Bonnets & Beaus

Slipping out of her father's New York mansion on her wedding day, Nina Robert stands outside her home in the snow to hail a cab. The cabbie pulls up just before her father would return in his rig with the minister. She gets inside the cab, and the horses clomp to the train depot. With little money, she boards a train and eventually lands in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. There she hides out, gives a false name and meets Dr. Earl Olson, a young handsome doctor, who takes a liking to her. Love between them blossoms. But her tycoon father, Clyde Robert the III, has not given up on finding her. To search for his daughter, Mr. Robert hires the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency, known for their investigative work in foiling an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln's life during his first term. Nina's father also was determined to keep his daughter's arranged marriage to the wealthy son of a prominent and wealthy businessman intact. Nina has settled into a happy, simple life working at the Greens Boardinghouse. Although poor, she is content in her escape haven, not under the dictates of a father who managed every move of her life. But once her father discovers her whereabouts, she faces another dilemma — stay and fight him or sneak away once again, either way she could lose the man she loves. The Heiress Comes to Town, a clean, Christian historical romance, takes readers on a journey to small town life of 1896 before cars traveled the roadways and electricity illuminated buildings. Travel back in time and visit Nina's yearn for freedom and her desire to marry the man she loves.

The library door creaked open. Footsteps approached. The elderly librarian glanced up as a man dressed in a hooded midnight-black cloak stopped in front of her and presented her his journal. "… My confession is written in this journal." Six years later, Heath Barrymore entered that same library to fulfill his deceased father's wishes – to discover where the librarian had placed the journal and expose the secret his father could not. Heath stepped toward the librarian's desk, expecting to find gray-headed librarian Bessey, but instead his gaze met pretty Edna Hopper, the newly hired librarian who held a mysterious past. Return to the 1890s in Nebraska City, Neb., and witness the love and heartache The Librarian's Secret presents to our hero and heroine, and what it holds for their futures.

As a child, Erina Higgins was surrounded by prestige and wealth. But that all changed when her family's scandal erupted, and the family was forced to move to the desolate prairie of Tekamah, Nebraska, in 1879. Red-headed Erina became a teacher and left Tekamah but returned after her mother passed away. There she reconnected with her childhood nemesis, Adam Miller. Pastor Adam Miller was enchanted by Erina's fiery spirit, and there was no doubt in his mind that one day she would marry him. "Honey, you know we're meant for each other. Quit fighting what the Lord has ordained," said Adam Miller to skeptical Erina Higgins, who was determined not to wed him because that would disclose the family secret.