2022 Christy Award Winner for General Fiction and Book of the Year!**"Cox is a writer to turn to for emotionally rich and redemptive fiction."--**Booklist starred reviewPresent Day. Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home, determined to finally follow her dream of running the family business alongside her mother and grandmother. So when her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that Old Depot Grocer...

A forbidden romance, a fractured family, and one woman's journey to piece it all togetherHometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt prepare for retirement. A town called Bitter End seems an ironic place for Ana to refresh her weary spirit, but she's desperate for respite from the attention and unwarranted admiration of her community. While on a hike in Roan Mountain, a ragtag group of amateur bird-watchers takes her un...

**2025 Christy Award WinnerEvery family has its secrets**Josephina "Joey" Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she takes the opportunity to escape the scrutiny of her small town to oversee its restoration.Soon Joey discovers strange notes tucked deep in the crevices of the lighthouse's old s...

**"Cox's hopeful, heartwarming novel touches on complicated relationships, the value of friendship, and the impact of trauma with great heart and kindness."--**BookPageBeekeeper Beckett Walsh was living her dream, until her father's death sent her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family apiary--one who is looking to sell the property--and she cannot fathom why her father would put her in the position to l...

2021 Christy Award Winner for First Novel and Book of the Year!"A beautiful story about broken people coming together to find healing."--Heidi Chiavaroli, Carol Award-winning author of Freedom's Ring and The Tea ChestWhen Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee her late grandmother's estate sale, she soon discovers that the woman left behind more than trinkets and phot...

Dew of Heaven is the story of one woman's journey of seeking answers, only to discover she already had what she was looking for. It is a story of a restless soul, searching for love, purpose and belonging. And it's a story about the journey from a life of striving to become something-only to end up exhausted, anxious, and hopeless-to discovering the uncovered path leading to a land of rest - a wide open space. In writing and sharing the stories within the story of Dew of Heave...

When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames--she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption. Shocked, Ivy seeks clues to her past, but a key piece to the mystery is missing.Twenty-four years earlier, Harvey James finds an abandoned newborn who gives him a sense of human connection for the first time in his life. His desire to care for the baby runs up against the sta...

»Wenn wir durch eine gebrochene Linse schauen, können wir manchmal etwas Wunderbares und Unerwartetes sehen.« Im Rückblick kann Glory Ann nur staunen, wie aus den Scherben ihres Lebens immer wieder etwas Neues und Schönes entstanden ist. Das Kaleidoskop, das ihr Mann ihr einst geschenkt hat, ist der Ladenbesitzerin zum Sinnbild für ihr Leben geworden: Als sie mit 19 Jahren mit einem Mann verheiratet wurde, den sie sich nicht selbst ausgesucht hatte, schien das Glück sie verlassen zu haben....

1990er-Jahre: Als der wohnungslose, menschenscheue Harvey ein ausgesetztes Neugeborenes findet, will er nur eins: dass dieses kleine Wesen eine glücklichere Kindheit erlebt als er. Zaghaft nimmt er Kontakt mit der Zivilisation auf, damit dieser Wunsch Wirklichkeit werden kann … Gegenwart: Ivy Rose liebt ihren Job als Sozialarbeiterin. Doch ihr Privatleben gestaltet sich weniger rosig. Als ihr Verlobter verhindert, dass sie rechtzeitig das Sterbebett ihrer über alles geliebten Großmutter er...

A forbidden romance, a fractured family, and one woman's journey to piece it all togetherHometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt prepare for retirement. A town called Bitter End seems an ironic place for Ana to refresh her weary spirit, but she's desperate for respite from the attention and unwarranted admiration of her community. While on a hike in Roan Mountain, a ragtag group of amateur bird-watchers takes her un...

Josephina Harris, von allen nur Joey genannt, steht vor dem Aus. Ihr kleines Unternehmen ist unverschuldet in Turbulenzen geraten und das Auftragsbuch ist leer. Und so beschließt Josephina schweren Herzens, ihre Heimatstadt zu verlassen und sich in North Carolina auf einer kleinen Insel als Projektleiterin für die Sanierung eines stillgelegten Leuchtturms zu bewerben. Bei den Arbeiten an dem maroden Gebäude entdeckt Joey seltsame Notizen, die tief in den Ritzen der alten Steinmauern verste...

Every family has its secrets. Josephina “Joey” Harris wouldn’t mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she takes the opportunity to escape the scrutiny of her small town to oversee its restoration.Soon Joey discovers strange notes tucked deep in the crevices of the lighthouse’s old stone walls—pages torn from a keeper’s log ...