After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love. Michael faces his own challenges when he loses his greatest love, Faye. When Michael is falsely accused of abusing one of the Arcadia's residents, he learns important lessons about faith and forgiveness from Ester -- and her gift to him...

Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow are young lovers who marry on the eve of Faye's departure for medical school. While the bonds of matrimony and faith pull them together, the troubles of the real world do sunder: disapproving parents, work demands, distance, death, and an unplanned pregnancy. As in his earlier novel, The Christmas Box, nostalgia and emotion run unchecked, to the delight of most readers. This is not the great American novel, but...

To honor her is to love her. Left at the altar, humiliated and alone, Faith is beside herself with embarrassment and the looks which said I told you so. Never would she expect her salvation would come in the form of a piece of jewelry from a stranger, and her school yard tormentor. Tobias/Toby Lloyd has always liked Faith when growing up, but she never gave him a second thought no matter how hard he'd tried to get her attention. Now she was in trouble...

The World is balanced on a precipice: The slippery slope leading right into hell. And all it would take for the world to topple down, is for Hitler to sneeze.Lovers, Elsbet a propagandist working for Germany, and Ian, an intelligence analyst and a finder of spies for the MI5, are torn apart by a war Ian saw coming but Elsbet refused to acknowledge.Covertly, Ian travels to Germany to compel Elsbet's return, and in November, 1939, after England has...