Kim Vogel Sawyer

As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking...

"Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard is expected to stay home and take care of her mother, but she dreams of starting her own family. While operating a silk loom at the Cotton States and International Exposition, she meets Langdon Rochester, whose parents have given him an ultimatum to settle down or lose his inheritance. Believing that the besotted Laurel will overlook his continued bachelor behavior, Langdon decides to woo her. Meanwhile, Willie...

"A Mennonite widower struggling to raise his mischievous boys becomes the unwilling target of the well-intentioned women's benevolent society in this heartwarming romance inspired by historical events-from the bestselling author of Freedom's Song"-- Provided by publisher.

"Ten-year-old Hazel takes her three-year-old sister to pick berries in a blackberry thicket in 1943, and only one of them comes home again. Young Hazel's world crumbles, the weight of the guilt from that colors every relationship in her life for the next seventy years. But now Hazel's granddaughter Meghan is a cold case agent and has an opportunity to investigate this very personal family mystery. What she uncovers could provide healing for three...

"While her husband, Warren, travels around selling items from his wagon, Neva runs their mercantile and cares for their twins. Then a deputy arrives with the shocking news that Warren and his wife died, and their last request was that their three children go to 'Aunt Neva'"--From the publisher's web site.

Their beloved little home was full of love... but it still felt empty. Samantha and Adam Klaassen started married life in the cozy little home built into the hill at the back of the Klaassen family farm. When they began looking forward to their own family, they knew they would need a real house with more room. But now the silent bedrooms in the farmhouse built with such love and hopefulness by her husband haunt Samantha's days and nights. Why does...

A rich, heartwarming story about discovering God's love, acceptance, and healing for even the most damaged hearts It's 1917, and Samantha O'Brien, seventeen years old, runs away from Wisconsin to Minnesota to escape a drunkard father and broken home. She is accepted with open arms into the Klaassen family, German-Mennonites who show both love and patience to this lonely and defensive girl. Samantha's fractured childhood and its devastating losses...