"It's Christmastime in Good Springs, and Lydia Bradshaw is eager for the light at the end of her year--the Colburn family's big holiday gathering. When she discovers none of her siblings are coming back to the village this year, she believes Christmas will be ruined. As Lydia faces a gloomy holiday in the Colburn house, an unexpected discovery brightens her favorite season. Will it be enough to rekindle the light of Christmas?" -- Back cover.

"Sophia Ashton's new medical assistant job comes with the perks of living on the Colburn property, which include being surrounded by a loving family--something she's never known. During the job's trial period, a patient puts Sophia's career in jeopardy. Now she must prove her competence or lose her job and home. Nicholas Vestal is working on a sheep farm to earn a starter flock, but before his contract is up, he inherits a house in the village. While...

Lydia Colburn is a young physician dedicated to serving her village in the Land, an undetectable island in the South Atlantic Ocean. When Lt. Connor Bradshaw's parachute carries him from the war engulfing the 2025 world to Lydia's hidden land, his mission could expose her simple society. As Connor searches for a way to return to his squadron, his fascination with life in the Land makes him protective of Lydia and her peaceful homeland, and Lydia's...

"Mandy Foster regrets her past. If anyone discovers her secret, tradition dictates she will be shunned. She's determined to guard her heart, even if it mean a lifetime alone. Breaking from the Land's tradition, carpenter Levi Colburn is building his house outside the village - across the road from Mandy Foster to be exact. Though he hopes to marry Mandy someday, she rejected him once and has been unattainable to every man in the village ever since....

Young widow Eva Vestal assumes loneliness is God{u2019}s permanent plan for her life. She keeps busy by raising her son and co-managing the Inn at Falls Creek with her elderly father, but her heart yearns for more. Solomon Solo Cotter has spent his life working with horses, but he secretly wants to write a book of the children{u2019}s stories his grandfather told him as a boy. He barters with Eva{u2019}s father for a 40-night stay at the inn, a needed...