Meet Rainey Valentine: thirty-five, twice divorced, a woman with broken dreams but irrepressible hope. When her mother dies she inherits a truck, an old barrel-racing mare, and a lifetime supply of Mary Kay cosmetics. Rainey packs it all up and heads off,
Looking for real life. The scrawled graffiti on the bathroom wall was innocent enough, cliched even. But for Claire Wilder, it was a wake-up call: start searching for your roots and find the happiness you lost long ago. Divorced from her high school sweet
Marilee James's life consists of caring for her special-needs son, playing surrogate mother to her niece, and temporarily running the local paper until the new managing editor arrives. Tate Holloway speeds into town in his fancy sports car and begins a pa
To reconcile with her folks back East and give her kids grandparents for Christmas, truck stop waitress Lacey Bryant arranged transportation with her steadiest customer. Little did she know she'd hitched a ride with Scrooge! Eighteen hundred miles confine
Curtiss Ann Matlock takes readers back to Valentine, Oklahoma, to see Christmas through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Corrine, a girl who has everything she wants, including a happy life with her aunt Marilee and "Papa" Tate, her beloved horses and an "al
So what if Winston Valentine is ninety-two years old? He isn't dead yet! And he's out to prove it. His exuberant show of life—coming to you live from radio dial 1550—revitalizes Valentine, Oklahoma, for its centennial celebration. The townsfolk are de
You might meet them at the coffee shop, the grocery store, or walking down the street. They're women across North America committed to reaching out and changing lives one good deed at a time. Five of these exceptional women have been selected as this year
