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Rose, married for three years, decides she has made a mistake and leaves her husband, traveling from California to Kentucky to take up residence in a home for unwed mothers where she plans to have her baby and give it up for adoption, but she soon discovers life still holds some surprises.

New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of two undying love affairs. . . .

Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For...

A nun falls in love with the father of two girls she teaches in the Polish community of 1950s Browerville, Minnesota. It happens after the girl's mother is killed in an accident. A tale of frustrated desire, until she leaves the Church for him.

At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's...

Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.

"St. Mary's infirmary garden was a place for the growing of healing herbs and a place of quiet for those nuns who had been ill. The fact that it was designed for serenity and comfort made it doubly wrong to find Master Montfort sprawled out on the grass there. Dead."--Jacket.

Returning home to her brother's estate only to discover that her son's nurse has been found brutally murdered and that her son is missing, Sister Fidelma of Cashel draws on every resource at her disposal to rescue her missing child.

Summoned by her brother, the king, when the body of a murdered noble is discovered near Cashel in 670 Ireland, Fidelma and her companion, Eadulf, follow scanty clues linking the victim a violent uprising under the leadership of a religious fanatic. By the author of Behold a Pale Horse.

In fifteenth-century England, Dame Frevisse reluctantly leaves the sanctuary of her nunnery for the intrigues, high politics, and treachery of the royal court as she becomes embroiled in a plot that could threaten the throne of England itself.