J. Willis Sanders Boeken

For readers who've always wanted a story of how the Original Spanish horses could've arrived in Corolla, North Carolina, and for fans of Dances with Wolves and Castaway, The Diary of Carlo Cipriani illustrates how the tragedy of a lost love can affect someone, and how, above all else, a person should never, ever give up hope. "For you see, Luisa, to be loved is one thing, but to be understood is everything." Carlo Cipriani In 1521, to escape the tragedy of his wife's death, Carlo Cipriani leaves Spain. However, the ship upon which he and his stallion, Cantante, are aboard, sinks during a hurricane. He makes it to land with four shipmates and several horses, but not his beloved Cantante. The four spend their time trying to survive on what little food they can find with only rainwater to drink. Hoping to return home one day, Carlo writes in his journal to explain to his young daughter why he abandoned her without a single word of goodbye. Carlo is eventually left miserably alone. When suicide seems a viable option to such a dreary existence, he meets the one person with whom he might find happiness again. However, his past still haunts him, and it seems death has arrived to stalk him and his happiness like it stalked his wife and their happiness at home in Spain. The question is, has it truly, or has his guilt for leaving his daughter caused him to completely lose his mind?

Ruth Raber, an elderly Old Order Amish woman, has led a lonely life. She never married, never sang with a boy at one of her community's gatherings, and ruined the only relationship she could've had. And worst of all, she doesn't understand why any of that happened. Or does she? Every year around Christmas, a series of memories haunt her, and this Christmas is no different. When the nearby townspeople and the Amish and Mennonites in the area gather at Christmas Eve and invite Ruth, not only will she be challenged by her memories, she'll be challenged by a lesson from her mother, now passed on, about the kindness in the quilts she makes. Similar in theme to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, The Forgiveness Quilt will warm the heart while reminding us of the importance of kindness at Christmas--and for the entire year.

The stunning conclusion to the Eliza Gray series, The Colors of Tess Gray is a story about the amazing connection between two sisters and the man they love. When tragedy destroys a marriage, and a sister falls in love with her brother-in-law despite knowing she shouldn't, how can she create a happy ending for all three of them?

Clara's CourtshipBook Two of the Clara Engelman Series Having consented to a tentative courtship with her bishop, Vernon, Clara still thinks love will never be part of any other relationship she might have. Still, as a Beachy Amish Mennonite woman, she must consider her duty to her community and to her children, for they need a father to replace her beloved Abram. Still again, doubts in the form of rumors about Vernon's wife worry her. As she attempts to overcome them, she spends time with Vernon to see if they are suited for each other. However, someone who cares for Clara is concerned about Vernon's past too, and he is secretly trying to reveal any skeletons in his closet. Will Clara's courtship go as planned, or will secrets and rumors ruin it?

For fans of William P. Young's The Shack and Mitch Albom's The Stranger in the Lifeboat, The Essence of Emmaline Strong not only brings a paranormal musical element to the Christian Thriller and Suspense genre, it also illustrates how, one way or another, we're all connected whether we accept it or not. When multiple tragedies bring Jordan McCray to her knees, one more destroys her faith-she's going blind. Having taught herself to play the 5-string banjo, guitar, and resonator guitar before age ten, she retreats from college and the world to teach those instruments for her meager living ... and to hope love might come along to ease her loneliness. Late one night at her home at the base of Sufferer's Mountain, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, a stranger shows up on her doorstep. Although she's attracted to him, she scoffs when he says he's on a musical quest-to prove the existence of the human soul. Intrigued by the premise, however, she joins him on his quest, where they meet a musical faith healer who claims she and her husband were born-as hard as it is to believe-before the Civil War. As Jordan faces more challenges, she's summoned to the faith healer's home. There, what she experiences will cause her to question everything she thought she knew about music ... as well as about herself.

On a cold October morning, as the sun rises over the Atlantic, unbelievable loss greets Jake Smith. Yes, Andy drank too much, and she had some strange ideas about lights being portals to other galaxies, but could those things have meant she was mentally unstable? A week later, after enduring the Dare County sheriff's suspicions over Andy, Jake passes out drunk in a local restaurant. When he wakes, he's at the last place he ever expected-kidnapped by a woman who says they both need a vacation-her from an adulterous spouse, him to get over what happened to Andy. When the trip ends in yet another tragedy, Jake must decide if life is worth living without love, if he should solve the mystery of losing Andy, and whether or not he'll allow a new love to stop him from joining Andy ... in death.