Angela Hunt

Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder is proud of three things: her immaculate VW Jetta, her status as a strong single woman, and her ability to whip out her Tampa Times column, "The Heart Healer," in record time. But when her editor learns that "The Hear Healer" ranked last in a recent reader poll, Peyton is given only three weeks to change either her column or her job. Then the unthinkable happens. PanWorld Flight 848, en route from New York's LaGuardia...

A fictionalized retelling of the Maccabean uprising against Syrian rule.

"Yeshua of Nazareth has two sisters: Damaris, married to a wealthy merchant's son, and Pheodora, married to a simple shepherd from Bethlehem. When Pheodora's husband suffers an unexpected reversal of fortune and is thrown into debtor's prison, she returns to Nazareth, where she pins her hopes on two she-goats who should give birth to spotless white kids that would be perfect for the upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice. In the eighteen months between the...

"Disciple Matthew, a former tax collector, is invited to work with Peter, James, and John in Jerusalem. He dreams of preaching and performing miracles like his fellow apostles, but he finds his dreams postponed because of a request from Yeshua's mother. Well aware of the passing years, Mary asks Matthew to help her record the stories of Yeshua while the eyewitnesses are still alive. Reluctantly, he agrees, though the longer he and Mary work together,...

A long-lost love and an overdue order. A crucial secret and gingerbread cookies. Holidays and holy days overlap as the angels work overtime on the Island of Heavenly Daze. Vernie Bidderman, proud owner of the Mooseleuk Mercantile, is flabbergasted when the phone rings with a message from her husband Stanley. Trouble is, she hasn't heard from him since the night he left to go bowling and forgot to come home twenty years ago. Is he dying from some dread...

Edith is trying to lose weight in every way imaginable to get into a certain dress by the time Salt and Birdie's April wedding rolls around. Olympia dies suddenly, leaving her daughter Annie the beloved old house, which she can't afford to keep and maintain on her professor's salary. Leaving it would be cutting herself off from Heavenly Daze, and she can't bring herself to do that, although A.J. is urging her to move to New York to be near him. Plus,...

Twenty-two years have passed since Joseph last set sight on the ten sons of Israel. He is overwhelmed by the memory of their treachery when they sold him into slavery. As his brothers journey to Egypt to buy grain, Joseph detains them. Joseph decrees that Simeon must remain under house arrest. Simeon is angry at his confinement. Mandisa, the widowed handmaid of Joseph's wife is assigned to serve the angry Simeon. Their love grows but Simeon must come...

It's November, and as the residents of Heavenly Daze, Maine, are preparing for winter, sacks of undeliverable mail pour in to postmistress Beatrice Coughlin. The requests are different, but the salutation is the same: "Dear Angel ..." Perplexed, Bea and her sister Birdie consider answering them under the moniker "angel assistants." But where will they get the funds to help these folks? And as Thanksgiving approaches, will the bickering islanders make...

Presents the story of Jesus' birth and the arrival of the wise men and shepherds at the manger.