Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...

Enjoy again a tale of friendship, faith and finding your destiny in this classic women's fiction novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. They were sisters once. In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common-the desire to join a religious order and serve as best they can. Despite the seclusion of the convent house in...

YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.y.

Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Pascal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is...

When a woman lawyer teams up with a Catholic priest to stop the building of a nuclear storage facility on an Indian reservation she must cope with death threats, an attempt on her life, and an intense attraction to the priest.

National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage. From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community. Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected...

While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho on the Wind River Reservation and a hit-and-run accident in Denver, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that both of the deaths may have been murders and set out to expose the dark secrets over which someone is willing to kill.

"Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container. When a young woman who is preparing to become a nun suddenly inherits her wealthy uncle's estate, her attempts to improve the lot of the less fortunate by making her newfound riches available to them backfire.