Bøger af Lorin Grace

He married her to save her life. Knowing her saved his.Running from her mistakes, Catherine arrives in Hiramsville destitute, desperate, and in the family way. Hopes that her twin sister can solve her problems are quickly dashed when learning her parents are coming to Texas. To compound her problems, the doctor insists she stay in bed after she faints on the boardwalk.The burden of being the only doctor in town weighs heavily on Dr. Aiden Palmer. Fueled by coffee and his convictions, Aiden does his best to serve the growing town. His newest patient touches his guarded heart in a way he hasn't experienced in years. Common sense says she is too young for him. Undertaking a marriage of convenience to protect Catherine is beyond a doctor's calling. However, Aiden enters into the marriage with the hope that their marriage will become real.When Catherine's past catches up with her, neither of them is prepared for the life-threatening complications it brings. Determined to save her new family, Catherine runs again. Only this time, running may be the right choice.

Biggest mistake ever: Mixing up twins when proposing marriage.As a newly ordained minister, Lewis is ready to take on his first assignment in Texas... Except he must have a wife. To appease church leadership, Lewis proposes to the girl next door, not realizing the one twin is impersonating the other. Assuming the mistake is destiny, he remains engaged to Catherine.Devastated at the thought of her twin marrying her long-time crush, Clara agrees to swap places to save Catherine from the marriage she never wanted. Once in Texas, Clara can no longer lie about her identity and must make two wrongs into the right future for her.Taking a teaching job is Clara's first step, rejecting Lewis's misguided proposal is the second. Somehow, she must convert the preacher to her way of thinking. The only reason to marry is for love.

A confirmed flirt in need of reform meets a preacher in need of laughter. These opposites are on a collision course with love.Elizabeth Garrett's latest flirtation embarrassed her father, a Massachusetts judge. Now he is determined to see her reformed or sent away. Who better than his Aunt Mindwell to oversee Elizabeth's reformation? With a name like that, Elizabeth is sure her freedom is gone.After his wife's death, Reverend Gideon Frost loses everything: his faith, his congregation and, most especially, his way. Transferred to the tiny community of East Stoughton, he must take a second job to supplement his lay clergy position. His feisty employer, Mindwell Roberts, doesn't have time to coddle him. She has problems of her own, a nineteen-year-old niece whose only life skill is flirting.Elizabeth knows how to play all the games and can wait her father out. Until her flirtations land her in the worst trouble of her life. The last thing she expects to find is joy and love in her great-aunt's home and with a stuffy preacher.American Homespun series: Waking LucyRemembering Anna (NovellaReforming ElizabethHealing Sarah

His name is her name too. Can a postal delivery mix-up become a match-up?Christian R. Johnson. The name typed on the letter in Tian's mailbox, and on the package that landed on Chris's doorstep. As soon as they opened their mail, the two they realized it was meant for someone else. What should have been a simple exchange goes terribly wrong.With a full schedule balancing her job as a pilot with her family, Tian wasn't looking for romance, but when she met her handsome neighbor, she couldn't keep her distance. Even if every letter of their shared names points to disaster.Chris swore off love for good, believing that his job at Hastings Security would prevent him from ever finding true happiness. Falling for a pilot who is out-of-town half of the month doesn't make sense with his ever-shifting schedule.Can cupid find a way to turn a case of mistaken identity lead to true love?Some of your favorite Hastings Security characters are back in the new Hastings Legacy series.

A civic-minded socialite, a widowed blacksmith, and a dead fiancé.Despite her father's objection, Amanda travels to Texas from Boston, intent on marrying Reverend Coolidge and helping with his ministry. There she will be free from her parent's expectations and have a chance to help the less fortunate. Everything is going to be perfect until a handsome blacksmith meets her at the train station.Gunter senses something isn't right the moment the deputy sheriff demands he pick up the reverend's future bride, and not to mention the reverend's passing. To protect his daughter, Gunter complies. Having experienced the loss of his wife and son, he would do anything to help Amanda in her grief, except agree to a marriage of convenience.Without means to return to Boston, Amanda hatches plan after plan to return home. Inundated with proposals and evidence of foul play, she relies on Gunter's protection. Running out of choices, Gunter agrees to marry her for one month to keep her safe from those intent on harming her. However, life and danger in Texas is so much bigger than she had ever imagined.

Lucy dreamed of marrying Samuel until she woke up as his wife.Dismissed after a disastrous year at the newly created Harvard Medical School, Samuel Wilson buries his dream of becoming a doctor. Shamed by his dismissal, he returns to his north shore home, where he avoids his former fiancée Lucy Simms and tries to dismiss all ideas of marrying her.Lucy pretends Samuel's rejection means little as she helps her family on their farm. An early New England blizzard brings challenges and death to her door. When it is over, Lucy lays in her cabin near death with only five-year-old Sally to aid her. Samuel discovers Lucy delirious with fever and endeavors to save her from the fatal illness that claimed most of her family. Unwittingly he puts her reputation in danger. At his parents' insistence, Samuel marries a barely conscious Lucy.Lucy awakens to a reality more bizarre than her dreams. Sure that Samuel's vows are coerced, she does everything in her power to convince him to annul the marriage. With the help of his mother and Sarah, he sets out to prove to Lucy that the vows he took are permanent, if she will give him a second chance.

