From the moment she arrived, her head swirled with questions that seem to have no answers, and answers that had no reason. Then, suddenly, she stumbled upon the shattering truth about her long-lost childhood and realized she had gone too far into the past to turn back.

About the Author: Velda Johnston was raised and educated in California and now lives in New York. She and her husband divide their time between a Manhattan apartment and a nineteenth-century home in Sag Harbor, Long Island, the setting for many of her novels.

By the Same Author: The Stone Maiden (1980) and The Fateful Summer (1981), among many others.

Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna’s adoptive mother. But just as she’s gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents—aging hippies on a quest to reconnect with their firstborn.

Now Jenna must figure out how to reconcile the free-spirited Serenity and Tom with her traditional parents, deal with her feelings for a new love interest and decide what to do about her ex’s latest outrageous request. In the end, Jenna will find that there is no perfect family, only the people we love….

About the Author: New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery is known for emotionally complex stories told with charm and wit. Susan has lived all over the United States, including a childhood in the suburbs of Los Angeles, graduate school in the hills of Pennsylvania and several years in Texas. These days, she makes her home in Seattle, Washington. She’s there for the coffee, not the weather.

By the Same Author: Cowboy Daddy (1994, Silhouette); Dream Groom (1999, silhouette); and Her Last First Date (2007, silhouette), among many others.

Adopted, always grateful for the McIntyres’ love, Lucy comes into possession of an old photograph that could lead to finding her twin sister. As the McIntyres accept Zack into their fold, he suggests an unorthodox means of searching for her twin that sets them both on a journey they never expect. Lucy searches for bonds that can last forever, both with her sister ... and with him. With her caring determination, Lucy thaws Zack’s heart and coaxes him to open it again. Accepting Lucy’s love enables him to give the McIntyres an irreplaceable gift ... and teaches him how to find happily-ever-after.

About the Author: Award-winning author Karen Rose Smith was born in Pennsylvania. Although she was an only child, she remembers the bonds of an extended family. Since her father came from a family of ten and her mother, a family of seven, there were always aunts, uncles and cousins visiting on weekends. Family is a strong theme in her books and she suspects her childhood memories are the reason.

In college, Karen began writing poetry and also met her husband to be. They both began married life as teachers, but when their son was born, Karen decided to try her hand at a home-decorating business. She returned to teaching for a while but changes in her life led her to writing romance fiction. Now she writes romances and mysteries full time. She has sold over 80 novels since 1991. Presently, she is hard at work on a series for Harlequin Special Edition as well as the Caprice De Luca home stager mystery series for Kensington Books.

When she isn’t writing, she cares for three rescue cats, gardens, and cooks. Married to her college sweetheart since 1971, believing in the power of love and commitment, she envisions herself writing relationship novels, both romance and mystery, for a long time to come!

By the Same Author: Their Baby Bond (2004, Silhouette); Take a Chance on Me (2004, Silhouette); and Wanted: A Real Family (2013, Harlequin), among many others.

Heartbroken, especially when he discovers the identity of the baby’s father, Casper tables his dreams and determines to be dependable for once, helping his older brother, Darek, prepare the family resort for its grand reopening. Casper longs to be the hero of at least one family story, but a never-ending Deep Haven winter and costly repairs threaten their efforts and the future of the resort.

Worse, one of Casper’s new jobs constantly brings him into contact with Raina, whom he can’t seem to forget. A tentative friendship begins to heal fresh wounds, but can they possibly overcome past mistakes and current choices to discover a future together?

About the Author: Susan May Warren is the bestselling, Christy and RITA® Award-winning author of more than forty novels whose compelling plots and unforgettable characters have won acclaim with readers and reviewers alike. She spent eight years as a missionary in Russia with her husband and four children before returning to Minnesota’s north shore to write full time.

Here is the stirring tale of three young people tossed and driven by forces beyond their control—by heartbreak and sorrow, by the golden promise of an untamed land, by their burning love for one another, by the driving dream of a better life to come.

Compiler’s Note: The first volume in a trilogy consisting of Amalie’s Story, Petra (1978, The Iowa State University Press), and The Sailing Out (1982, The Iowa State University Press). This initial volume recounts the story of Amalie, an immigrant woman whose poor parents are forced to give her up for adoption. Amalie treasures the tale of her adoption by her uncle until she is old enough to question it. Later she finds success as an immigrant in the Danish American community in Iowa.

