Germany, 1505. In the dark of night, Katharina von Bora says the bravest good-bye a six-year-old can muster and walks away as the heavy convent gate closes behind her. Though the cold walls offer no comfort, Katharina soon finds herself calling the convent her home. God, her father. This, her life. She takes her vows--a choice more practical than pious--but in time, a seed of discontent is planted by the smuggled writings of a rebellious excommunicated...

Dorothy Lynn Dunbar, who thought she had everything she ever wanted, discovers a whole new way of life in St. Louis with the help of a dynamic, charismatic evangelist--who just happens to be a woman.

A beautifully crafted story breathes life into the cameo character from the classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. France, 1788It is the best of times . . .On a tranquil farm nestled in the French countryside, two orphaned cousins-Renée and Laurette-have been raised under the caring guardianship of young Émile Gagnon, the last of a once-prosperous family. No longer starving girls, Laurette and Renée now spend days tending Gagnon's sheep, and nights...

When Reverend Joseph plucks a gravely wounded child from the mean streets of Manhattanś rough Five Points District, he intends to give her a real home. And though Kassandra flourishes in the preacherś house, learning Bible verses at his knee and going to school, as a young teenager she makes the first of many devastating decisions, running away from the only haven sheś ever known. What follows is a waking nightmare: life in a tiny room above a...

Tragedy hit the Allenhouse family on a hot summer night in Ohio when a mother of four vanished. Eight-year-old Vada grew up overnight and raised her three younger sisters while her father lost himself in his medical practice in the basement of their home.