It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue . . . Luvena would be perfect for Clay if she didn’t come with kids. But kids are a deal breaker, especially in a rough-and-tumble mining town. ­ The trouble is, there’s no money to send them back . . . “Both heartwarming and witty, Autumn’s Angel captures the stirring allure of first love and of those moments when anything seems possible. But only if you have the courage—and faith—to risk it all.” —Tamera Alexander, USA Today best-selling author of To Whisper Her Name and A Lasting Impression "Autumn's Angel by Robin Lee Hatcher drew me in, captured my attention and reminded me to be a woman of faith and courage. Even when life's storm clouds gather, sunshine is waiting to break through. Hatcher penned a sweet, tender, full-of-truth love story about holding on and seeing God answer." —Rachel Hauck, author of The Wedding Dress and Once Upon A Prince "No one can tug on the heartstrings like Robin Lee Hatcher. Autumn's Angel is a wonderful story of unexpected love, and I read it in one gulp. Highly recommended!" —Colleen Coble, USA Today best-selling author of Rosemary Cottage and the Rock Harbor series Best-selling novelist Robin Lee Hatcher is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. She discovered her vocation after many years of reading everything she could put her hands on, including the backs of cereal boxes and ketchup bottles. Winner of the Christy, the RITA, the Carol, the Inspirational Reader's Choice, and many other awards, Robin is also a recipient of the prestigious RWA Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of 70 novels and novellas with over four million copies in print. Robin enjoys being with her family, spending time in the beautiful Idaho outdoors, reading books that make her cry, and watching romantic movies. Her main hobby (when time allows) is knitting, and she has a special love for making prayer shawls. A mother and grandmother, Robin and her husband make their home on the outskirts of Boise, sharing it with Poppet, the high-maintenance Papillon, and Princess Pinky, the DC (demon cat).

The Orphan of Angel Street is a moving story of fortitude and survival from Annie Murray, author of War Babies. Abandoned at birth, little Mercy Hanley shows a fierce determination few others can match. Her inner fire burns brightly, even in the harsh conditions of turn-of-the-century Birmingham. For behind Mercy's pale and haunting face, there is a mind of steel, as her harsh foster mother, Mrs Gaskin, soon discovers. Beatings, threats and poverty cannot halt Mercy's efforts to improve herself, or to create a new life for Susan, Mrs Gaskin's crippled daughter. Even in the worst times, it is as if someone is watching over Mercy, and willing her to succeed. Through the dark shadow of world war, Mercy continues her fight for survival. She will first earn her freedom and security. Then at long last she can give her love . . .

DIVA month before he becomes New York City’s mayor, Sidel confronts a gang of baseball-loving racists/divDIV/divDIVFor the first time in his adult life, Isaac Sidel is no longer a cop. He has moved beyond the halls of One Police Plaza, and is about to take residence in Gracie Mansion, after winning New York’s mayoral election in a landslide. Unable to bear his downtown apartment without his girlfriend—who is in Europe confronting her Nazi-tinged past—the increasingly paranoid mayor-elect has set up shop in a homeless shelter under the name Geronimo Jones. His aides roust him from his hiding spot and have returned him to work when he gets a call from the shelter: Geronimo Jones is dead./divDIV /divDIVA gang of white supremacists roams the city, murdering shelter residents and marking them with Sidel’s alias. They leave notes with each victim, signing them with the names of nineteenth-century baseball players. Mayors don’t go armed, but Sidel isn’t the mayor yet. He and his Glock will settle this problem before he takes his oath of office./div

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