Four young women meet in an English boarding school; each is blessed with talent and beauty. One of them has the power to predict the future. Victoria Raven is a pale, ghostly beauty with platinum hair. Her crystal ball is an amethyst ring, a family heirloom with which she spins the destinies of her beautiful, ambitious and soon to be legendary friends. Each will be chosen for greatness, and each will be cursed with the same prophecy: that in twenty years they will be reunited, but one of them will be gone. Only time will tell who will live and who will die....

Jess has an eye for light that will soon make her one of the world’s preeminent painters. Gwynneth, never quite believing Victoria’s vision of her great beauty, will become the extraordinary model who captures the international fashion world. Catriona, who married for love and was bitterly disappointed, will finally find her gift for business and amass a great fortune, just as Victoria said she would.

Everything Victoria Raven had foretold for her friends has come true ... except that one horrible vision; and until their dreaded reunion at the castle in Scotland, no one will know the outcome of the curse. Through a breathtaking series of dramatic events, each of these glamorous women learns that all the money, love and beauty in the world cannot buy the future.

Amethyst is as compelling as it is surprising, as romantic as it is mysterious. A classic of its kind, Amethyst is what every woman wants.

About the Author: Mary-Rose Hayes has led an exciting and somewhat nomadic existence—as a London fashion model, a sailboat deckhand, a librarian in war-torn Northern Ireland and a newspaper travel correspondent. Born in England, Mary-Rose Hayes currently lives in San Francisco.

Rachel’s one desire is to leave the Amish way of life and Paradise forever. Then her prayers are answered. Rachel discovers that the strange, key-shaped birthmark above her heart identifies her as the heir to a vast fortune left by her Englischer grandfather, Robert St. Clair. If Rachel will marry a suitable descendant of the St. Clair family, she will inherit an enormous sum of money. But Rachel does not know that behind the scenes is her long-dead grandfather’s sister-in-law, Augusta St. Clair, a vicious woman who will do anything to keep the fortune in her own hands. As the deceptions and intrigues of the St. Clair family bind her in their web, Rachel realizes that she has made a terrible mistake. But has her change of heart come too late?

About the Author: Patrick E. Craig is a lifelong writer and musician. He has served as a worship leader, seminar speaker, and pastor but now concentrates on writing and publishing both fiction and nonfiction books. Patrick and his wife, Judy, make their home in Idaho and are the parents of two adult children and grandparents of five.

By the Same Author: A Quilt for Jenna (2013, Harvest House Publishers); The Road Home (2013, Harvest House Publishers); and Jenny’s Choice (2014, Harvest House Publishers), among others.

Nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger’s encounter with all three rekindles a buring desire to meet her biological family. Propelled on a personal journey of discovery, Lexie’s search for the truth takes her from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country.

There she finds Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who may hold the key to Lexie’s past. But Marta isn’t talking, especially now that she has troubles of her own following the death of an Amish patient during childbirth. As Lexie steps in to assume Marta’s patient load and continues the search for her birth family, a handsome local doctor proves to be a welcome distraction. But will he also distract her from James, the man back home who lovingly awaits her return?

From her patients, Lexie learns the meaning of the Pennsylvania Dutch word demut: “to let be.” Will this woman who wants to control everything ever learn to depend totally on God? Or will her stubborn determination to nearth the secrets of the past at all costs only serve to tear her newfound family apart?

A compelling story about a search for identity and the ability to trust that God securely holds our whole life—past, present, and future.

About the Author: Mindy Starns Clark is the author of many books (more than 450,000 copies sold), which include A Pocket Guide to Amish Life, Shadows of Lancaster County, Whispers of the Bayou, and The Amish Midwife. In addition, Mindy is a popular inspirational speaker and playwright.

Leslie Gould, a former magazine editor, is the author of numerous novels, including Beyond the Blue and Garden of Dreams. She received her master of fine arts degree from Portland State University and lives in Oregon with her husband, Peter, and their four children.

By the Same Author: The Amish Seamstress (2013), among others.

