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The Ammonite capital of Rabbah stands defiant, the symbol of a nation determined to break Israel’s rise. Months under siege by David’s armies have ground the people down, but they fight on with desperate resolve.

Now that the Civil War is over, Jed Young has reconciled with his siblings, made peace with God, and is ready to settle down and start his new life. Somewhere out of the city. Somewhere quiet. Somewhere far, far away from women. Mary Pierce has a picture-perfect life with three beautiful daughters and a lumberjack husband who adores her. When tragedy alters the course of her life, Mary has to lean on God in deeper ways, learning to navigate her challenging new path. Unable to look away from the suffering of his friends, Jed steps in, taciturn and steady but clueless of social convention.

Great Possessions is a haunting work of biblical historical fiction told in the voice of the man history remembers only as the one who went away sorrowful. He was not born to ease. He built his life by discipline, restraint, and hard-won wisdom, turning a vulnerable household into one of standing, order, and wealth. He kept the law. He gave alms. He earned the respect of elders, servants, and neighbors alike. By every visible measure, he was a righteous man. But beneath the ordered rooms, sealed storehouses, and carefully guarded honor, another master had long been at work: fear.

SamsonA Biblical Legends NovelSet apart before his birth, Samson was chosen for a purpose. Strength flowed through him like fire—sudden, unstoppable, and feared by enemies across the land. Lions fell beneath his hands. Armies scattered before him. His name became legend. But calling does not protect a man from his own choices. Drawn by desire and blinded by pride, Samson slowly drifts from the vow that once defined him. Victory after victory hides a deeper truth: strength without obedience leads only to ruin.

A courageous young woman struggles to rise above her dirt-poor beginnings and outsmart a Nazi threat on U.S. soil during WWII in this thrilling Southern tale of bravery, love, and forgiveness. Sedalia, North Carolina, 1943. While war rages overseas, Laurette Lowe faces a more personal battle...

He only offered her passage to Alaska. But they end up fighting for something bigger along the way... Maggie McDougal is determined to save her family’s land after her parents’ sudden deaths. And if that means leaving the sandy shores of Lake Michigan and traveling across the country to Washington Territory in search of her brother so he can claim the land, then so be it. Anything is better than watching the land she loves fall into her uncle’s greedy, conniving hands. The trouble is, when the ship that her brother works on arrives in Bellingham, her brother isn’t on it.

Dr. Quinn meets Bridgerton in this new series from USA Today bestselling author Naomi Rawlings. Jonas Redding never wants to be a lawman again. He’s spent a decade as a US Marshal, wearing a tin star on his chest and chasing dangerous criminals across the great state of Texas. But when a case goes wrong, Jonas finds himself standing over two tombstones—his mother’s and his fiancée’s. Resolved to protect his sister from meeting the same fate, Jonas cuts off all communication with her, changes his name, and heads north to the vast, untamed Alaskan wilderness.

She's dreamed of being a doctor since she was a girl. Then he arrives and town and ruins everything... Kate Amos has always wanted to be a doctor. The problem is, there aren’t too many female doctors in 1886, and there are even fewer people who will let a woman doctor treat them. Fortunately for Kate, the only other doctor in the growing town of Juneau Alaska is drunk more than he’s sober, and he doesn’t know the first thing about medicine. So even though the townsfolk might not want a woman doctor to treat them, they don’t have much choice. Until Dr. Nathan Reid arrives in town.

Eine bitterkalte Winternacht. Ein römischer Soldat. Ein frierender Bettler. Und eine Entscheidung, die die Geschichte des Christentums prägte. Was bringt einen Elitesoldaten der kaiserlichen Garde dazu, seinen wertvollen Militärmantel zu zerteilen und die Hälfte einem Bettler zu schenken? Diese bewegende Szene markiert den Wendepunkt im Leben des Martin von Tours und den Beginn eines außergewöhnlichen spirituellen Weges, der bis heute Millionen Menschen inspiriert. In diesem fesselnden christlich-historischen Roman erwacht eine der bedeutendsten Gestalten des frühen Christentums zum Leben.

The Gospels tell us almost nothing about the childhood of Jesus, leaving nearly three decades of his life in silence. Lew Wallace—the legendary author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ—steps into that mystery with one of his most intimate works of Christian imagination. The Boyhood of Christ turns away from the spectacle of the Passion and asks a quieter, more human question: What might it have been like to watch Jesus grow?

US Marshal Morgan Sawyer rides into the treacherous Rocky Mountains on a mission to find fellow Marshal Tex, who vanished while they were escorting a dangerous prisoner. But ranchwoman Roz Beck insists on riding beside him, despite Morgan's protests. Joined by newlyweds Owen and Delaney, and...

Flashes of his past life are all Mattaniel remembers from the time before he was taken captive by Sidonian traders. When a shocking revelation forces him into the service of the king of Tyre, he finds his future and his freedom hinge on a captivating woman far beyond his reach. As the daughter...

Of all London's eligible suitors, why did the most impossible gentleman have to be the most unforgettable? When Amelia Moore is invited to London for the social Season, she hopes for a chance at love—but certainly not with Jeremy Beaumont, the Season's most sought-after bachelor. Upon making...

When the Civil War tears through the nation, Travis Britt is a simple mountain man in the Allegheny Mountains, he couldn't read a word, but he was devoted to his wife and children and the quiet life they've built together. But one act of compassion pulls him into the chaos of war, where he is forced to tend wounded Union soldiers -far from everything he loves. By the time he finds his way home, nothing is as he left it. Grief becomes his constant companion. His future is uncertain. And yet, through the darkness, a small flicker of hope remains-his young daughter.

'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and...

A new land, a fragile heart, and a chance for love she never believed possible. Ava Walsh has learned to hide her doubts behind a steady smile. Her father believes that moving to her aunt and uncle’s Nevada ranch will give his three daughters the future he fears he won’t live to see, and with the doctor’s grim warning echoing in her mind, Ava refuses to challenge him. If this journey west brings him peace, she’ll endure it, no matter her misgivings.

Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean’s hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher—until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that.

It is 1941, and America teeters on the brink of war. Outgoing naval officer Ensign Jim Avery escorts British convoys across the North Atlantic in a brand-new destroyer, the USS Atwood. Back on shore, Boston Navy Yard secretary Mary Stirling does her work quietly and efficiently, happy to be out of the limelight.

American horse trainer Adia Kensington is living her dream of working at the famous Janów Podlaski stables in Poland, where the best Arabian horses in the world are bred. But her plans to bring a priceless stallion to the US are derailed when the German army storms into her adopted country in 1939. Little does she know this is just the beginning of six long years of occupation that will threaten her beloved horses at every turn.

In the heart of ancient Persia, the empire’s Jewish citizens face an ominous edict that threatens their very existence. Roxannah, the daughter of an impoverished Persian lord, is devastated by the news but feels helpless to come to the aid of her Jewish friends. Desperate to support her family, Roxannah approaches the royal physician, Adin—the man whose kind eyes haunt her—and seeks his help to find employment in Queen Esther’s kitchens.