Dorothy Garlock

Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around-until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...

A source of strength for her neighbors and friends, midwife Rachel Watkins finds herself intensely drawn to a disfigured veteran who does odd jobs around the house, an enigmatic stranger who seems so mysterious yet so familiar.

America's Midwest 1939. The Depression is finally ending- and everyone faces formidable new challenges with renewed can-do spirit. Charlotte Tucker is no exception. She has always followed her heart, and now it leads her to Oklahoma's biggest ranch where she can teach in her very own schoolhouse. When suspicious accidents put the ranch and lives in jeopardy, Charlotte believes in the one man no one else truse and asks him to help her uncover the truth....

Nona Conrad is boldly building a new life in picturesque Home, Arkansas. When a mysterious stranger arrives in town and tries to abduct her sister, Nona must find the courage to uncover the truth and the strength of heart to accept help. She turns to Simon Wright, the owner of the fishing camp where she works. Although she is attracted to him, there is something about him she doesn't trust--especially when he tells her that her half-brother Harold...

Tired of the loneliness entailed by her bootlegger father's nomadic business, Anabel Lee is delighted when a young boy arrives and is recruited for the operation, until the boy's older sister sends law officer Corbin Appleby to find him, and Annabel must choose between her rumrunning father and the handsome lawman.

Taking a job as nurse to the local town doctor, newcomer April Asbury attracts the attention of Joe Jones, whose family is disrupted by an unstable widow's claims about the paternity of Joe's youngest sister.

Leaving Germany long before World War II, Sophie Heller and her family had settled in Victory, Illinois. However, when there is a train wreck in the midst of the war, her family comes under suspicion. Working as a newspaperwoman, she begins an investigation to uncover the truth. Cole Ambrose, a physically disabled local teacher, becomes her unexpected ally, and love.

When her small 1920s Oklahoma town booms in the wake of an oil discovery, spunky Jill, the niece of the local hotel owner, is harassed by locals before reluctantly accepting protection from neighbor Thad, who mistakes her for a flapper.

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life, until a talent manager discovered her and brought her into the world of theater. Now, years later, she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides with Dalton Barnes. He's lived in Redstone all his life and hates how the big-city out-of-towners are...

Margie Kinnard has dreamed for years of trying her luck in Hollywood and is thrilled when the father she barely knows agrees to take her there. But her troubles start the moment she steps into his truck, especially when rough-hewn Brady Hoyt and his niece join them. Tragedy strikes, someone turns traitor, and a dangerous piece of Brady's past threatens them all.