Join the fun and feel the romance in various historical communities from Massachusetts to Florida, Missouri to Texas. Meet ladies who take firm stands for their work in mills, orphanages, churches, schools, hospitals, and the like as they dance through courtship with their beaus. Can the nine couples develop lasting loves under the watchful eyes of their neighbors?
Bestselling author Janet Lee Barton is a Romantic Times Book of the Year winner as well as a multiple Carol Award nominee. She and her husband live in Oklahoma and have recently downsized to a condo, which they love. When Janet isn't writing or reading, she loves to cook for family, work in her small garden, travel, and sew.
As the wife of a minister, Susan Downs has lived in towns, big and small, all around the world from her childhood village in Oklahoma to such eclectic states as Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Texas, and even in faraway lands like South Korea. And yet, no matter what her address, wherever her husband of forty-three years is, that's where she calls HOME. Currently, Susan resides in Texas and she is employed as a fiction editor for Guideposts Publications.
Bestselling author Darlene Franklin s greatest claim to fame is that she writes full-time from a nursing home. She lives in Oklahoma, near her son and his family, and continues her interests in playing the piano and singing, books, good fellowship, and reality TV in addition to writing. She is an active member of Oklahoma City Christian Fiction Writers, American Christian Fiction Writers, and the Christian Authors Network. She has written over fifty books and more than 250 devotionals. Her historical fiction ranges from the Revolutionary War to World War II, from Texas to Vermont.
Pamela lives in Texas with her family. Her main goal in writing is to help and encourage those who know the Lord and plant a seed of hope in those who don t, through entertaining stories. She has over fifty titles published to date, in both novels and novellas, and loves to hear from her readers.
Kelly Eileen Hake received her first writing contract at the tender age of seventeen and arranged to wait three months until she was able to legally sign it. Since that first contract a decade ago, she s fulfilled twenty contracts ranging from short stories to novels. In her spare time, she s attained her BA in English literature and composition, earned her credential to teach English in secondary schools, and went on to complete her MA in writing popular fiction.
Writing for Barbour combines two of Kelly s great loves history and reading. A CBA bestselling author and member of American Christian Fiction Writers, she s been privileged to earn numerous Heartsong Presents Reader s Choice Awards and is known for her witty, heartwarming historical romances.
Debby Mayne has published more than 50 books and novellas, 400 print short stories and articles, more than 1,000 web articles, and a bunch of devotions for women. She has been managing editor of a national health magazine, product information fashion writer for HSN, product writer for Zulily, creative writing instructor for the Long Ridge Writers Group, and etiquette expert for About.com. Most of her stories feature strong, southern women who overcome all sorts of obstacles.
DONITA KATHLEEN PAUL has given up on retiring. Each time she retires, she finds a new career. This time she married an author from New Mexico and is resurrecting skills as a wife and homemaker. She s delved into romance, fantasy, history, and is toying with time travel. Writing will always be a part of her life. The more I take time off to allow my body to relax, the more active my brain gets. I m have way too much fun to stop.