Candace's ten-year plan has two flaws, year eleven and Colin. Everyone who meets Candace wearing one of her colorful wigs knows she is a cancer survivor. Determined to live life to the fullest, her accomplishments range from painting murals to convincing students on campus to give up drinking. Few people know the secret to her success includes a detailed ten-year plan and a bucket list full of check marks. Candace never dreamed she'd make it to year eleven.Computer expert Colin Ogilvie can navigate the most difficult codes. While his friends were chasing girls, he was hacking past firewalls and developing billion-dollar apps. He never felt he was missing out until he met Candace. After five hundred and twelve days in the friend zone, he wonders if he can ever crack the code to the wall protecting her heart. What science can't solve, art can. Their relationship changes when a meddling friend commissions Candace to help restore an antique merry-go-round.As Candace brings new life to the old merry-go-round, she discovers her own life can have a different path than she planned. But is she brave enough to not only reveal her biggest secrets to Colin but brave a chance on her own happily ever after?Books in the Artists & Bilionaries Collection: Mending Fences Mending Christmas Mending Walls Mending Images Mending Words Mending Hearts

One week in a Haitian orphanage changes Araceli's world and her heart.Araceli is searching for a way to make a difference. When an opportunity to volunteer on a service trip to a Haitian orphanage comes her way, she will do anything to go, including facing her childhood nemesis. Kyle followed his mother's footsteps and oversees the charity arm of the family's multibillion-dollar empire. Now if he could only find a wife who shares his passion for giving not only money but time. A twist of fate sends him to Haiti to supervise a group of volunteers. After Araceli accidentally puts herself in danger, she and Kyle must pretend to be in a relationship to keep her safe. As her walls come down, she finds herself opening her heart to the orphans ... and to Kyle.Books in the Artists & Bilionaries Collection: Mending Fences Mending Christmas Mending Walls Mending Images Mending Words Mending Hearts

Posing as the billionaire's fiancée can't be more dangerous than her bodyguard day job. Abbie Hastings has taken down men twice her size and guarded America's most famous. Taking a job to guard a billionaire's fiancée is nothing new until the prospective groom gets jilted, again.#Prestoned is trending as the newest term for being dumped and Preston Harmon is not amused. After losing several girlfriends to a stalker, he is desperate to salvage his reputation and life. Seeing how well Abbie works undercover gives him a plan to end the misery.Masquerading as Preston's fiancée is all part of catching the stalker. Abbie can guard the man, but can she guard her heart?Books in the Artists & Bilionaries Collection: Mending Fences Mending Christmas Mending Walls Mending Images Mending Words Mending Hearts

The key opens a box, unlocks the past and defines the future.In 1775, Anna Stickney received a precious gift for her fourteenth birthday, a handmade journal. A place to keep her secrets and write her wishes. As the country sought independence, Anna fought battles of her own, fell in love, and faced heart break all of which she recorded in tiny script. Someday she thought she would share the contents with her daughter. But Anna waited for another tomorrow to come...After her mother died, Lucy Wilson found a locked box. Unable to locate the key in the Massachusetts home Lucy shared with her husband and little sister, the box sat keeping its secrets safely locked inside.Hours before Lucy's life changes forever, she locates the missing key. No longer free to explore the box all at once, Lucy savors the contents in the few quiet moments she can snatch. Anna's words burden, sooth, and free Lucy as she comes to know the woman she called Mama.

Abandoned baby, missing mother, his heart-which one should Adam guard first? Adam Hasting's life takes an unexpected turn when a baby is left at Hastings Security with a note asking him to take care of his daughter. As the oldest brother in the family business, Adam has always set an example. One thing he knows for sure is the child can't possibly be his.Faced with an impossible situation, America's sweetest voice, September Platt makes the only sane decision she can and leaves her baby with the only man she ever loved. Trusting her life to a kind doctor September desperately seeks to put her life back together and gain the trust of Adam Hastings. When the paparazzi find September, new dangers threaten her and her baby. Adam and the rest of the Hastings family work to keep them safe. September realizes she must draw on her own courage to save her child and claim a future with the man she has always loved.

"Time is like a river of passing events, and swift is its current." This collection of award-winning poetry and prose from the League of Utah Writers takes the reader on journeys through the currents of time, warming in the glow of nostalgia, weathering grief, finding hope for the future, or hoping that the past doesn't catch up. Featuring fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from Virginia Babcock, Elizabeth Watson Barnes, Robyn Buttars, Denis Feehan, Matthew Funk, Brenda Birch Gallaher, Krystal Gerber, Robin Glassey, Lorin Grace, Amanda Hill, Josie Hulme, Jef Huntsman, Lorraine Jeffery, C.H. Lindsay, Christine McDonough, Chris Todd Miller, John Saporito, Valarie Schenk, Richard Timothy, Marie Tollstrup, Johnny Worthen, and Bryan Young.

One shattered window. Two bruised hearts. And twelve days until Christmas.Tessa Doyle's semester in Europe left her a much wiser woman. But then she takes a job referral from her ex-boyfriend, and agrees to repair the stained-glass window, the last work she will need for her MFA. With a two-week deadline, she will have no time for anything else, especially men.Sean Cavanagh's Christmas season has lost all its cheer. Nothing has gone according to his plans for Christmas since the drone broke the window. Now organ pipes are missing, and a blizzard is threatening to cancel what could be Granda's last sermon.With a little magic and a lot of snow, Tessa and Sean work together to repair not just a window, but also their hearts. August 2018 Extended Ending: Granda's house hid more than boxes of papers could they be worth a million or more?Books in the Artists & Billionaires Collection: - Mending Fences - Mending Christmas - Mending Walls - Mending Images - Mending Words - Mending Hearts