Bøger udgivet af Janet Syas Nitsick

As a child, Erina Higgins was surrounded by prestige and wealth. But that all changed when her family's scandal erupted, and the family was forced to move to the desolate prairie of Tekamah, Nebraska, in 1879. Erina became a teacher and left Tekamah but returned after her mother passed away. There she reconnected with her childhood nemesis, Adam Miller. Pastor Adam Miller was enchanted by Erina's fiery spirit, and there was no doubt in his mind that one day she would marry him. "Honey, you know we're meant for each other. Quit fighting what the Lord has ordained," said Adam Miller to skeptical Erina Higgins, who was determined not to wed him because that would disclose the family secret.

She Came by Train to a desolate land in the spring of 1876. With mixed feelings, Opal Preston steps onto the platform to meet her employer, Alexander Boyer. She accepts his hand and climbs into his wagon to begin her role as the governess of his two children. As she executes her duties, she wonders how she'll cope without the Virginia finery she left behind. Soon two men vie for her affections-Alex, her employer, and a visiting preacher who comes from Virginia. She Came by Train but only her heart will determine if she'll return that way.

When the Whistle Blows, Hugh Warren paces outside the depot, waiting to see if his love, Winifred Preston, will step off the train to meet him. He only had himself to blame for his predicament. Could she give him another chance? He did not know. Heart in his throat, he looks this way and that hoping against hope she did not already marry the beau back in Virginia. When the Whistle Blows takes readers to the Midwest of 1877, where two unlikely individuals collide with each other physically and emotionally. However, only Winifred can determine whether duty and Hugh's betrayal will keep her in Virginia or allow her to return to the man who still haunts her heart.

Jim Ward was in a tizzy when the president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary College presented him The Bride List of ladies for him to court and suggested he start with Betty Chapman. A sweet woman, the president said. Oh, but that horse face of hers made Jim pine for his childhood nemesis, Annie Lee, who arrived in town a few weeks earlier. He remembered the day he dipped his classmate's pigtails in the inkwell to repay her for breaking his slate. But now, despite his best efforts, he was falling in love with his former classmate and desired to court her instead of Betty. However, he had to drop this wish when allegations of moral improprieties surfaced, which not only damaged his reputation but Annie Lee's as well. The Bride List, a humorous tale of a love-hate relationship that only the good Lord could ordain.

Courtships and Carriages, a sweet Christian romance, returns readers to the Midwest in 1893, where men who drove fancy carriages like debonair Nolan Braford could make ladies' hearts flutter, such as Gwen Ward's. Her heart raced every time she saw him, especially when these rides included secret rendezvous, pretty flowers and stolen kisses. ... Her decision could be an easy one if only her dear-childhood friend, Russ Knudson, a kindhearted, humble man, a man who works with his hands -- a farmer -- was not also vying for her hand. He may not be as refined as Nolan, but his feelings were just as sincere and Gwen's love for him ran deep. And, if only Nolan was not the son of the corrupt mayor and her father, the publisher of a local paper, was not investigating that corruption. The answer is in her court in Courtships and Carriages, which includes intrigue and suspense when a trunkful of mayoral electoral ballots comes up missing.