LaVyrle Spencer

Bess Curran, forty, is an interior designer in the Minneapolis, St. Paul area, still lonely and bitter after her traumatic divorce six years earlier. Her adult daughter, Lisa, anxious for her parents to reconcile, arranges a surprise dinner meeting where she informs them that she is pregnant and about to marry. Bess and former husband Michael, who left her for another woman, who, in turn, has just left him, can barely control their mutual animosity...

When a music superstar returns to her hometown, can she learn how to help those who need her the most? Tess " Mac" McPhail is one of country music' s brightest lights, a millionaire many times over, accustomed to public adoration and a life lived on her own terms. Now, eighteen years after she left her hometown, Mac' s sisters insist she return to help care for their widowed mother. There Mac faces...

When a recently widowed woman returns to her home town, will resuming a love affair with a high-school sweetheart bring back her joy? Shattered by the loss of her husband, Maggie struggled each day to put her grief behind her- to face life again and to be there for her teenaged daughter. When she returned to her Wisconsin hometown, she never expected to feel a spark of longing for her old high school sweetheart. Eric's marriage to a career-driven...

Innocent and unsure, Theresa Brubaker has lived much of her 25 years trapped in a body she loathed. Never becoming used to the unwanted attention from the opposite sex, her precious beauty was treasured by everyone but herself- that is, until an extraordinary man opens her heart to the wonderful possibilities of love. Sensitive and caring, Brian Scanlon seeks to unleash the butterfly wrapped in Theresa's cocoon of inhibitions. But trust...

A young widow in a sleepy Georgia town finds true love during World War II.

A story of honesty and humor for anyone who has ever lived and loved from New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer. Agatha was the picture of primness and propriety, but her green eyes could blaze with anger-or sparkle with humor. Scott was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong. They were enemies, then friends. Then the sweet innocence of a child opened their eyes and their hearts-and...

When Sarah Merritt arrives in Dakota Territory in 1876, she steps off the dusty Cheyenne stagecoach determined to start this ramshackle gold-rush town's first newspaper. In Deadwood, her runaway younger sister, Addie, is living and working as domestic help at Mrs. Hossiter's boardinghouse, according to her letters. Five years after Addie's flight from home, Sarah is carrying the sad news that their one remaining parent, newspaper publisher Isaac Merritt,...

Linnea Bradenborg expects to find culture and excitement in Alamo, North Dakota, where she's recently been hired as the new schoolteacher. Instead, she finds a sparse little town in the middle of nowhere. Better yet, her train is met by a cantankerous wheat farmer named Theodore Westgaard who doesn't bother to hide his displeasure when he discovers that L. I. Brandenborg is a woman and not the man he was expecting. Westgaard thinks twice about bringing...

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beautiful and captivating novels-a powerful story of the human heart you will never forget . . . Five long years ago, Laura Dalton stood on the bleak Nantucket shore waiting for her beloved husband Rye to return-until the day she learned his ship was lost at sea. Now, Laura's lonely heart has found solace in Dan, Rye's closest friend. Dan has been a beacon of light in her...