Dorothy Garlock

Louise Watkins has her hands full. One day, she befriends a stranger ill with influenza, a man who has taken refuge in an old cabin in the woods nearby....

Tillison County, Oklahoma, 1938. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for her investment in the Rawlings, Oklahoma, Gazette. But the feisty newspaper woman hasn't even reached the city limits when trouble strikes: Hijackers try to steal her old Nash....

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life....

Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer....

In 1890, the rough Western town of Whiskey Bend, Colorado, is no place for single women....

Charlotte Tucker was raised in small-town Minnesota, where the only real company was the people who came to her Aunt Louise's boarding house....

Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone....

America's Heartland, 1946. World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime's bright promise with fresh energy and hope....

Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal, she reluctantly accepts. She can't bear to send him off to serve in the Navy with a broken heart...even though her heart belongs to someone else....

Gwendolyn Foster's life seems like a dream come true. A bright future in front of her, the successful, traditional man her parents wanted at her side. But Gwen has a different dream altogether....

Nona Conrad is boldly building a new life in picturesque Arkansas. When a mysterious stranger arrives in town and tries to abduct her sister, Nona must find the courage to uncover the truth and the strength of heart to accept help....

The postwar boom seems a million miles away...especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city....

Colton, Montana, 1931: Struggling through the Great Depression, Maddy Aldridge agrees to run an illegal speakeasy in order to save her family's mercantile store....

Sophie Heller and her family emigrated from Germany to the small town of Victory, Illinois, well before WWII began....