't dislike each other more—an avalanche isn't the only potential danger lurking amid the shadows of Calico Canyon. Will they make it out alive? Or end up killing each other in the process?

Gabe Talmadge languished in prison for ten years, convicted of a horrible crime. Now free, he's unable to find work in the midst of the Great Depression. In desperation, he returns home to Ransom, Idaho, hoping his uncaring father will give him food and shelter, if not love. But the prodigal...

He was a man of salt and storms, defined by a single night of cowardice. Simon Peter was never meant to be a hero. A simple fisherman from the mist-shrouded shores of Galilee, he was a man of impulsive passion and crushing failure. He is haunted by the scent of a charcoal fire and the echo of a rooster’s crow—the sensory scars of the night he denied the Man he called Lord. But the Master he failed has given him a terrifying gift: the Keys to a Kingdom that has no borders.

Lady Amanda Whitcombe dreamed of the untamed beauty of the American West from the moment Buffalo Bill’s Wild West dazzled her during the Queen’s Jubilee. But nothing could prepare her for the rugged wilderness of Yellowstone—or the man who would change her life forever. When Amanda is swept into the icy currents of a park river, game scout Isaiah Coltrane rescues her. Used to solitude and determined to avoid entanglements—especially with a woman as refined as Amanda—he’s eager to return her to civilization.

On the rugged Oregon coast in the early 1900s, a group of women's lives intertwine through their shared pioneering spirit and the steadfast presence of Mary Gerritse. Struggling with her daughter Belle's desire to live with her grandparents, Mary discovers her own mother facing illness and her father hiring a caretaker with a troubled past. Despite tensions, Mary leaves Belle with her grandparents, feeling guilt and resentment. When past secrets bubble over into troubles in the present, Mary's identity is shaken.

Annaliese Merriweather has been appointed the temporary headmistress of the Merriweather Academy for Young Ladies while her sister is on her honeymoon, but she doesn't feel cut out for the role. Especially after she loses two of her most troublesome students during an outing to a county fair and...

Freedom is a choice. Love is a battle. Both demand a price. Karin Krejikova receives unthinkable news—her husband, famed Hussite fighter Pavel Krejik has vanished. The news is delivered by someone from her past. Someone she believed dead–her former betrothed. The disgraced Lukas Vitek may never again breathe air as a free man. But his family’s appeals culminate in a plan to wed his childhood friend Anicka Vorisek. Passed over by other suitors, she has become a burden on her family. Stepan puts his honor on the line to see his former friend rescued.

You know the biblical story of Daniel. But you’ve never experienced it like this. A breathtaking supernatural epic adventure of one of the most beloved heroes of the faith—retold with biblical and historical fidelity. Daniel is young, sharp, full of faith, and newly captive to King Nebuchadnezzar. But Babylon doesn’t want Daniel’s life—it wants his allegiance. In the House of the Tablet, he’s trained to speak the empire’s language and learn its “wisdom,” along with fellow captive Jews, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

The Apostle to the ApostlesThe Fragrance of the Broken JarOne man called her by name and changed the world. Now, she must carry His fire into the heart of the wilderness. Jerusalem is a powder keg. The tomb is empty, the King has ascended, and a terrifying new era has dawned. For Mary Magdalene, the "Great Commission" is not a distant command but a desperate, daily reality. As the shadows of Roman iron and Temple politics close in, the woman who was the first to see the Risen Lord finds herself at the center of a storm that threatens to scatter the faithful to the ends of the earth.

This novel chronicles the life of Martin Luther, providing historical facts and deep insights into his reformation. Whether the events of his lifetime ultimately influenced the Holocaust is left for the listener to decide.