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Can hope spring up in Hope’s End, a frontier town facing many a challenge. A cast of characters thrown together in trying times, stretching their faith to take hold of the future. Surprised by Love is a pioneer romantic saga weaving the town’s romance, mystery, and adventure into a story you will not want to end!

In 1866, just after the war had ended, women were still being brought over from the east to act as brides for the wild men of the west. San Francisco was still young and restless and the police department, now headed by it’s newly appointed chief, Matt Weston, was in turmoil trying to maintain some semblance of law and civility. Meanwhile, Chief Weston marries Eliza, the woman of his dreams, and as he struggles with his job, Eliza takes on the responsibility of hosting three new brides. Rose is a restless spirit who is excited to go west and start a new life.

Nora Arnsby fights her way into a world dominated by men. When a break-in shatters the sense of home she's created, Nora can’t find her footing. With the intruders growing bolder and her safety at risk, she reaches out to the only person who will listen, even if it means asking a man for help. The stranger across the street is handsome and persistently kind, so different from other men. Mathias Horton refuses to let any woman get close to him. Mathias must resume the life he gave up to save the one who ignites his battered heart, or admit defeat and let her go back to Deadwood.

It’s 1938, and Ann Brooks has big dreams of her new life as a Seattle College coed. She’s left the old-fashioned ways of her small country town behind to pursue higher education and a teaching career. But not everyone is ready for change. Society still preaches that a woman’s place is in the home. Some refuse to see Ann as an equal deserving of an education - let alone a career - and Ann's friends think school is simply a springboard to pursue a marriage of wealth and convenience.

It is the winter of 1942, and the world is at war. A few Jewish musicians attempt to flee the Nazi death grip, each desperately trying to navigate his own path to safety. With the courageous aid and kindness of strangers, they soon find themselves in Rome, where under the highly secret help of the Vatican, they are hidden in Bellafortuna, a small village in Sicily.

Mary Murray has seen her family lifted from poverty when her second brother Mark marries the lovely Amanda. She now has an attractive dowry and men begin seeking her hand in marriage, but she refuses to accept any of them. She wants what her own parents had, what her brothers George and Mark have with their own wives. True love is what she craves, and she has found the subject of her affections, but he doesn’t even spare her a single glance.

Lord Victor Murray tries to convince himself that he’s in a good place. This is because his three children have made good choices in marriage partners, and they are so happy. The stark truth is that seeing how happy his family is reminds him of a time when he too experienced such deep love. Though he doesn’t want his children to know it, he is very lonely.

Mark Murray is the middle child of Lord Victor Murray, the Duke of Pembington. He’s always been the obedient and good son, but when his brother marries the woman he loves, he believes its time for him to step up and take control of his own life. Despite his father’s hopes of finding him a wealthy wife to prop the family’s failing fortunes, Mark instead heads out to carve his own existence, which quickly drives his destiny to its lowest point.

Natalie returns to the Broken Circle O with her dying father. When she sees a chance to hold on to her past, it's the future she finds. Cody wants a solitary life, until a relentlessly kind woman breaks through his bitter, hard shell. John has been the quiet brother his whole life. When he sees the chance to protect an innocent woman, he can't stand aside. Alicia tries to avoid a marriage arrangement with a fiend. Will a quiet cowboy save her, or is her heart now in danger?

In the spring of 1961, 10-year-old Nate "Weenie" Dooley has a revelation: His father is not a good one. Inspired by National Geographic, his favorite thing next to the Bible storybook his mother gave him before she died, Nate plans to leave his father and their home in the Smokies to set out on adventure.

Gerald feels as though he’s lost everything when his wife takes her last breath. Amelia’s world turns upside down when the Duke of Granbury steps into her tea shop and leaves with her heart. But when a secret from Amelia’s past unveils possibilities, will the duke get a second chance at love from an unexpected source?

When Miss Beatrix Waterbury's Chicago-bound train ride is interrupted by a heist, Mr. Norman Nesbit, a man of science who believes his research was the target of the heist, comes to her aid. Despite the fact that they immediately butt heads, they join forces to make a quick escape. Upon her arrival in Chicago, Beatrix is surprised to discover her supposedly querulous Aunt Gladys shares her own suffragette passions. Encouraged by Gladys to leave her sheltered world, Beatrix begins working as a salesclerk at the Marshall Field and Company department store.

Best-selling author and inspirational speaker Tommy Tenney teams with Mark Andrew Olsen to deliver a mesmerizing tale of historical fiction. Favorably compared to Anita Diamant's The Red Tent for its unexpected plot twists, Hadassah is the fictional account of the Bible's Esther, the Jewish peasant girl who became queen of Persia.

CBA best-selling author Paul Robertson enthralls millions with his own distinct brand of suspense that has been called “Grisham-like". As 1870 Europe lurches toward war, one man could turn the tide. But with his wife’s mysterious death, he’s thrust into a web of deceit, political intrigue, and murder that could destroy him, his children, and a nation.

When the king is murdered, Esther struggles to understand God's role for her and the people of ancient Persia. And in a parallel story set in the Middle East, the Israeli prime minister's wife must delve into the past to fight terrorism in the present.

With eloquence and beauty, the award-winning author of The Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of God, and Paul: A Novel, turns his pen to history's most compelling figure, Jesus of Nazareth. In vibrant language, Walter Wangerin, Jr. sweeps away centuries of tradition and reveals a man of flesh-and-heart immediacy. Passionate, intelligent, and irresistibly real, this is a Jesus pulsing with life, who will captivate you as thoroughly as he did the men and women who walked with him across Galilee's golden countryside.

Born into affluence, Mia Stanley is a winsome socialite with a knack for matchmaking. She's also a writer for Godey's Lady's Book magazine, much to the dismay of her family - and their society friends. A proper young lady of her social standing isn't meant to labor in such a way, but Mia has always had a way with words.

Following the stunning success of her high-spirited debut, Karen Witemeyer delivers this compelling blend of humor and romance. When Adelaid Proctor finds herself stranded in 1883 Texas, she’s hired by a British-born sheep rancher as governess for a daughter still grief-stricken over her mom’s death. As Adelaid gently draws the girl out of her shell of silence, the governess and sheep rancher, at first, resist their mutual attraction.

With starvation stalking in 1915 Alaska, Leah welcomes her brother Jacob's dogsled full of supplies. But not until she unwraps the scarf-covered sled driver does she realize she's been embracing Jacob's friend Jayce, the man who broke her heart a decade ago. Although she insists that Jacob get rid of Jayce immediately, a sudden snow storm and a disabling injury delay his departure.

A rising star in Christian fiction, Karen Witemeyer brilliantly blends humor and romance in this compelling debut novel. Texas liveryman Jericho “J.T.” Tucker wants nothing to do with the town’s new dressmaker, Hannah Richardson. He’s all too familiar with her kind - shallow, more devoted to fashion than true beauty. Except for her well-tailored clothing, however, she’s not at all what he expected.