Inspirational

Emily O'Reilly is obsessed with all things Search and Rescue---she volunteers with the team and goes on rescue missions with her stepmom and she even sells homemade jewelry to save up for her own search and rescue puppy. But when an expensive necklace is stolen and Emily is accused of the crime, it looks like she'll never get her puppy and join the Rock Harbor Search and Rescue team. But she sets out to find the culprit---only she isn't prepared for the secrets she and the Search and Rescue dogs sniff out in the process.

The century-old Gentlewoman’s Guide to Love and Courtship is no ordinary book club choice. But for the little book club in Smitten, Vermont, it might be their best pick yet!

Summer, fall, winter, spring—Smitten, Vermont, is the place for love . . . and mystery!

Welcome to Smitten, Vermont. With the help of four friends, it’s about to become the most romantic town in America.

Irresistible romance meets thrilling suspense in this novella from USA Today best-selling novelist Colleen Coble.

A young woman in 1904 Austin, Texas faces an uncertain future as she seeks her fortune as a house maid.

Destitute and almost forced into putting her beloved daughter in a Russian orphanage, Tatiana Lazarenk chooses to come to America as the mail order bride of a man she doesn’t know. Only when she arrives does she discover the man she thought she had agreed to marry doesn’t know anything about it, thanks to his twin brother. Gabe agrees to let her stay, but he intends to send her back to Russia. His mother has other plans, and he soon finds his heart touched by little Irina and her beautiful mother. Tatiana must give all that she loves to be able to grasp this chance at love and happiness.

Orphaned sisters Maggie and Fiona O’Keefe are on their own in a new country. In Wabash, Indiana, the nineteen-year-old Maggie struggles to balance her business – a bakery specializing in Irish pastries – with caring for her three-year-old sister. One day, Fiona disappears. Wabash sheriff Simon Masters, assuming Maggie to be a careless young mother, soon joins the search. Simon has a particular distaste for negligent parents and informs Maggie that he questions returning Fiona to her custody when – and if – the child is found. As the two butt heads, they find they have more in common than the disagreement between them.

The Wedding Quilt Bride is one of Coble’s early novellas. Faith Cole makes a visit to her great-grandmother to Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1889. Convinced her disability will keep her from ever marrying, Faith shuns the hope in her mother’s wedding trunk. But the threat from a dangerous dam brings her out of her shyness, and she finds God has other plans.

When gold fever sweeps 1849 America, folks rush westward with dreams of new lives and instant wealth. Alexandria has lost everything but a steamboat named the Dawson Belle. It’s her only hope of providing for her brother. Captain Philip Monroe has other plans for the steamboat, but he can’t deny the woman draws him like no other he’s met. Dawson is wild and dangerous, and it will take them working together to make a success of their venture. Will nearly losing it all open their eyes to the love they both crave?