Bøger af Heidi Sprouse

Paulie Goodwin has pushed his limits in life. As a photojournalist, he goes wherever the wind blows, and has been around the world and back again, seeing its many faces and places through the lens of his camera. When his most recent assignment as a photojournalist lands him in Afghanistan on an army base with the American soldier, his life is turned upside down. A young serviceman gives his life to save Paulie's, sending the photographer reeling. He'll come back home to his family to heal from a severe injury in the small town of Cordial Creek. He's gone against the grain all of his life, choosing the road less traveled, but this time the mountain of guilt may be too hard to climb. Anna Peters has lived in Cordial Creek for all of her life. A teacher of fifteen years, she's always been content with her predictable routine, but lately has felt a need for something new in her life, some kind of spark. Change will literally run smack dab into her when she sweeps Paulie Goodwin off his feet at the airport. Once high school sweethearts, they've remained friends throughout the years, catching up whenever he's breezed in to town. This time, he's here to stay and ready to fall to pieces. Can Anna put Paulie back together again or will the cost of his last assignment be too high of a price to pay?

Cooper Bradley is consumed by three figures that feel like memories-two men and a woman in Revolutionary clothing. He spends his days sketching, sketching, sketching, trying to make sense of the shadowy figures that have haunted him since he was a toddler. He has no idea who they are, but they won't leave him alone. His father wants him to forget the doodling and follow in his footsteps as a lawyer. But Cooper is drawn to a much older legacy: to fight for home and country, hoping to find himself and the life he wants to lead. When the path he takes nearly tears him to pieces, he learns the true price of liberty.Will his endless sketching and those he loves be able to help him to find his way back?Join Cooper Bradley, along with your favorite characters from Whispers of Liberty, Liberty's Promise, and Liberty's Legacy in the conclusion of the Liberty series.

The search for Sarah is finally over. Conservation officer Graham Scott is trying to pick up the pieces of his life with his bride-to-be after she vanished for over 6 months. It's time to move forward. There's only one problem: Kane Johnson. Sarah's abductor is a fugitive, on the loose in the vast wilderness of the Adirondacks. Graham and Sarah will soon discover how far Johnson's reach extends into their lives and their nightmares. Will they make it to forgiveness or fall over the edge?

I have walked that lonely field, stood where my father fell. I have felt his presence, and his valiant heart beats in me. My father, Benjamin Willson, was liberty's son. Because of his love for my mother and his extraordinary sacrifice, I came to be. Jacob Cooper, the man who raised me, called me "son." Because of him, I became the man I am supposed to be. The son Benjamin Willson would be proud to call his own. Jacob taught me that someone must shine a light in the darkness. Even if I am only one candle amongst thousands, I will do my part to live up to the expectations of the men who went before me. I'm lifted up by the love of a mother who was willing to fight the British and defy the bottomless pit of her grief to bring me into this world. The drums of Madison's war are beating again, and I must answer the call. Like my father before me. Like the man who raised me as his own. I am liberty's legacy. Charlotte and Ben Wilson hold tight to each other as they read the final words in an 1812 journal belonging to Benjamin Willson Cooper-their son from a past life. A son born of unspeakable tragedy at the close of the American Revolution. A boy raised by a man who honored his best friend by raising the fatherless boy as his own; instilling in him the value of the word "liberty," along with its price. Against all odds, Charlotte and Ben endured the trials of war, despair, and years to find each other again in the twenty-first century, Now, through the window in time opened to them by the old journal, Charlotte and Ben sift back through the years to find out what became of their child. Join them as they conclude their journey of discovery that will prove family ties cannot be broken. Book #3, and the conclusion of the Whispers of Liberty series.

In 1906, the murder of Grace Brown rocked the nation. It was considered the trial of the century, capturing the imaginations of people coast to coast after a skirt factory worker, Grace Brown, was found dead in Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks of New York. Her lover, Chester Gillette, nephew of the owner of the Gillette Skirt Factory, was found to be the main suspect. His motive-he did want to deal with the pregnancy of an unwed worker that would hold him back on his attempt to climb up the social ladder.Journalist Charlie Baxter hopes to discover what happened that fateful night. His research takes him to the former home of Judge Ward, the prosecutor in the Gillette case. While there, Charlie finds himself haunted by the ghost of Chester Gillette. When a scream in the night pulls him from his room and across the hall to another patron in the bed and breakfast, he'll be stunned to meet Katherine Grace Brown, a woman who shares the name of the murder victim from the historic case. Charlie wonders what her connection could be. He doesn't believe in coincidences.Katherine Brown is tortured by nightmares - both sleeping and waking. No matter the circumstances, the dreams are of the same man and woman in a boat on a summer's night. What frightens her more is that she resembles the woman and can feel her terror the moment she falls overboard. She struggles to the surface, reaching out, calling, "Chester!" just before she drowns. Katherine understands the terror, on the run from her past and an abusive ex. She finds herself at the B&B on Ward's Pond hoping to find peace, but instead finds herself pulled into an old murder case...and the arms of the handsome journalist, Charlie Baxter. Their attraction is powerful, but the tragic story of Grace and Chester has an even stronger pull.