Romance

Bookends

By Liz Curtis Higgs

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Emilie Getz and Jonas Fielding are as different as night and day. Emilie is quiet and likes history. Jonas lives life to the fullest and likes new ideas. Despite their differences, they find common ground and begin to fall in love. But when Emilie seeks to preserve an historical piece of land that Jonas wants to develop, will they be able to overcome their differences?

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Bamboo and Lace

By Lori Wick

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Lily is excited to be visiting her brother Jeff in Hawaii. Raised in a remote Asian village by a stern father, Lily has never seen such things as she sees in America. When she falls in love with Jeff’s friend Gabe, she realizes that she has a difficult choice to make. Will she choose love or family?

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After the Storm

By Lenora Worth

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Alisha Emerson has moved back to Dover Mountain to raise her unborn child. When she suddenly goes into labor in the middle of a storm, only Jared Murdock, a stranger vacationing in the area, is there to help her. Jared and Alisha find themselves growing closer, but they both have things they are hiding. Can they overcome their secrets so that they both can find the happiness they deserve?
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A Scarlet Cord

By Deborah Raney

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Young widow Melanie LaSalle has all she can handle with her business and her 5-year-old daughter, Jerica. Then she meets Joel Ellington, and they immediately hit it off. When Joel disappears at the same time that money from the church bank account does, the evidence seems clear. Can Melanie trust Joel enough to love him?

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A Certain Hope

By Lenora Worth

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New York career woman April Maxwell returns home to the small town of Paris, Texas, to deal with her father's illness, only to find herself reunited with her first love.

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Waking the Dead

By Scott Spencer

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"...the story of Fielding Price, an up-and-coming young attorney in Chicago. He has just been offered a seat in Congress. His victory is virtually guaranteed-all he has to do is run.But on the campaign trail, Fielding finds that he cannot get Sarah Williams, the beautiful love of his life, out of his mind. It has been twelve years since Sarah was killed in a politically-motivated car bombing. But as Fielding is drawn deeper and deeper into the slippery world of politics, he becomes increasingly suspicious that Sarah is still alive."
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Smoke and Mirrors

By Barbara Michaels

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Joining the campaign of a charismatic congresswoman, young Erin Hartsock arrives in Washington, D.C., filled with idealism and ambition. But her enthusiasm dissolves into terror when the campaign takes a malevolent turn. Someone...something...has begun threatening Erin and her colleagues. First come the strange fires, then a seemingly accidental death. As the election nears, Erin fears that she just may be a murderer's next candidate.
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Love in the Time of Cholera

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years. (Catalog summary)
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Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy

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Regarded by many as the greatest novel ever written in any language, Anna Karenina relates the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, Anna's tragedy unfolds with relentless force as she rejects her passionless marriage to the aging official Karenin and must endure the hypocrisies of society. (Catalog summary)
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Persuasion

By Jane Austen

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After the man whose proposal she had rejected returns from his long military tour at sea, Anne Elliot is forced to face the decision she had made eight years before, along with the man she has never stopped loving, in Jane Austen's final novel. (Catalog summary)
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