Jane Peart
Author
Series
Westward dreams series volume 1
Description
Holly Lambeth has traveled 2,000 miles from her home in Kentucky to escape the humiliation of her broken engagement. Holly has come west to find a new life, but her cousin's chilly reception suggests that she has made a terrible mistake.
Author
Series
Westward dreams series volume 5
Description
Free-spirited journalist Independence McClaren follows her heart to a Colorado silver-town-and a test of her fierce commitment to the truth. Mindy's birth name is Independence McClaren-a fitting match for her tenacity and determination. Leaving behind a secure but colorless future in the east, the fiery young woman heads west to Coarse Gold, Colorado, and the opportunity to carve her mark in a man's world. As reporter for the Roaring River Gazette,...
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 15
Pub. Date
2000
Description
When Joy Montrose received her commission to paint a mural depicting the healing miracles of Jesus at Good Samaritan Hospital, she never anticipated forming a close friendship with Evan Marshall. But the bond between the talented young artist and the gifted surgeon has grown, even though their lives are worlds apart. Now, with the family estate falling suddenly and unexpectedly into Joy's hands, she finds herself sifting not only through the memorabilia...
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 3
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Slowly she turned to face the door just as Graham came through at full stride. At the sight of him a wild kind of joy seized her. Graham halted on the threshold. He drew in his breath sharply, and in spite of himself, his pulse thundered at the sight of the tall, willowy figure. The last time he had seen Avril she had been a child. Here in her place was a graceful young woman. "Avril, my dear," he said, finding his voice. "Welcome home!" Fortune's...
Author
Series
Westward dreams series volume 3
Description
Penny Sayres' red hair, freckle-splashed skin, and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed - because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! Since her childhood, she has sensed an unknown destiny beckoning from the horizon. When Penny's brother, Brad, invites her to join his family on their wagon train to California, Penny's dream of adventure comes...
6) The pattern
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Formats
Description
Johanna Shelby could never have anticipated where that "fateful encounter" would lead her. She could not have known then how love for the young, rough-hewn, mountain doctor would cause her to turn her back on her privileged lifestyle, threaten to estrange her from her family, and bring her to the wild mountains of Appalachia. If she had known . . . But no! Nothing could hold her back. Not her adoring, worried parents. Not her snooty, so-called "friends."...
7) Mirror bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 10
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
"Why, Cara, why did you do it?" "Maybe no one wants to see me as I really am. Maybe in this family it isn't all right to be different. And I am different, Kitty, whether anyone wants to admit it or not." "But, Cara,--it just seems like tonight you set out deliberately to cause trouble." "Even you don't understand, do you, Kitty?" "I do, I mean I'm trying to. You're my twin, I want to understand!" "Yes, I know we're twins, but who am I?" demanded Cara...
10) Shadow bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 7
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
For Rod it was a moment out of a thousand dreams. Yet the reality was more than he could have imagined. "Blythe!" He said her name and in his voice was all the hope he'd thought was lost. The woman he saw was even lovelier than the girl he remembered. She was still as beautiful -- tall, slender, the glorious auburn hair, the soft, vulnerable mouth and peachbloom skin -- as when he had first met her at Montclair. At sixteen, Blythe had been shy, eager...
11) Gallant bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 6
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Blythe gazed into his eyes. It seemed as if she were looking into his very soul. Could she read genuine repentance there . . . or just regret that he had brought shame to himself, disgraced his family? Suddenly, she knew. This was the real Malcolm -- before the War, before Rose died, before his life became a wasteland. She saw the Malcolm who remained uncorrupted -- gentle, intelligent, gallant before tragedy and loss took their bitter toll. Could...
12) Valiant bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 1
Pub. Date
[1989]
Description
Noramary came out of the parlor into the hall. Stunned by what she had just heard, she felt slightly light-headed and leaned against the closed door for a moment to steady herself. The shock of Winnie's elopement during the night had been followed by a second -- the staggering request of her foster parents that she step into her errant cousin's place as the bride of Duncan Montrose! "So you see, my dear, why we must ask this of you?" Aunt Betsy's...
13) Folly's bride
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
"Sara! You must come out! You're wanted downstairs right away," Lucie hissed through the keyhole on the locked bedroom door. "Stepmama is furious and Father has sent word that he's coming home early from the Exchange. She says he's in a rage over what you've done!" "I haven't done anything! It's not my fault if those two hotheads decide to fight a duel!" came her sister's indignant voice from the other side of the door. "Oh, Sara, please!" Lucie pleaded....
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 13
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Follows the Montrose and Cameron families though the turbulent days of the Depression and the start of World War II, and to a family reunion for Aunt Garnet's ninetieth birthday.
15) The pledge
Author
Series
American quilt volume 2
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Part two in a trilogy about three generations of women of courage, character and faith -- tells the story of Jo-Beth and her love for Wesley who alienates himself from friends in the southern town of Hillsboro by choosing to fight for the Union. Includes the pattern for Jo-Beth's quilt.
Author
Series
Westward dreams series volume 2
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Left homeless and penniless after the Civil War, Adelaide heads West to seek a new life and finds romance in the lush Napa Valley.
17) A distant dawn
Author
Series
Westward dreams series volume 4
Description
Story of two children, who after the death of the parents, sell the family farm and head west. It tells of their trials and tribulations.
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 5
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Rose came from the North to become the bride of a wealthy Southern planter. The world she found at Montclair plantation challenged her Christian convictions and set in motion a daring scheme.