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Just as Franny is settling into her new home and growing comfortable with her new family, her world is shaken when her biological father shows up at the foster house. Touting proof that he is, indeed, Franny’s father—while claiming he’d known nothing of her abuse by her mother—he insists on full custody of the young girl.

Four Amish novellas: Noel Fisher can make entire villages out of gingerbread; why won't she make a few dozen gingerbread cookies for Hunter Darcy? When a widowed, Englisher, Hunter Darcy, asks Noel, an Amish woman, to make a couple of dozen gingerbread cookies for his daughter's class at school, he gets more than he bargained for. Two brothers find romance during Amish wedding season. Meet the Darcy brothers; two modern-day heroes who just happen to be the most sought-after bachelors in town. One visit to the local bakery opens the door for some sweet romance.

Amish Baby Collection includes four Amish romance books. All the stories are set against the backdrop of an Amish community.

Adam had left her for dead under the covered bridge; thinking back, she might have been better off if she hadn't begged for her life. The bishop is hiding a horrible secret that could expose his sins if he defends his son's sinful acts. For Eva, getting shunned for their sins could be the answer to her prayers. Lily can't forget what she saw; the community thinks she's making things up. When she suffers a breakdown after witnessing her mother's death from what is being called a freak accident, the bishop says he has no choice but to shun her and her father.

Two broken promises equal one broken heart for Sadie. Seth has left the community, and Sadie's father does everything in his power to keep him away from his daughter, including forcing her to marry Jed, a man who is not kind to her. Will she and Seth find their way back to each other, or will Jesse, Jed's sister, get her hooks in him first?

Lila leaves the Amish community after being asked to marry her sister's widower and become a mother to her children. Will Lila Yoder ever be the same after her sister, Hannah, passes away unexpectedly? When the Bishop approaches her only minutes after the funeral, asking her to take her sister's place as wife to Hannah's grieving husband and a mother to her children, Lila panics and runs off.

Lydia Yoder thought her life was perfect until a mistake from Steve's past threatens their plans to marry. Will Lydia be able to forgive Steve for a mistake he made in the past? When someone else's love invades her heart, Lydia must choose between a perfect square or the right fit for her future, because appearances aren't always what they seem.

The Enchanted is a story that takes place in a neo-Victorian “steampunk” era, where the occult still holds a firm place in the search for scientific discovery. It’s a story about desire at its deepest and most desperate depths. Isaac is an isolated man from a long line of witches and lives in an old mansion overlooking a small town. When the home is believed to be abandoned and set to auction, Isaac surfaces as a newcomer among the upper class long enough to secure his home but also meets a girl of unparalleled beauty, Isabella Jane.

Liam has been leading a double life since he was a teenager. When his father dies in a buggy accident, he feels torn between the English life he craves and the Amish life in which he was raised. After a chance meeting with Lucy Graber, the Amish love he'd left behind seven years before, Liam is faced with the biggest decision of his life. Does he return to the Amish community and his family, or will he choose to stay among the English?

Annie Lapp, the community gossip, is determined to get her hooks in Jeremiah, but after a brief encounter with him in the tobacco field, is she wrong about everything? Everyone makes mistakes during their rumspringa, but Annie is determined to make them all.

Daisy is running from her abusive boyfriend who is trying to sell her baby: is a quiet Amish village the best place to hide? Noah is a young Amish widower with a seven-year-old daughter looking to move on with his life; is a troublesome English woman the answer to his prayers?

He called her baby an abomination; now she must live under his roof... Willow desperately desires the closeness of family, but her bitter, Amish father-in-law wants nothing to do with her or his soon-to-be-born grandchild because she is not Amish. Will she ever get the family she wants?

When Maddie is approached by a woman claiming to be engaged to her betrothed and the father of her baby, she is devastated. What she doesn't expect is getting a proposal from another man.

Noah made the decision to stay behind when Miranda and Simon went away on their rumspringa. That decision cost him his best friend and his betrothed at the same time, all because he couldn't bring himself to leave his sister after she passed up marriage to take care of him when he was younger. A year later, he runs into them, but they have become Englischers. Will Noah be able to accept the changes in Miranda and win her back, or will her circumstances prevent her from returning to the Amish ways without getting Noah shunned?

When a tragedy befalls the foster house, Max and Horatio step in to lend a hand. Upon meeting 13-year-old Franny, a trafficking victim recently brought to the foster house, they aren’t prepared for the life-changing events about to impact their world.

Can a letter written by a dying woman bring two lonely hearts together? Abby Yoder is jobless, and homeless, and has given up her heritage. When she uses her last few dollars to bid on a cedar trunk she feels drawn to at an auction, the contents turn her world upside down. Noah Lapp, a young widower, has just gotten rid of his wife's belongings at the local auction. What he didn't count on was having her cedar chest come back to him, along with his troublesome past.

Although Princess Kirra now has an army to command, the Darkness power is constantly growing stronger. The source of death-stalker has been cured, yet there are still so many who need the antidote. It will take time before the soldiers are well enough for the army to enter the Onyx Mountains; time which Kirra does not have. For every day they delay gives the enemy more opportunities to attack. It is not just Saren the Darkness seeks to destroy.