LaVyrle Spencer

LaVyrle Spencer explores the true meaning of unconditional love in this powerful New York Times bestseller.
High school principal Tom Gardner feels a sense of shock when he sees Kent Arens, a new transfer student. With one glance, Tom can see that this teenager is the son he never knew he had-the result of a one-night stand on the eve of his wedding years before, now grown into an intelligent, athletic, and polite young man. But...

LaVyrle Spencer, known for her "heartrending slices of Americana" writes of how love can be more special the second time around in this bestseller. It is 1916 and Roberta Jewett is surprised to find that her hometown of Camden, Maine, considers a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no...

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved, enduring stories...
 
Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin’s life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme—to become Karl Lindstrom’s mail-order bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota.
 
A kind and gentle man, Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions. But there was...

"Devastated by the death of her husband in a plane crash, Maggie returns to her home town in Door Country and is reunited with her former high-school boyfriend and first love, Eric Severson, now married." --

Sarah Merritt arrives in the town of Deadwood in 1876, determined to start its first newspaper and to find her runaway sister, but she soon runs afoul of handsome Sheriff Noah Campbell, who arrests her.

November of the heart: At the turn of the century, Lorna Barnett, from a wealthy St. Paul family, and Jens Harken, the ambitious dreamer who works in the kitchen of her family's summer estate, are trapped by a rigid class system when they begin a clandestine affair.

Raised by eccentric grandparents, Elly is recently widowed and left with two boys and pregnant with a third child. Facing ridicule from fellow citizens of Whitney, Georgia, she places a classified ad in the local paper for a husband. A drifter discovers the ad and appears at Elly's doorstep.

A grief-stricken widower learns to open his heart again in this touching and emotionally charged novel from New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer…
A man of unshakable faith, Eddie Olczak derives intense pleasure from the life he’s built with his beloved wife, Krystyna, and their two daughters. But when a tragic accident cuts Krystyna’s life short, Eddie is sure his heart is broken forever.
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Agatha was the picture of primness and propriety, but her green eyes could blaze with anger-or sparkle with humor; Scott was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong; They were enemies, then friends. Then the sweet innocence of a child opened their eyes and their hearts-and they were reborn in each others arms by the soft, wondrous gift of love; Annotation. In the late 1800s, a southern gambler moves...

Bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved stories-about a woman who must look past the surface to see true beauty within . . . Allison Scott has her mind on her career. As an up-and-coming photographer, she has neither the time nor the inclination for an affair-especially since her last attempt at love with a handsome model shattered her dreams of rising to the top with a partner by her side. Now, Allison is determined...