LaVyrle Spencer

The Arrival of a new transfer student spells emotional upheaval for the Gardner family when it is revealed that he is the result of a brief affair that Tom Gardner, a devoted family man and high-school principal, had years earlier.

In the farmlands of Minnesota in the early 20th century. Mary became the wife of Jonathan Gray and took up her life in the wheat fields. They lived a quiet, placid, hard-working life working on the farm that Jonathan inherited from his parents. Jonathan's brother Aaron shares farming duties and lives in the house with them, since the house was his inheritance too. They seem to have a satisfying life, but after 7 years of marriage, Jonathan and Mary...

The classic New York Times bestseller.
Lee Reston has a fulfilling life imbued with the love of her three wonderful children. Then a shattering event-the loss of her oldest son, Greg-tears her world apart. In her anguish, she turns to police officer Christopher Lallek, Greg's best friend. Their shared mourning develops into friendship, and then something deeper. But life is never simple. The family that was once the core of her...

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents a beautiful and moving tale of a false marriage that leads to true love.
The wedding of Clay Forrester and Catherine Anderson was the social event of the season. It seemed like a page out of a fairy tale. But everything about it—from the formal vows to the magnificent reception—was a lie. Catherine had reluctantly agreed to Clay’s “marriage of convenience”—and...

Bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved stories—about a woman who must look past the surface to see true beauty within…
Allison Scott has her mind on her career. As an up-and-coming photographer, she has neither the time nor the inclination for an affair—especially since her last attempt at love with a handsome model shattered her dreams of rising to the top with a partner by her side.
Now, Allison...

Raised by eccentric grandparents, Elly is recently widowed and left with two boys and pregnant with a third child. Facing ridicule from fellow citizens of Whitney, Georgia, she places a classified ad in the local paper for a husband. A drifter discovers the ad and appears at Elly's doorstep.

The endearment: Anna Reardon escapes a shameful life in Boston by becoming the mail-order bride of Karl Lindstrom and finds all her strength and courage tested as she struggles to build a new world for herself in the rugged wilderness of nineteenth-century Minnesota--Novelist. Bitter sweet: Shattered by the loss of her husband, Maggie moves back to her small Wisconsin hometown, where she encounters her high school sweetheart, who is stuck in a passionless...

Sarah Merritt arrives in the town of Deadwood in 1876, determined to start its first newspaper and to find her runaway sister, but she soon runs afoul of handsome Sheriff Noah Campbell, who arrests her.