Lost Love

Widow Lara MacLaren hungers for the hunky architect she hires to restore her derelict Scottish manor, but is she ready for a relationship...and is Ian ready for her twins?Ian Paterson is eager to awaken Lara's passionate side. Yet, if he reveals his ancestral claim to her estate, he risks losing her and his job. His clan's history, lost over the years, may be hidden in the wallsalong with a ghost waiting for the laird's return.When they uncover a room full of Jacobite treasure, proof of his ancestry, Ian realizes he's out of time. If the ghost is real, it could expose his secret and destroy his romance with Lara. Ian must convince her she and her twins are the future he truly wants.

Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Gelernter is a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers-as does he-those long-ago days . . . and a love that hasn't faced with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago-when it was ripped away from her. Since then, she's never looked back. So why can't she put to rest the one question that haunts her: Why is life so empty? Emily Anderson is a college freshman raised by her grandparents and about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story with a tragic ending that came accompanied her birth. As a result, she is compelled to look back and search out the mother she's never met. A young woman seeking answers to her heart's deep questions. A man and woman separated by lies and long years . . . yet who have never forgotten each other. With hallmark tenderness and power, Karen Kingsbury weaves a tapestry of lives, loss, love, and faith-and the miracle of resurrection.

Two couples torn apart-one by war between countries, one by war within. In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily's reunited birth parents, Lauren Gibbs and Shane Galanter. Lauren and Shane still struggle to move past their opposing beliefs about war, politics, and faith. Shane believes it's possible but Lauren doesn't. So she says a painful good-bye to her long-ago love and returns to her job as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Both hearts are shattered, and Lauren and Shane believe that this time their relationship has truly ended forever. Then tragedy sends shock waves through all their lives. Can Lauren and Shane set aside their opposing views so that love-God's love-might win, no matter how great the odds?

Successful businessman Holt Ridley doesn't believe in curses, but when he inherits a great-aunt's Long Island estate in early winter, tales of his family's past tragedies begin to seem real and threatening. Though he's determined to sell everything and return to his life in California as quickly as possible, the stunning Scottish antiques expert hired to help him soon disrupts his plans. But she is just the touch of holiday cheer he needs. She challenges his every assumption not only about the contents of the estate, and everything he was told about his family's past, but about learning to love for a lifetime.Antiques appraiser Caitlin Paterson discovers more than she expected among the contents she's been hired to catalog in the grand manor. As she evaluates the estate's furnishings, she uncovers several mysteries including a disturbing one that drives her to solve it. The most intriguing is the mansion's new owner, Holt Ridley. Holt is handsome, rich, and stubborn, just the sort of man she loves to spar with, but there's also a sadness in him that she longs to heal.Holt fears if their romance deepens, the centuries-old heartache that plagues his family will extend to him, and harm Caitlin, too. She is determined to help him find the happiness that has eluded him his entire life. He is torn between his desire for her and his need to protect her. Dare he let her close enough to risk everything? If they fail, his family history will be repeated, and neither of them will find a forever love.Waiting for a Forever Love was previously published as When You Find Love, a finalist in the Short Contemporary category of the 2021 BookSellers' Best Award. If you read the earlier book, I hope you will enjoy Caitlin Paterson's and Holt Ridley's new, expanded romance. It has been rebranded, new scenes and details have been added, and the emotional story deepened. And as you can see, it has a gorgeous new cover.Oh, and for his fans, Fergus, from Waiting for the Laird, the first book in this series, still makes an appearance at the end.If the story is new to you, I hope you have a wonderful time. Read on!

Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. EVEN NOW A young woman seeking answers to her heart's deepest questions. A man and woman driven apart by lies and years of separation…who have never forgotten each other. With hallmark tenderness and power, Karen Kingsbury weaves a tapestry of lives, losses, love, and faith-and the miracle of resurrection. EVER AFTER 2007 Christian Book of the Year Two couples torn apart – one by war between countries, and one by a war within. In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily's reunited birth parents. But Lauren and Shane still struggle to move past their opposing beliefs about war, politics, and faith. When tragedy strikes, can they set aside their opposing views so that love-God's love-might win, no matter how great the odds?