Sally Laity

Housekeeper for widower with two small children. Duties to include cooking and upkeep of home. If the prospect pleases, position may lead to matrimony. Reply to Lucas Brent, Cheyenne, Wyoming. To Annora Nolan, even the unknown is better than the marriage her guardians are arranging for her. She answers a notice on the public board, then flees Philadelphia on a weekend train... only to arrive at Lucas Brent's farm ahead of her letter. The widower is adament about sending Annora home. But all Annora asks is one month's trial.

Orphaned, Amanda and Sarah Jane Shelby are left without hope in the bustling town of Independence, Missouri. Sarah Jane reacts to their situation with a positive and adventurous attitude, while Amanda, being the oldest, takes their predicament with all seriousness. Their only hope is to follow their father's dream of settling in the Oregon Territory, but Amanda cannot convince the wagon master, Seth Holloway, to take two helpless young women under his protection. Amanda and Sarah Jane set off across the plains, alone and unprepared for the daunting task set before them. What is God's plan for them? Will they ever reach Oregon? Or will their path be diverted in the search for a home, gold...and love?

High up in the branches of a sentinel maple Starlight Wells spins by day the dreams of a lost and never found girlhood. By night she flips the pages of her tattered storybook while savoring the memory of her beloved mother, and the noble era when knighthood was in flower. Amid the rural poverty of northeastern Pennsylvania in 1892, the ramshackle abode Starlight shares with her crippled father is far removed from the derring-do of armor-clad heroes, and dreams are but a reprieve from an ever-worsening existence. And then one day he comes. Astride his silver charger, with a Bible not a sword, Kirby Mitchell is to Starlight a dream-spun Knight from the past....and a man of faith and passion for the present.

Unable to forgive the Germans for her brother's death in the war, Tricia travels to England to do her part to fight the enemy. Working for her uncle at an American news service, Trish finds herself attracted to photographer Doug St. Claire. But beyond his good looks and personal charm is a vibrant faith that makes Tricia uncomfortable. How can Doug believe in a loving God when so many horrible things are happening in the world? When Doug disappears during a bombing mission over Germany, Trish faces a deeper struggle. Will she admit to herself how much she cares for her missing coworker? Can she ever forgive the enemy for twice taking someone she loves? And as weeks pass without word of Doug or the plane he was in, how will she ever be able to discover his fate?

Journey back to 1753 Baltimore, where Mariah Harwood is sold as an indentured servant to Colin Barclay. Her handsome new master just may be her ticket to paradise, but Mariah soon has her hands full as Colin plots to seduce her without being trapped into a commitment. Then when Colin is blinded in battle, Mariah must search within for qualities other than beauty to secure a marriage proposal. But how much will she sacrifice to garner true love?

Journey to Pennsylvania backcountry during the French and Indian War. Indentured servant Lily Harwood has always thought of herself as a good Christian lass. . .until she is struck with a deeper, more profound plight than the war that rages around her. When her mistress's husband returns home on a short furlough, Lily finds herself falling in love with him. As Lily is caught between passion and sorrow in harrowing times, can she find hope in the promises of God?