Izzy Mueller is an exceptional listener and gifted caregiver. She’s also a talented seamstress. As the young woman sits with her elderly patients, she quietly sews as they share their stories. She’s content with her life until circumstances reconnect her with someone she once loved. Zed Bayer, a Mennonite, is not what her family is hoping for in a spouse, and his creative interest in filmmaking is definitely at odds with her Amish upbringing.

As Izzy is swept up again in Zed and renews her friendship with his sister, Ella, she begins to ask questions about her own life—her creative longings and historical interests, her relationships and desire for romance, and most importantly, her faith. What is the path God has for her? Can she learn from the past of both her family’s and Zed’s—or must she forge a completely different future of her own?

About the Author: Mindy Starns Clark is the bestselling author of more than 20 books, both fiction and nonfiction, with over a million copies sold. Mindy and her husband, John, have two adult children and live in Pennsylvania.

Leslie Gould, a former magazine editor, is the author of numerous novels, including Beyond the Blue and Garden of Dreams. She received her master of fine arts degree from Portland State University and lives in Oregon with her husband, Peter, and their four children.

By the Same Author: The Amish Midwife (2011), among others.

From her debut, with Where Are the Children?, to her latest best-seller While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark’s masterly blend of glamour, romance, and heart-pounding, believable suspense has made her one of America’s most popular best-selling novelists.

All the qualities which have earned her a large, devoted following are represented brilliantly in The Anastasia Syndrome. In the title novella, inspired by the true story of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the Russian Czar a woman in love is forced to confront the demons of her past—and present—as a haunting sense of déja vu inexorably draws her toward the appalling truth about a wave of terrorist bombings.

The remaining four stories in the collection are all miniature masterpieces of suspense that probe the inner secrets of the human mind. A supernatural phenomenon occurs in “Double Vision,” a nightmarish thriller about twin sisters stalked by a psychopath. Obsessive love is the theme of “Terror Stalks the Class Reunion,” a story which draws much of its verisimilitude from Mary Higgins Clark’s fascination with actual criminal trials. “The Lost Angel” is a tender Christmas story, well on its way to becoming a classic. And “Lucky Day,” a twisty tale of love, death, and a lottery jackpot, has been compared to O. Henry’s masterpiece, “The Gift of the Magi.”

Compelling, intriguing, wonderfully entertaining, The Anastasia Syndrome is Mary Higgins Clark at her spine-chilling best.

Unable to remember exactly what happened on the mountain in Zimbabwe and trying to come to terms with the loss of her hand in the accident, Clare is taken home to Scotland where her large, loving, questioning, and uncomfortably acute family become almost unbearable. She had wanted David dead, but did that mean she had killed him? Her mother’s High Church concern, Anni’s sharp-tongued radicalism, saintly Felicity’s internal fury, and her deaf niece Alice’s fascination with the prosthetic hand seem at first to distract from Clare’s problems, until the aristocratic family’s pieties pierce her cocoon of post-traumatic amnesia.

Family resentments flare and fade, divisions fester and heal, and as Clare uncovers buried fears, she comes to understand that the real question about the accident on Mount Nyangani is less what she has forgotten than why.

Intricate in design, disturbing in its explorations of mind and spirit, and with a surprising twist at the end, Ancestral Truths employs a striking narrative voice to explore the shifting relations between belief and truth, love and desire, to reveal that beauty and danger walk hand in hand. Sara Maitland summons her knowledge of theology, mysticism, mathematics, and human nature to give this deeply perceptive novel its wit and cohesive richness. As Ms. Maitland’s characters gradually recognize the inseparability of their strengths and weaknesses, the author of Three Times Table raises her art to a new pitch of excitement and originality.

About the Author: Sara Maitland was born in Scotland and now lives in London. She won Britain’s coveted Somerset Maugham Award for her first novel, Daughter of Jerusalem. Her study of women and Christianity resulted in a groundbreaking nonfiction title, A Map of the New Country. Three Times Table, a novel published by Holt to generous critical acclaim in 1991, will be reissued as an Owl paperback to coincide with the publication of Ancestral Truths.

Kate has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she’s getting on with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong relationship with her family, and a devoted boyfriend whom she wants to love with all her heart. If Kate had ever made a list, Rowan would fill the imagined boxes of a perfect mate. But she wants more than the perfect-on-paper relationship; she wants a real and imperfect love. That’s why, when Kate discovers the small velvet box hidden in Rowan’s drawer, she panics.

