Due to traumatic family circumstances, Rebekah Bradford is forced to sign an indentured servant contract to leave her home in London and work for a Philadelphia Quaker family.
Rebekah's journey through life takes her from servanthood to wife and mother and business woman during a period when Quakers were struggling to maintain their identity as the colony attempted to find a place in history that was often in stark conflict with its founder, William Penn.
"Strength in Weakness"
Quaker women in the 18th century were known as the First Women Feminists. Their strength in spite of tremendous adversity has been an inspiration to generations.
Through the eyes of Scampy Churchouse readers learn about God's love, who Jesus is and why he died. They learn how God is a Father, a Son, and a Spirit all at the same them as they read about God's protective love of Scampy's family.
A bizarre incident at Rocky Bluff High School triggers Edith Harkness's retirment as a home economics teacher, and the start of her so-called golden years. While Edith, a widow, mother, and grandmother, is at a crossroads in her life, her son Bob, the manager of the family hardware store, views his mother's future as a dead end. He's ready to pack her off to Arizona or the local nursing home, and then he just might move into her house! Then Edith meets Roy Dutton, and the last thing she ever expected happens to her. Life can begin again.... but only when propelled by a powerful faith and the love and trust of one's family.
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Contagious Love
Edith Harkness Dutton feels the good old days are gone forever, and for good reason. Despite the promise of Edith's joyous second marriage to Roy Dutton in the autumn of her life, in this Montana hamlet is anything but blissful. A former standout high school basketball star abuses his wife and is now stalking her despite a court-imposed restraining order. Edith's son, Bob Harkness, struggles desperately to save the family hardware store from bankruptcy only to watch it go up in flames. Roy always seems more tired then he should. As these seemingly events entwine, Edith is drawn into a maelstrom of emotions and needs. Never before has her unwavering faith and contagious love been in such demand.
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Inspired Love
A single parent, Beth Slater has finally carved out a life for herself and her four-year-old son in Rocky Bluff, Montana. Thanks to Edith Dutton, a Crisis Center telephone volunteer to whom she once turned for help, Beth now has a dream to cling to and the means to achieve it. As her dream unravels, Beth's friends gather the thin strands of her life and uphold her the best way they know, in prayer. For Beth to survive, she needs first to claim an inspired life, the love of her Heavenly Father, and then the love of a godly man. The crises and concerns of men and women of all ages and backgrounds are depicted lovingly and passionately in this third book of the Rocky Bluff Chronicles.
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Distant Love
When a fiery tragedy strikes the close-knit community of Rocky Bluff, Montana, residents once again come together. At the center of the "support team" is Edith Dutton, who, with her husband, Roy, has shown family, friends, and strangers the strength of love in the mature years. Retired school librarian Rebecca Sutherland, another respected member of the community, is determined not to just sit there and feel sorry. Although she is preparing to leave for a two-year position in Guam, Rebecca and fire chief Andy Hatfield attempt to unravel the mystery of the fire. Through ensuing times of outrage and loneliness, Rebecca and Andy discover romance and real love after age fifty can happen for them too. Yet will their love become as distant as Rebecca's island home, or will it continue to flourish, guided only by the Lord?
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Healing Love
In just a few days, Angie Quinata, will graduate with honors as a beautician from Guam Community College and then she has an excellent chance for a prize job at the top salon in town. Not to mention she's dating the most eligible bachelor on the island, Jay Harkness. And then the unthinkable happens. The victim of an unspeakable crime, Angie must find a way to climb slowly and surely out of her dark abyss. With encouragement from her doctors and friends, her shattered life begins to heal, for a time.
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Compassionate Love
Teresa Lennon, after enduring years in an abusive marriage, has immersed herself in her work at the Spousal Abuse Center. Pastor Bryan Olson, newly arrived in Rocky Bluff, Montana, has found his ministry and his walk with God to be rich and satisfying. Once he to was hurt by love. But that was before Bryan realizes that Teresa has spoken to a part of his heart he never knew existed. And certainly before town matriarch Edith Harkness Dutton intercedes. She knows firsthand how wonderful love can be when it comes by surprise later in life. Will Teresa and Bryan be able to open their lives to true love, at long last?
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Love Remembered
Dawn Harkness has been happy for several years with her career as an obstetrical nurse. She gained a sense of fulfillment and achievement by using her God-given gifts to help young families. When Sarah, a teenaged unwed mother, needs her help, Dawn opens her home to the girl without hesitation. But when Ryan Reynolds, an old friend from her past, comes into her life, Dawn hesitates. Are love and marriage in God's plans for her life? And if so, where will they lead her? Away from friends and family or back to the home she loves.
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Love Abounds
Sarah Brown is the unwed mother of Charity, a child with spina bifada. She is struggling to complete her education and obtain custody of her child. With God's help, her life is starting to come together. Jeff Blair has followed his dad's footsteps by fathering a child out of wedlock. Now he blames little Charity's health situation on his lack of knowledge of his own father's medical background. He is doing his best to be available to his daughter, and he's amazed at how comfortable he is with Sarah and Charity. But would Jeff be willing to commit to anyone for a lifetime? And now that Sarah is making strides toward her future, would considering a life with Jeff be a step backward?
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Mended Wheels
Carol Pine and her golden retriever, Prince, have been together for four years, living in a small house on a tree-lined street in Columbia, Missouri. Prince is a wonderful companion, but Carol is lonely. Her job as a graphic designer and her involvement in church keep her busy, but she longs for the love of a caring man. Each time Carol meets an interesting guy, something stops the relationship from going forward. That something, Carol knows, is her wheelchair - necessary since she was born with spina bifida. It isn't until Lorenzo Martinez steps into her life that she thinks her dream might come true. She wonders, though, why such a handsome, compassionate man would want to be with her when he could have his choice of any woman. Only in the pain of loss - and in sensing God's great love for her - does she find the answer to her questions.
