Finding Refuge Shunned by the Amish community, shepherd Carl King has given up on his dream for a family. Yet when captivating Lizzie Barkman shows up at the sheep farm where he works, Carl sees the wife he once dreamed of. Lizzie is looking for a new start, for herself and her sisters, and discovers Carl to be a kind and gentle man who cares deeply about the Amish way of life. But he is under the bann. Is it possible that this forbidden man holds the key to her family's safety—and the one to her heart? Brides of Amish Country: Finding true love in the land of the Plain People

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. Honor by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods After nearly thirty years of marriage, high school sweethearts Lacey and Kevin Halloran are separating. Kevin is reluctant to end the relationship, and when a heart attack puts his life into perspective, he vows to get the love of his life back once and for all. Lacey doesn’t know if she and Kevin can patch the cracks in their marriage—they’ve changed so much since they were teens. But a nostalgic trip to their cozy home in Cape Cod could remind Lacey that their love is worth saving. FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! The Shepherd's Bride by USA TODAY bestselling author Patricia Davids Shunned by the Amish community, shepherd Carl King has given up on his dream for a family. Yet when captivating Lizzie Barkman shows up at his farm, Carl sees the wife he once dreamed of. Lizzie is looking for a new start—is it possible that this forbidden man holds the key to her family’s safety…and the one to her heart?

Ray MacAdams and Billy Ducharme have been best friends since her family moved to his ranch fourteen years ago to start a new sheep ranching operation. Through thick and thin, good and bad, fire and rain, their friendship has only gotten stronger-so strong that nothing could possibly break their bond, a bond that for Ray has suddenly changed from simply friends to something deeper... Something that makes her dream of days and nights beside the man she loves, something that makes her wish she were more than just the shepherd's daughter. Then Billy's mail order bride arrives. Rebecca DuCastille is everything Ray is not: refined, well-mannered, and pretty as a porcelain tea cup. How can Ray possibly compete for Billy's heart when his new bride is everything he could want in a proper wife? Can the shepherd's daughter convince her childhood friend that their love for one another goes beyond friendship, or will Billy marry the pretty interloper and leave Ray out to pasture?

Poetry. "Jaclyn Dwyer's THE BRIDE AFLAME explores--with imagination, earned wisdom, and searing wit--what it means to be a woman: to be a girl in her inescapable body; to be a lover and a wife; to be a daughter and then to raise them. These poems confront the worst horrors of womanhood--domestic violence, rape, the loss of a child--but they also revel in its possibilities. As Dwyer writes, 'I make and I am.' This is a mantra for mother and poet alike."--Maggie Smith "Girls, women, wives, daughters--Jaclyn Dwyer investigates what it is to be female in this moment in time. Her language is lush, words cascading and undulating in images that paint a world in all its terrible beauty. But we have to look because fire illuminates as it burns, and Dwyer's women are on fire with being anorectics, zombies, someone who will stub a lit cigarette on her own hand. They are exes, brides, and finally mothers, creating a new body of flesh out of the old. A gorgeous debut."--Barbara Hamby "The poems in THE BRIDE AFLAME are fierce, tuned in equal measure to the sensual and the violent. In this smart, unforgiving, and at times savage book, the body takes center stage, demanding its pleasures, its pains, and its refusals. If damage is how we measure the beauty left behind, then Jaclyn Dwyer knows the world's tally better than anyone."--Rebecca Hazelton

Shunned by the Amish community, shepherd Carl King has given up on his dream for a family. Yet when captivating Lizzie Barkman shows up at the sheep farm where he works, Carl sees the wife he once dreamed of. Lizzie is looking for a new start, for herself and her sisters, and discovers Carl to be a kind and gentle man who cares deeply about the Amish way of life. But he is under the bann. Is it possible that this forbidden man holds the key to her family's safety–and the one to her heart? Brides of Amish Country: Finding true love in the land of the Plain People

He: "Thou art all fair my love; there is no spot in thee." She: "This is my beloved and this is my friend." Ah, such sweet words coming from a nameless shepherd, aptly dubbed "Beloved" as he described his future wife. His heart-ravishing girlfriend called him her beloved and friend. Who wouldn't want to have such an intimate relationship with someone like these two? Well, guess what? If you are a Christian, you already have such a pounding, heart-beating love relationship better than this with the lover of all lovers, King Jesus Christ. The Shulamite, the Shepherd, and Solomon tells a narrative of one man and woman who were so into each other that an outsider couldn't pull off his best tricks in order to seduce "the weaker sex." Now, time and distance were able to come between the two lovebirds but did such have the power to put asunder the flaming love the Shulamite and the shepherd had for each other? As they say, "Time will tell," and it told all in between the pages of The Shulamite, the Shepherd, and Solomon. Read it for yourself, and you'll be welcomed to quietly sit and spectate on one of the most torrid and cherished love affairs of all time. As you sigh and say, "I wish there was someone who loved me like that," just remember there is His name is Jesus. If you know Him, ask Him to take you into a deeper depth of His love. If you don't know Him, "Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee" (Job 22:21). Happy reading to all!

"Brooke Baker, sold as a mail-order bride, looks to her future with dread but firm resolve. If she survived Uncle Jackson, she can survive anyone. When Sky Jordan hears that his nefarious cousin has sent for a mail-order bride, he knows he has to prevent the marriage. No woman deserves to be left to that fate. Still, he's as surprised as anyone to find himself standing next to her before the minister. Brooke's new husband turns out to be kinder than any man has ever been. But then the unthinkable happens and she holds the key that might save innocent lives but destroy Sky all in one fell swoop. It's a choice too unbearable to contemplate ... but a choice that must be made."--Page 4 of cover.