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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?

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.

Follow the lives of Serena, Crystal, Ivy, and Kristy as they go from being normal high school girls to butt-kicking defenders of the Magic Dimension. Of course, not without the help of their handsome guy friends the Conquerors.

The children are once again called by the Time Keeper of Avalon and find themselves within the Orb of Caprice, this time joined by Daisy, Billy’s unsuspecting grandmother. Together, they must find the Key of Light if all their worlds are to be saved before DarkStar gains control.

Popysan is the great and majestic queen of the green dragons, but she has a huge problem: None of the eggs of the green dragons are hatching. Soon every single green dragon will be gone if she doesn’t work out why. She embarks on a dangerous and difficult adventure with her friend Poopy to find the answers that she needs. Along the way, they meet some strange creatures and some new friends. Faced with impossible odds, evil magic, and many, many miles away from home, will they get the answers they need?

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.

Princess Kirra of Southern Crag has a dangerous secret; she is the only woman in Saren who can use the art of magic. Kirra’s family helps her control and conceal her powers. But she is haunted by nightmares of a menacing darkness seeking the destruction of all light and life. Kirra realizes her nightmares are more than dreams when her home and family are destroyed. Finding herself completely alone, Kirra needs to discover if she is strong enough to face her fears. She has to learn to trust those who will help her fight the enemy ravaging her world.

Maisie is special. Yes, she is blind, yes, she’s an orphan, and yes, few know her roots. But inside, she sparkles, more than an angel, more than those majestic stars that layer the universe in glory. Some see this sparkle, while others deny its existence and insist she is nothing more than a brat, one that even her own parents didn’t want. Maisie also has a secret. One she’d never share because if she did, she knows they’d lock her away in one of those places the others talked about - where all the weird people go. What is the truth, and will Maisie ever find it?

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.

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.

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.

Sparks fly when Ruthie enters her whoopie pies in the bake-off at the harvest festival and discovers a local bakery owner used her recipe to enter the same bake-off.

Secrets of the Ice is the last of the epic journey for Davie, Ben, Chrissie, Billy, Anne, and Daisy. It sees them battle unrelenting odds within the Dominion of Ice, where they must find the 13 pieces of the Mystical Pyramid before Lokian can use it to unleash DarkStar and so bring Elsewhere under its thrall.

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.