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  The Shape of Mercy

  by Susan Meissner

  “We understand what we want to understand.” Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with convention and her family’s expectations by choosing a state college over Stanford and earning her own income over accepting her ample monthly allowance. She takes a part-time job from 83-year-old librarian Abigail Boyles, who asks Lauren to transcribe the journal entries of her ancestor... (more)
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  Lady in Waiting

  by Susan Meissner

  Love is a choice you make every day.   Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband Brad pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home.  But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him and the course of events that follow Brad’s departure.   Jane finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a... (more)
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  A Sound Among the Trees

  by Susan Meissner

  A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss. As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past. When... (more)
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  Rachel Flynn Mysteries: Book 1

  Widows & Orphans

  by Susan Meissner

  Widows and Orphans is the debut novel in the new Rachael Flynn mystery series by critically acclaimed author, Susan Meissner. The perfect new series for readers who enjoy CBA authors Dee Henderson, Angela Hunt, and Brandilyn Collins. When her ultra-ministry-minded brother, Joshua, confesses to murder, lawyer Rachael Flynn begs him to let her represent him, certain that he is innocent. But Joshua... (more)
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  The Girl in the Glass

  by Susan Meissner

  Renaissance is a word with hope infused in every letter.   Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother’s house. But after her grandmother passes away and it falls to her less-than-reliable father to take her instead, Meg’s long-anticipated travel plans seem permanently on hold.   When... (more)
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  Blue Heart Blessed

  by Susan Meissner

  In this moving new novel by critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner, readers will once again delight in the masterful storytelling that resulted in the author’s A Window to the World (2005) being named among the top ten Christian novels of the year by Booklist Magazine. Left standing at the altar, Daisy Murien, a wounded but hopeful romantic, opens a secondhand wedding dress boutique, hoping to soothe her... (more)
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  Rachel Flynn Mysteries: Book 3

  Days and Hours

  by Susan Meissner

  Readers of suspense fiction will once again be enthralled with the latest entry in the compelling series featuring attorney Rachael Flynn and her continuing cast of intriguing characters. A newborn is found alive in a trash bin and a young, single mother insists her baby was abducted. While St. Paul police are skeptical, attorney Rachael Flynn’s strange dreams lead her to believe the mother is telling the ... (more)
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  Rachel Flynn Mysteries: Book 2

  Sticks & Stones

  by Susan Meissner

  Critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner’s Rachael Flynn mystery series started with the popular Widows and Orphans . In the second serving of intrigue, Sticks and Stones , lawyer Rachael Flynn receives an unsigned, heart-stopping letter: They’re going to find a body at the Prairie Bluff construction site. He deserved what he got, but it wasn’t supposed to happen. It was an accident. When the body... (more)
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  A Seahorse in the Thames

  by Susan Meissner

  Alexa Poole intended to spend her week off from work quietly recuperating from minor surgery. But when carpenter Stephen Moran falls into her life— or rather off of her roof—the unexpected happens. His sweet, gentle disposition proves more than she can resist and now she’s falling for him. Her older sister, Rebecca, has lived at the Falkman Residential Center since a car accident left her mentally... (more)
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  A Window to the World

  by Susan Meissner

  Here is the dramatic story of two young girls, Megan and Jen, who meet in first grade and quickly become inseparable friends. Inseparable, that is, until one of them is snatched away by kidnappers as the other young girl watches helplessly.   The remaining child grows up with the haunting memory of her friend’s abduction...and absence from her life.  Then, sixteen years later, the ... (more)
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  In All Deep Places

  by Susan Meissner

  Susan Meissner explores what God does in the deep places of the human spirit in this story about an acclaimed mystery writer Luke Foxbourne, who lives a happy life in a century–old manor house in Connecticut. But when his father, Jack, has a stroke, Luke returns to his hometown of Halcyon, Iowa, where he reluctantly takes the reins of his father’s newspaper for an undetermined amount of time. Memories ... (more)
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  The Remedy for Regret

  by Susan Meissner

  Tess Longren is 28, single, and at a crossroads in her life. She finally has a job she enjoys as well as a proposal of marriage from a man she loves, but Tess can’t seem to grasp a future filled with promise and hope. Her mother’s long ago death remains a constant, though subtle ache that Tess can’t seem to move past. When childhood friend, Blair Holbrook, asks Tess to accompany her to their childhood home to... (more)
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  Widows & Orphans - Rachael Flynn Mystery Series

  by Susan Meissner

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  The Shape of Mercy

  by Susan Meissner

  “We understand what we want to understand.” Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with convention and her family’s expectations by choosing a state college over Stanford and earning her own income over accepting her ample monthly allowance. She takes a part-time job from 83-year-old librarian Abigail Boyles, who asks Lauren to transcribe the journal entries of... (more)
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  Widows & Orphans (Rachael Flynn Mystery Series #1)

  by Susan Meissner

  When attorney Rachael Flynn's mother calls her with the news that her ministry-minded brother has been arrested, Rachael at first takes it in stride. After all, Josh has been arrested before for blocking entry to abortion clinics, resisting arrest, obstructing the legal process, interfering with police procedure....But this time the charge is murder, and Joshua has confessed to the crime. Rachael, certain that her... (more)