Orem Library

Set in 1930s Louisiana, a young woman makes a new life for herself after she runs away from home.

17 years old and terribly alone, Cherish Riley runs into the Kentucky wilderness from the low-down family that dared to sell her. She meets a man named Sloan Carroll, who proposes to her, but he finds that it will take a little more to win her heart.

"Buckton, Indiana, 1956. As post-war America brims with new opportunities, a young woman discovers the courage to follow her dreams-and her heart. Gwendolyn Foster's life seems like a dream come true. A bright future in front of her, the successful, traditional man her parents wanted at her side. What more could a girl ask for? But Gwen has a different dream altogether-to be a writer-and she won't rest until it comes true. Strong arms to support her,...

The oilmen of Rainwater call Jill Jones a little wildcat. She doesn't take guff, and she'll use a broomstick on any roustabout who dares to spit on the porch of her Aunt Justine's hotel. The youngest of the Jones clan of Fertile, Missouri, Jill may find that her bravado is not enough to handle what lies ahead: a fight for the hotel, a killer stalking local women, and the arrival of good-looking, take-charge Thad Taylor, who arouses both her temper...

Charlotte Tucker has always followed her heart, and now it leads her to one of Oklahoma's largest ranches where she can teach in her very own schoolhouse. When suspicious accidents put the ranch-and lives-in jeopardy, Charlotte believes in the one man no one else trusts and asks him to help her uncover the truth. There's bad blood between the ranch owner and its newest hand, Owen Wallace, but Owen is as brave as he is caring, risking even his own...

Managing a Depression-era garage in Oklahoma while his friend recovers from an animal bite, Yates finds himself falling in love with his friend's babysitter and housekeeper, who has scandalized the town by living with her employer.

Taking a nursing job in a small town after the end of World War II, Christina Tucker finds herself being romantically pursued by her employer's two sons and is targeted in a revenge plot by one of Dr. Barlow's former disgruntled patients.

She thought shed escaped the man -- and the memories -- but Tom Clary suddenly appeared in Minnesota to summon her home. Without hesitation, Beth Marshall left her hospital job and made the hazardous winter journey back to Cody, Wyoming with the brash cowboy she'd tried so hard to forget. Beth couldn't refuse Tom's imperious demand to return to nurse her ailing sister. But how could she share Tom's house, where her sister now lived; The powerful enchantment...

In Oklahoma, 1938, though scarcity and hardship have taken their toll on the spirit of the nation, one young woman still dares to dream. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for investment in a newspaper, but then trouble strikes.

Julie Jones knows what she is: a country girl, not beautiful but presentable, in skirts too long to be fashionable. A responsible young woman who has been raising her brothers and sisters since her mother's death and helping her father on their hardscrabble farm. Secretly, she wishes someone she could love would find her special enough to come courting.