Beyond the Farthest Star - Adam Wells knows this move to small-town Leonard, Texas, is his last chance. How has he gone from the “Miracle Preacher Boy,” who shook hands with the American president, to two failed pastorates, all because of his daughter? Maurene, Adam’s weary, peace-keeping wife, aches for a second child, believing a baby will ease her husband’s bitterness. Can she dispel the secret hanging over her family like a choking cloud? Sixteen-year-old Anne feels hopeless and trapped after the third move in less than five years. She longs for the days when she knew what…or who…was beyond the farthest star. When had she lost her faith? And can Stephen, the confident cowboy who sees her scars, help her find it again?
If I Were You - 1950: In the wake of war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve’s secrets—and the complicated history of their friendship—to the surface.
1940: Eve and Audrey have been as different as two friends can be since the day they met at Wellingford Hall, where Eve’s mother served as a lady’s maid for Audrey’s mother. As young women, those differences force them apart until the threat of Nazi invasion and war bring them back together. An American stationed in England brings a chance at love for Audrey, and the collapse of the class system gives Eve hope for a future with Audrey’s brother. But in the wake of devastating loss, both women must make life-altering decisions that will set in motion a web of lies and push them both to the breaking point.
Traces of Guilt - Evie Blackwell loves her life as an Illinois State Police detective…mostly. She’s very skilled at investigations and has steadily moved up through the ranks. She would like to find Mr. Right, but she has a hard time imagining how marriage could work, considering the demands of her job. Gabriel Thane grew up in Carin County and is now its sheriff, a job he loves. Gabe is committed to upholding the law and cares deeply for the residents he’s sworn to protect. He too would like to find a lifetime companion, a marriage like his parents have…When Evie arrives in Carin, Illinois, it’s to help launch a new task force focused on unsolved crimes across the state. She will work with the sheriff’s department on a couple of its most troubling missing-persons cases. As she studies old evidence to pull out a few tenuous new leads, she unearths surprising connections. One way or another, she knows Gabriel Thane and his family will be key to the answers she seeks.