The Civil War of 1860 was about race. Today’s Civil War is about gender: the battle between Mother Chaos and God the Father. Long before Darwin, Marx, Freud, Machiavelli, and Saul Alinsky, Jesus figured out how to keep power. All people born of a mother are born in fear. No one needs to teach a baby how to cry and protest. In the “Deep State in the Time of Jesus” we see Jesus as a resistance fighter quietly dropped into enemy territory, driven by fear. He quickly chooses his leader Peter t...

In 1917 every man, woman, and child was called to civic duty as the “war to end all wars” encompassed the globe.When the patriotic call comes, Adella begins her campaign of encouragement by corresponding with the frightened and lonely soldiers. On the cusp of adulthood, the young woman is tired of living a cosseted life and hopes to gain her parent’s support when she wants to volunteer her services to the war effort. Her mother worries for her safety, but Adella is more concerned f...

Ugly reality kept young Nicolet Sherman tied to the oldest profession in the world - at least until a determined Yankee soldier stole her away from her mother’s house of ill repute. But years of broken trust and abuse left the exquisite beauty with scars no eye could see. And what could one very determined army chaplain change . . . except her mind?Southern grace meets Western grit, and love becomes the greatest gift of all.Join these Southern Belles on a C...

Losing hope is the greatest loss of all.Loneliness marked Randolph Tihalt as surely as the prosthetic leg he’d received after his service to the Union at Gettysburg. Still, despite the lingering effects of his injury, Rand found his place in Taylors Falls, Minnesota, with family and friends. However, when his Regiment Captain contacts him out of the blue, the surprised man agrees to an extraordinary proposition.Robin Sherman’s haunting past is something she...

Abigail Livingston is tired of the uncertainty—are her suitors really interested in her or her father's fortune? The only way to know for sure is to pretend to be someone else. But her plan derails the moment she boards the train to Durango, Colorado.Matthew Bellamy is on a mission. His business and financial future depends upon his ability to keep a certain wealthy debutante out of trouble. But when he loses track of her on the way to her holiday in Colorado, he realizes he's the ...

She wants to save her home; he has the means to save it. Will their fierce tempers spark a blazing love or burn a drought-ravished town to the ground?Cecily James is determined to save Last Chance, Nebraska from another tragedy. As the drought consumes everything around her, she wonders if her prospects are drying up with it. Left alone in a destitute town, she learns of a device that can drill for water previously unreachable. She expects this could be the answer the town prayed f...

It had been the perfect plan. No detail is left to chance. So, what went wrong?Marianne Sheffield is a practical woman who approaches every problem with a solid plan of action. So, when her identical twin sister needed help getting out of an arranged marriage, Mari took control. Confident she would have no problem outsmarting the ambitious Mr. Banks, she postponed the unwanted wedding until Christmas hoping to wreak havoc on the man's life and force him to beg off and save her pare...

When she offers to help plan her older sister’s wedding, Dinky Redfern knows that she’ll have to pack up everything and move to Idaho temporarily. Luckily, this isn’t a big deal, because a) Dinky is able to fit her entire life—including her pet hedgehog—into her beat-up sedan, and b) her sister lives at a beautiful tourist-destination ranch. No hardship at all… until Dinky meets her handsome co-planner, the groom’s Best Man.Jace Cunningham is everything that artistic Dinky isn’t: s...

Will her lies be her demise?Grace Sinclair is in trouble. When her adopted sister, Faith, is forced to defend her honor against an over-ardent saloon patron, she shoots him in self-defense. But who is going to believe four orphaned females living and working in a saloon are innocent of anything. Grace is convinced that the only chance of saving them all is to leave town in hopes the law will think her guilty and hold the other three girls harmless. A frien...

Fate often guides us down a troubled path toward happiness. Do we have the courage to take it?Mary O'Brien feels at home among the Southern Mountain Ute tribe. Happy and content for the last fourteen years living among these kind and generous people, she is caught by surprise when a company of soldiers ride through the village and see her—a white woman with fiery red hair. Their commander decides she must be returned to her own kind, and soon she finds herself an o...

Rosella Tihold and her family spent years as travelling musicians with Hammerman’s Cultural Musicale. But when her brother is injured at Gettysburg, the young singer’s priorities shift, and the lure of a place to call home settles in Rosella’s heart.Longing for stability, Gier Knudsen risks everything when he sends for a mail-order bride. But the secret he is hiding will certainly be a detriment to his well laid plans. So he requests that the marriage be performed by proxy, in hope...

What if you discovered the man running for sheriff was also working the wrong side of the law? And what if that man was your intended husband.Last Chance in 1895 is a shadow of what it once was, filled with too many women competing for the few men left to save them from poverty, starvation, and spinsterhood. Closed businesses and broken dreams rule the day, drawing a diversity of men to the struggling town; men on both sides of the law.Esther Sorenson has r...