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Is love enough to overcome the tragedies and hardships thrown at them?

In the spring of 1856, Emmalin Hammond decides the Oregon Territory is not the place for her and chooses to return to her Philadelphia home. But mountain man, Jacob Landon, has other ideas. With an unexpected profession of love, he asks her to marry him and share his life in the Oregon wilderness.

Before they can marry, a string of misfortunes tests her desire to step into the role of a pioneer woman. Though determined, Emmalin soon recognizes she may be deceiving herself. Is the life she’s chosen out of reach?

Will hidden secrets destroy the love they’ve built?

In the early 1800’s, the wondrous land of Australia is full of possibilities as settlers stake their claims. Hannah and John settle their own piece of land in New South Wales and have hopes of starting a family, but their dreams for the future are clouded with trouble.  As they try unsuccessfully to have a baby, Hannah suffers from guilt over her past. What she hasn’t told her husband about this chapter of her life haunts her and threatens to destroy their relationship.

Don’t miss this heartrending second book in the Sydney Cove series!

Reader Reviews: “Both old and new fans will be swept away by the torrent of emotions in the second installment of the Sydney Cove series. Readers will be happily reacquainted with Hannah and John as they begin the next chapter in their lives. Leon does a wonderful job creating emotional drama rolled into secrecy, betrayal and blackmail. The longing to be accepted and loved in spite of our sin casts a powerful light on the theme of redemption.” –Romantic Times 4 Star Review

Hannah Talbot has no one. Forced to leave the only home she’s ever known, she works for a cruel employer who brutally takes the one thing she has left—her dignity. Defiled and facing the compounded shame of pregnancy, Hannah prays for the child’s death. When an ensuing miscarriage crushes her beneath a burden of guilt and shame, Hannah is certain her sin is too great for even a benevolent God to forgive.

John Bradshaw was a successful businessman whose untamed spirit sometimes wanted more. When he is betrayed by those closest to him, he loses everything—his wife, his business, even his freedom.

Then John and Hannah’s paths cross aboard a ghastly, nineteenth-century prison ship en route to Australia. Can they find a way to keep hope alive and learn to trust the encompassing love of a merciful God?

Reader Reviews: “The best part of this book (besides the delectable romance) was probably the spiritual portion. Hannah had every reason to believe God had abandoned her. She responded like any human would in a similar situation. Of course God never left her, but the journey she took toward that realization was awesome. I loved this story! “–Michelle Sutton, Edgy Inspirational Reviewer

“Bonnie’s fans will love cheering for her characters. No protagonists more deserve a happy ending.”–Bette Nordberg, author of A Season of Grace

“Hannah’s predicament hooked me on the first page and kept me turning pages through the entire book. This may be Bonnie’s best book yet.”–Jeannie St. John Taylor, author, illustrator, speaker “Bonnie Leon has masterfully written another moving story full of page-turning excitement. I love her ability to write life onto a page in a way we all can relate to.”–Maxine Marsolini, author of Raising Children in Blended Families and Blended Families

The terrible drought continues in Thornton Creek, parching the land and the strength of all who live there. After a devastating fire eats up most of Douloo and leaves them with barely enough to survive, Daniel and Rebecca Thornton are forced to go to extremes to provide for their growing family. Can hope be found in such a barren land?

Before Rebecca Thornton arrived at Douloo Station, she knew it would be very different from her beloved Boston. But she never imagined what troubles awaited her and her new husband, Daniel, or how their faith would be tested.

In the midst of a serious drought, Daniel’s heart becomes as parched as the flat prairie around him. And though she’s surrounded by family, Rebecca’s dreams of a happy life seem to be slipping away.  Can Rebecca and Daniel overcome the drought in their land and in their souls?

When proper Bostonian Rebecca Williams follows handsome Australian Daniel Thornton to his family’s Queensland cattle station, she’s in for a few surprises. Daniel’s father, Bertram, not only controls the prosperous ranch, but everything and everybody for miles around–including his son. Will Rebecca adjust to the bullying, or will Bertram drive the young couple apart?

In this conclusion to the Matanuska Series, Luke’s feelings of resentment, anger, and betrayal continue to fester after Jean and Ray’s wedding. He decides he must leave Alaska. Knowing that he needs to change his life, he searches the Bible for guidance, realizing like Jonah, he has been running from God. Can Luke return home to make peace with all the things that drove him away?

When Will Harper dies, Ray Townsend struggles to come to grips with the guilt he feels. Acting on a promise to Will, Ray tries to help Jean, Will’s widow, and her family. But not everyone in the family wants the man responsible for Will’s death to be around. Everyone, including Ray, knows that he is everything Will Harper was not. How can Ray find the peace and forgiveness he seeks when he cannot forgive himself?

Brought to their knees by the Great Drought of the 1930s, Will Hasper and his family give up their farm in Wisconsin to join a federal government project starting a colony of transplanted farmers in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska.

However, the colonists meet resistance from earlier homesteaders in the Valley and their leader, Ray Townsend. Laurel, Will’s daughter, who put aside her own desires and dreams to follow her family to Alaska, finds herself torn between two men vying for her love—Adam, a reporter writing a story on the colony’s experiences, and Robert, a colonist who can offer Laurel the stability she needs. If the colony is going to survive, they must all learn to trust God’s promises.

In the third and final installment of this dynamic saga, Yuri fights valiantly for faith and freedom against the stranglehold of communism. His sister, Tatyana, searches for contentment in her new land. Will these young Russian heroes finally find each other again?

Life in America isn’t easy for Dimitri and Tatyana. Faced with the grim prospects of the Depression, Dimitri travels cross-country looking for a job to pay for his wife’s passage to the Northwest. Penniless and heartbroken, he becomes painfully aware that in the land of the free, everything has a price. In this second book of the Sowers Trilogy, Tatyana and Dimitri brave dangerous underground mines, harsh Northwest winds, and the political bigotry of their neighbors to make a bright and shining way for their unborn child. But even as they prosper, Tatyana fears for her brother, imprisoned thousands of miles away in a Russian work camp.

The year is 1930. Under the command of Joseph Stalin and the communist regime, Russian peasants are ordered to surrender their property and work on collective farms. Yuri Letinov stands against oppression with his fellow farmers while he forces his sister, Tatyana, to sail to America and avoid the gathering danger. While pursuing their separate destinies, Yuri and Tatyana must come to terms with the crumbling economic and political systems around them as they discover their true places in the world and in God’s kingdom.

As World War I breaks out, the arranged marriage of Mary Matroona, an 18-year-old Aleut girl, to Sean Calhoun, an Irish immigrant, begins a story of enduring human spirit and the power of love to break through every barrier.

This young couple, strangers to each other, settles on an island called Unalga, located on the remote eastern rim of the Aleutian Chain of Alaska. As their adventure begins, so do their troubles and struggles, but as the months roll by, they discover their own strengths and weaknesses, a need to know God, and their love for one another. Stranded with few supplies, attacks from a poacher, and nearly losing each other to death, they discover something sacred on Unalga.