Ann H. Gabhart

  Schoolteacher Mira Dean's future shattered when the love of her life died. Having resigned herself to a spinster's life, Mira is surprised when the handsome Reverend Gordon Covington informs her he's moving to the Appalachians and wants her to join him . . . as his wife. Could Gordon's audacious proposal be part of God's plan?

Now fifteen years later, Jacci has come to love life on the river and her adopted family of actors, singers, and dancers.  She has even developed her own talent as an entertainer. But when someone tries to kill her, the past once again resufaces. The memory of the altercation that took her mother's life and the cryptic statements that she overheard once again replay in her mind. Jacci has many unanswered questions about why these events happened and is determined to uncover the mysteries of the past. But her grandfather, among others, are determinded to keep the past hidden.

During the 1918 influenza epidemic, widow Rose Meadows and her daughters take refuge with her brother-in-law at his Kentucky farm. The whole family has been through terrible trauma.

The rough trails of Kentucky are filled with rocks---and potential for romance---for packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun! She loves delivering books to the Appalachian people during the Great Depression, even enjoying squabbling with the cantankerous spinster, Perdita Sweet. When the woman offers her advice on choosing a soulmate, should she pay her any mind?

  After the market crash of 1929 sent the country’s economy into a downward spiral that led to the Great Depression, the last thing Piper Danson wants is to flaunt her family’s fortune while so many suffer. Although she reluctantly agrees to a debut party at her parents’ insistence, she still craves a meaningful life over the emptiness of an advantageous marriage.

  When an opportunity to volunteer with the Frontier Nursing Service arises, Piper jumps at the chance. But her spontaneous jaunt turns into something unexpected when she falls in love with more than just the breathtaking Appalachian Mountains. Romance and adventure are in the Kentucky mountain air as Gabhart weaves a story of a woman yearning for love but caught between two worlds—each promising something different.

With the threat of a cholera epidemic staring them in the face, Darcie and Walter Goodwin join the shakers, whose village is free of this disease.  It was only supposed to be a temporary stay but Walter is killed in a riverboat accident leaving Darcie no choice but to stay with the Shakers.  To make matters worse, Darcie is hiding a pregnancy, and martital relationships are considreed singul in this celibate community, putting Darcie in a unique- and lonely- position.  Can the arrival of a widowed Fynn Keller be the answer to all her prayers?