It always happens this way. Just when Kate thinks she can love, just when she believes she can conquer the fear, she’s filled with dread. And she wants more than anything to make this feeling go away. But how?

When the mistakes have been made and the running is over, it’s time to face the truth. Kate knows this. She understands that a woman can never undo what can never be undone. Yet, for the first time in her life she also knows that she won’t fully love until she confronts those from her past. It’s time to act.

Can she do it? Can she travel to the place where it all began, to the one who shares her secret? Can the lost ever become found?

And Then I Found You gives new life to the phrase “inspired by a true story.” By traveling back to a painful time in her own family’s history, the author explores the limits of courage, and the price of a selfless act.

About the Author: Patti Callahan Henry is a full-time writer, wife, and mother, and the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Between the Tides, Driftwood Summer, and The Perfect Love Song: A Holiday Story. She lives with her husband and three children in Mountain Brook, Alabama, where she is working on her next novel.

By the Same Author: Friend Request (with Barbi Callahan Burris; 2013, St. Martin’s Press) (“The true story that inspired the novel And Then I Found You”), among many others.

About the Author: Lynda Sandoval is a former police officer who exchanged the excitement of that career for blissfully isolated days creating stories she hopes readers will love. Though she’s also worked as a youth mental health and runaway crisis counselor, a television extra, a trade-show art salesperson, a European tour guide and a bookkeeper for an exotic bird and reptile company—among other weird jobs Lynda’s favorite career, by far, is writing books. In addition to romance, Lynda writes women’s fiction and young-adult novels, and in her spare time, she loves to travel, quilt, bid on eBay, hike, read and spend time with her dog. Lynda also works part-time as an emergency fire/medical dispatcher for the fire department.

Where angels go...

...TROUBLE FOLLOWS

And trouble was T.J. Madison’s name. Once Jenny Alvarez’s instincts had warned her against the irresistible rebel with the teasing grin. But her body trembled at one glance from his tiger eyes, and her soul had surrendered to a night in his arms. A night that would haunt her forever.

T.J. believed leaving Jenny had been right—his job endangered those he loved. But when he returned to question Jenny about her father, trouble came, too. Somebody wanted them silenced, but who—and why? As he fought to save their lives and discover the truth, T.J. realized he had another shot with Jenny—and this time he might not be able to let her go.

About the Author: Cathryn Clare had a dozen different part-time careers—from secretary to musician to arts administrator—before she finally gave in and admitted that writing was her full-time love. “No matter what I’m writing,” she says, “the most important thing is that I care about my characters and what they’re going through—and that I find a way to make my readers care, too.”

Cathy lives with her trumpet-player husband and three cats in a small central Massachusetts town, where she divides her time between writing and renovation. “The cats and the view of the forest outside the window help with the writing part,” she says.

And will Jenny finally give in to James’ persistent proposals realizing that once married, the chance that she will ever reunite with Henry will be gone forever? Spanning two decades, Angel of Thanksgiving takes the reader on an incredible journey of faith, hope and love. As we see Henry and Jenny’s lives unfolding separately and so far apart, will destiny bring them together again?

Timeless Biblical themes as surrendering to God’s will, forgiveness, and unconditional love are beautifully portrayed through unforgettable, real-life characters in this compelling, hard-to-put-down novel.

About the Author: Henry Ripplinger is the bestselling author of Pewter Angels and Another Angel of Love, the first two books in the six-book series “The Angelic Letters.” The overwhelming response by readers to Henry’s novels gives testimony to Henry’s gifts as an author to write books that touch human hearts and offer direction to their lives.

Henry’s empathetic abilities, combined with his lifelong experience and eclectic career as a high school teacher, guidance counselor, professional artist and businessman, prepared him to craft this inspirational Christian romance series and indirectly realize his aspirations of writing a self-development book.

Henry is also one of Canada’s foremost prairie artists. His work is on display at private and corporate collections across Canada, most notably in Saskatchewan, his home province, and can be seen in the critically acclaimed book, If You’re Not from the Prairie.

He resides with his wife in the panoramic valley setting of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Canada.