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The Husband Tree

Mary Connealy · 315 pages

"Standing over her third no-account husband's grave, Belle Tanner makes a vow--no more men. Now all she needs to do is get her cattle to market before winter sets in. But there's no one around except the drifter Silas Harden, and Belle is such a poor judge of men that she can't decide if he is worth hiring on. Silas just escaped a shotgun wedding--only to lose his money, his ranch, and his pride.

Widowed ProtagonistSingle MotherChristian FictionRural Farm
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Love Comes Softly

Janette Oke · 192 pages

WHEN MARTY CLARIDGE'S HUSBAND IS KILLED IN A HORSE ACCIDENT, SHE MARRIES CLARK DAVIS, WHO IS IN NEED OF A MOTHER FOR HIS DAUGHTER, MISSIE. AS TIME PROGRESSES MARTY BEGINS TO ATTACH TO LITTLE MISSIE AND CLARK. WHEN THE WAGON TRAIN RETURNS IN THE SPRING WILL SHE GO HOME, OR STAY WITH CLARK AND MISSIE?

Widowed ProtagonistChristian FictionSingle MotherRural Farm
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When Sparrows Fall

Meg Moseley · 344 pages

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A Promise of Hope

Amy Clipston · 428 pages

An Amish widow with newborn twins discovers her deceased husband had disturbing secrets. As she tries to come to grips with the past, she considers a loveless marriage to ensure stability for her young family ... with her faith in God hanging in the balance.

Single MotherChristian FictionWidowed ProtagonistFamily Secrets
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The Outsider

Penelope Williamson · 512 pages

After Rachel Yoder's husband is murdered by outlaws in an act of outrageous greed, she must raise her 10-year-old son alone on the Montana Plains. One day, a handsome stranger dying from a gunshot wound walks into her ranch. With simple kindness, she treats his injury and nurses him back to health. Soon Rachel finds herself drawn to this mysterious outsider with a violent past--and must put her fu

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Going Home

Wanda E. Brunstetter · 188 pages

It was a very good book.It gave some of the triditions of the amish church ,and used many German-Dutch words.The story was about,an amish woman who came back home to a old order amish community,to give her daughter a stable home.As soon as her daughter gets settled in, she will go back to the "English"world.But,she unexpectedly falls in love.Excellent story.I would recamend this to anyone.

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Sixteen Brides

Stephanie Grace Whitson · 348 pages

Sixteen Civil War widows settle in Nebraska after they are wooed by a land speculator, only to discover that they were lured there in hopes that they would accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival.

Widowed ProtagonistChristian FictionRural FarmFemale Lead
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Land of My Heart

Tracie Peterson · 392 pages

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The Liar

Nora Roberts · 583 pages

Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions. The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed. Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfo

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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

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Sixty Acres and a Bride

Regina Jennings

Christian FictionWidowed ProtagonistRural FarmFemale Lead
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A Widow's Hope

Mary Ellis · 299 pages

A bright new voice shares a tender love story set in the rolling green fields of Ohio Amish country. After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister’s family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly starts to fly. Her deacon brother–in–law finds just about everything abou

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The Mistress of Tall Acre

Laura Frantz · 395 pages

In the aftermath of the American Revolution a destitute young woman agrees to a marriage of convenience and becomes Mistress of Tall Acre. But when secrets from her husband's past are revealed, loyalties and ties are torn asunder.

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The Guardian

Beverly Lewis · 345 pages

When Jodi Winfield comes to Lancaster to house-sit, the last thing she expects to find is a disheveled little girl alone on the side of the road. The young teacher is mystified when she learns there have been no reports of a missing child, and the girl herself is of no help, since she can't speak English. It's as if the child appeared out of nowhere. Then Jodi turns her attention to Hickory Hollow

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Amish Widow's Hope

Samantha Price · 208 pages

Newly widowed Amish woman, Anita Graber, has returned to live with her brother and his family in Lancaster County. As an expectant widow, she is quite surprised when everyone from the bishop's wife to her brother decides that her baby needs a father. Anita endures many embarrassing moments as she's forced into one awkward situation after another. Even though another man is the last thing on her mi

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The Lamp of the Wicked

Phil Rickman · 431 pages

Overshadowed by high-voltage power lines, the unlovely village of Underhowle is on the brink of a new prosperity after half a century of decay. But the community is also home a to a man the police have identified as the killer of several young women. Had it not been for the Rev Merrily Watkins, Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, and her gravedigger, Gomer Parry, the truth might nev

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Mine Is the Night

Liz Curtis Higgs

The emotional and spiritual journey that began with Here Burns My Candle soars to a triumphant finish in Mine Is the Night, a dramatic and decidedly Scottish retelling of the biblical love story of Boaz and Ruth.

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Widow of Gettysburg

Jocelyn Green · 454 pages

"The farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is confiscated and converted into a Confederate field hospital, bringing Liberty face-to-face with unspeakable suffering. In the wake of shattered homes and broken bodies, Liberty and Bella, her hired help and a former slave, struggle to pick up the fragments the battle has left behind"--

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A Noble Groom

Jody Hedlund · 363 pages

Recently widowed Annalisa Werner has the feeling her husband was murdered but can't prove it. Alone with her young daughter in 1881 Michigan, she has six months left to finish raising the money needed to pay back the land contract her husband purchased, and the land is difficult to toil by herself. She needs a husband. With unmarried men scarce, her father sends a letter to his brother in the Old

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Lonestar Sanctuary

Colleen Coble · 312 pages

Allie Siders retreats to the peaceful Bluebird Ranch in the Texas hill country with her five-year-old daughter Betsy, both to hide from a dangerous stalker and in the hopes that Betsy will heal enough to speak again. There she meets ranch foreman Rick Bailey and learns to love again.

Christian FictionSingle MotherRomanceFemale Lead
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Whirlwind

Cathy Marie Hake · 375 pages

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A Necessary Deception

Laurie Alice Eakes · 346 pages

"When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never dreamed he would turn up in her parlor. But just as the London Season is getting under way, there he is, along with a few other questionable personages. While she should be focused on helping her headstrong younger sister prepare for her entre into London society, Lady Lydia finds herself preoccupied with the myster

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Waiting for Summer's Return

Kim Vogel Sawyer · 348 pages

All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment in a small Mennonite community in order to be near the graves of her family. Widower Peter Ollenburger, the local gristmill owner, needs someone to

Christian FictionWidowed ProtagonistRomanceFemale Lead
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Midwives

Chris Bohjalian · 312 pages

Sibyl is a respected midwife, accused of murder after she performs a caesarian on a mother whom she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. A trial ensues to decide whether Sibyl has committed murder. The story is told from Sibyl's daughter's viewpoint.

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