Haven Trilogy

A small town in 1870s Indiana is the perfect place for two people to fall in love while fleeing their pasts and searching for their futures in the first novel in Jo Ann Ferguson's captivating Haven Trilogy The bucolic town of Haven seemed like the perfect place for Emma Delancy to make a new life far from Kansas-and away from the threat of the hangman's noose. For seven years, her secret has been safe. Until she rescues an orphaned boy . . . and clashes with local newcomer Noah Sawyer. Now everyone seems to be conspiring to fix her up with the handsome single father.   If Noah had wanted anonymity, he wouldn't have chosen this close-knit community on the Ohio River as his new home. But after five years, it was time to stop running. Now beautiful, plucky Emma Delancy is threatening his hard-won peace of mind. His growing attraction to this remarkable woman who takes in an abandoned child and is already bonding with his young daughter makes Noah start to believe in the future. Until his Chicago past comes calling. Twice Blessed is the 1st book in the Haven Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A woman must choose between the life she has known and the charismatic stranger who offers her a world beyond her utopian community in the second novel in Jo Ann Ferguson's passionate and poignant Haven Trilogy River's Haven, Indiana, governs its inhabitants by rigidly imposed laws, including some highly unusual ones about marriage and family. Defying the town-and its all-powerful Assembly of Elders-Rachel Browning takes in orphaned Katherine Mulligan to raise as her own. But now Rachel's overprotective brother is pressuring the single mother to marry. Rachel's ideal husband certainly isn't the brash, seductive stranger she meets when Katherine runs away.   Wyatt Colton's life is like the ever-changing river. The restless rover can't imagine putting down roots in one place, especially not this backwater burg with its tyrannical rules and regulations. He'll stay in River's Haven just long enough to repair his run-aground steamboat. But what's he going to do about the adorable red-haired urchin he finds stowed on his boat? Or her alluring adoptive mother? As taboo desire flames into an affair that sets the people of River's Haven dangerously against Wyatt and Rachel, a man who swore never to give his heart will risk everything for a love that could be the safest haven of all. Moonlight on Water is the 2nd book in the Haven Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A young woman's search for her family takes her to Haven, Indiana-and into the home of a beguiling stranger with secrets of his own in the final passionate volume of Jo Ann Ferguson's heartwarming Haven Trilogy Haven, Indiana, is a long way from Samuel Jennings's painful past. And after rescuing three children from the orphan train carrying them west, he finally has the family he always wanted. Then one storm-tossed night, a stranger appears at his door.   For the past year, Cailin Rafferty has been searching for her children. Her desperate quest has taken her far from the potato farms of her native Ireland, where she gave her heart only to be cruelly betrayed. Now she has found her son and daughters at last-in the home of a man who loves them like they're his own. A man who's starting to awaken powerful yearnings in Cailin. But Samuel is harboring secrets that could tear them apart. Are they ready to trust each other with the future and become a real family? After the Storm is the 3rd book in the Haven Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.