Bøger af Claire Dawson

Miles away from her hometown in the small mining town of Timberfalls in the Montana Territory, Claire Huntsman finds herself trapped in someone else's empty cellar with nothing for company but a candle that will burn out in hours and a non-native prairie rattlesnake guarding the locked cellar doors. Will her husband Garret find her in time? Will anyone find her? Garret, realizing that Claire is missing, searches for his Mail Order Bride and dearest friend, uncertain as to where she is. Given all the mysterious happenings in Timberfalls - with strangers wanting to buy a ton of land, mysterious shipments in the night, non-native prairie rattlesnakes showing up everywhere, and suspicious miners that seem to be up to no good, Garret has a plethora of options to pick from. But when yet another visitor shows up in Timberfalls, and he discovers that people are marking out foundations for land in an area that people still own land, Garret begins to worry even more. What happened to Claire? Where is she? Is she connected to any of the peculiar things he's finding? And what is going on in Timberfalls?

Despite what her parents say, Claire Gibson can't help but wonder if she's not beautiful and destined to be a spinster. She has no suitors, and she even tried the Mail Order Bride advertisements once and received no response. But desperate to not live her life alone, Claire finds an advertisement for a "Garret Huntsman" from the Montana Territory. Garret responds, and before Claire knows it she's traveled hundreds of miles from Massachusetts to Timberfalls, a small town nestled in the mountains of Montana. And at last, her heart knows a joy she never felt before in Garret. Garret Huntsman can't believe his eyes when Claire arrives. She's kinder than he had hoped for, lovelier than anything he ever imagined, and the God-sent blessing he's longed for when he moved into his new home. Garret's family loves Claire, and Garret feels like life has become perfect. But their perfect life together begins to fall apart when a number of questions arise in Timberfalls: mysterious strangers arrive, seeking to buy up everyone's houses and land; Claire runs into two miners that act suspiciously; and then the town becomes infested with non-native prairie rattlesnakes seemingly out of the blue. Yet the worst is yet to come - a truth is revealed that threatens to shatter everything that Claire has come to love. BOOK ONE OF THE MAIL ORDER BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN SERIES

THE ENTIRE MAIL ORDER BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN SERIES! Anna Bradbury has always been part of a family that wasn't quite rich enough to attend the lavish parties that were hosted all across the city, but her family was far from lower class. Until one night, when she is awoken from her slumber to find that her father has been killed and that all of their savings have been stolen from them by highwaymen. Left without a single penny to their names, Anna, her mother and younger sister attempt to figure out something to do to save their name and their house. Eloise is still too young to work, and Anna's mother too old. She tries to find a job, but with no luck. Resigned to fall to the dreaded lower class, Anna loses all hope until... Charles Middleton has lived in a small town where the mail only reaches them two times a year at most for all of his life. Inheriting his family's farm was his one and only foreseeable future. He didn't count on receiving a girl desperate to save her family from poverty as a Christmas present this year from his well-to-do aunt. Anna is different from every girl he has ever known; wild and untamable and incredibly bright. The fight has only begun once Charles and Anna are married. The townsfolk are vicious and struggle against accepting her with everything they have. Will Anna be doomed to remain an outcast in this strange little town, or will a Christmas miracle change everyone's hearts?

Claire Huntsman responded to a Mail Order Bride advertisement and traveled all the way from Massachusetts to the mountains of the Montana Territory to marry bachelor Garret Huntsman. But what started off as a wonderful new life together in the small town of Timberfalls became a stressful puzzle of mysterious strangers, rude miners, and non-native prairie rattlesnakes that showed up all over the town suddenly. On top of it all, Garret is bit, and it's while he's waiting on his operation that Claire discovers a terrible secret - Garret has been having an affair. While Claire wrestles with what to do about her cheating husband, she's still drawn to help the townsfolk of Timberfalls and continues searching out the puzzles. Just when Claire feels alone in her fears, Deputy Simeon lends an ear to her concerns, and Claire wonders if she married the wrong man. No sooner does Garret recover from his rattlesnake bite and surgery, determined to profess his love to Claire, when he discovers that she's seeing the deputy. Hurt, Garret determines to let Claire go so that she can be happy. But their misunderstandings are nothing compared to the danger that Claire suddenly finds herself in. BOOK TWO OF THE MAIL ORDER BRIDE OF THE WEST SERIES

Claire Huntsman is in shock. Three months ago, Claire made the journey from Massachusetts to the Montana Territory because she responded to a Mail Order Bride advertisement. She came to marry Garret Huntsman, a lumberjack from Timberfalls, a man who quickly became her dearest friend and greatest love. But just days ago Garret went missing, pronounced dead based on shaky evidence. Not long after his disappearance, Claire discovered she was pregnant, and she struggled with the joy of a bearing a child, and the sorrow of the loss of her husband. Yet when Claire and the people of Timberfalls came together for Garret's funeral, who shows up during the service but Garret himself, alive! Now, in the final book of the Mail Order Bride of The Mountain series, Claire and Garret are reunited only to face more trouble. They and the people of Timberfalls must work together to discover the truth behind the mysteries of Timberfalls. And they must work quickly, before someone gets hurt or killed.

Not even three months into her new marriage, Claire Huntsman finds herself newly widowed. Her beloved husband and best friend, Garret, the very man that drew her from Massachusetts to the Montana Territory from a Mail Order Bride advertisement, has been pronounced missing and dead. Stricken with grief, Claire remains with Garret's family as she wrestles with uncertainty about her future in the forest-enclosed, mountain town of Timberfalls. She is plagued with fatigue and nausea, and becomes the victim of the worst accusation she could imagine - that she murdered Garret! But Garret's not dead. He awakens at the bottom of a cliff to realize that someone has attacked him, and that this same person is probably still at large in Timberfalls. Daunted by the climb ahead of him, Garret nonetheless pushes on ahead, knowing that Claire and the townsfolks of Timberfalls are in danger. Will Garret make it back to Timberfalls? And can he make it home before anyone else - especially Claire - is hurt?

Climate change is one of the most pressing moral issues of our time, and at the same time one of the most divisive. Australian authors, Claire Dawson and Mick Pope examine climate change from a Christian perspective, arguing that the science is well founded, and that Christianity is well placed to deal with the issue. After presenting the basic science and key Bible passages, Dawson and Pope reveal the economic, political and religious complicity in the present crisis. They look at stories of hope, where Christians are working out their faith in a changing climate, and finally call the reader to repentance that leads to action. This repentance means not only a change of heart and mind, but presents a clear call to deepening engagement and prayerful action in all areas of life.