When a disaster affects her family's income, Astrid's dreams of becoming a doctor are shattered, but an opportunity opens for her in Chicago for medical training, forcing her to choose between love and the pursuit of her dream.

Her first mistake was emigrating alone. Was this one even worse? Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegroom married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train. Her Bjorklund relatives eagerly await Augusta's arrival in North Dakota....

"After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America? The prequel to the RED RIVER OF THE NORTH series"--

When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?

The celebrated Fox News star and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a powerful, uplifting look at her life and her spiritual journey, reflecting on her family, her faith, and her successful career. Ainsley credits her success to the values she learned from her parents, and to the enduring Christian faith that has been her ballast through thick and thin. Her memoir is infused with her spiritual beliefs and will touch the hearts of all her...

Dean Flynn arrives in Bird-in-Hand to search for the Amish family of his birth mother, who gave him up for adoption more than fifty years earlier. Dean’s search leads him to Secondhand Blessings, where a newly discovered relative had consigned his mother’s carved keepsake box to sell. Touched by his story, Mary shows him the box, and they are both surprised to uncover an old deed hidden in the box’s secret compartment. Unfortunately, the appearance...

"When Lauren Collier sells a vintage camera from her late grandfather's estate to Secondhand Blessings, Elizabeth opens the back is surprised to discover an undeveloped roll of film inside. After Elizabeth tells Mary about the film, with Lauren's permission, Mary offers to get the roll processed, and the prints she had made reveal a mystery involving a local Amish man who mysteriously disappeared decades earlier. Can Elizabeth help Lauren discover...

When a famous television chef and her husband drive by the old Victorian home and the barn that contains Secondhand Blessings, they are not only smitten with the place but also insistent on filming a secret episode of the chef’s Dining and Décor Network cooking show there. With Mary and Martha still reeling from the news that their families are unable to travel to be with them during the holidays, and Elizabeth struggling to adapt to all the changes...

Though grateful for the blessing of her daughter, Carissa Lowe has accepted that widowhood is her lot in life. Bound by fear and mistrust, she feels incapable of opening her heart again. Tyler Atherton has never forgotten Carissa. When he discovers she's living with her sister on a nearby ranch, his life becomes intertwined with the lovely widows. And Carissa's daughter, Gloria, seems determined to wrap herself around his little finger. But while...

Deborah MacCallister, head nurse at the Blessing hospital, has loved Toby Valders since her school days, but she's had enough of their on-again, off-again relationship. Toby truly cares for Deborah, but he's never felt like he could commit to marriage or a family. When Anton Genddarm, the new schoolteacher, comes to town, the young women of Blessing see a chance to force Toby's hand with a little strategic matchmaking. But real sparks fly between...