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Melanie DobsonAuthor Bio:
Melanie loves exploring ghost towns, dusty back roads, old houses, and caves. She's enjoyed reading fiction her entire life and dreamed about writing it, but when she graduated from college, she pursued a career in public relations and journalism. |
Books by Author
 The Wings of Poppy PendletonIn this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all. 1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday,… |
 The Winter RoseIn this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées,… |
 The Curator's Daughter1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry an SS officer and adopt a young girl,… |
 The Stranger: A Legacy of Love Novel“What a touching, lovely romance! Dobson’s compelling, vivid storytelling took me to an unforgettable Amana community that I didn’t want to leave. Highly recommended!” Colleen Coble, author of The Lightkeeper’s Daughter Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch… |
 An Eternal Love: Tabitha's StoryAfter Tabitha loses her husband to the sea, God gives her the unexpected gift of a son and a new faith to follow the resurrected Messiah. Tabitha thrives amongst her community of believers in the seaside village of Joppa. There, she teaches widows, and a slave girl named Korinna, how to sew while she… |
 Memories of GlassReminiscent of Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, this stunning novel draws from true accounts to shine a light on a period of Holland’s darkest history and bravest heroes. 1942. As war rips through the heart of Holland, childhood friends Josie van Rees and Eliese Linden partner with a few… |
 Hidden Among the StarsFrom the award-winning author of Catching the Wind comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way. The year is 1938, and as Hitler’s troops sweep into Vienna, Austrian Max Dornbach promises to help his Jewish… |
 The Masquerade: A Legacy of Love NovelThe man who Elena Bissette loves is the one man she's not allowed to marry. Near the end of the glamorous Gilded Age, Elena's family is spending one last summer at their fashionable home on Mackinac Island. They've lost their family fortune, and Mrs. Bissette is determined to arrange a marriage between… |
 Enchanted IsleIn the spring of 1958, Jenny Winter embarks on a two-month adventure to one of the most enchanting places on earth, a quaint village in England’s magical Lake District. With a new camera and an eye for capturing the beauty others miss, she can’t wait to explore the heathery fells and mystical waters.… |
 Catching the WindWhat happened to Brigitte Berthold?That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. Daniel vowed… |
 Beneath a Golden VeilAs elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides under the Golden Hotel. It’s 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the city’s refined clientele and her future on a sweetheart’s… |
 A Plain and Sweet Christmas Romance Collection: Spend Christmas with 9 Historical Couples from Amish, Mennonite, Quaker, and Amana SettlementsEnjoy a simple Christmas, sweetened by love, in historical communities of plain faith people. Four romances develop among the Ohio River Valley Quakers of the mid-1800s. Two Mennonite couples face influences from outside their old traditions. Two Amish couples from the early 1900s are affected by world… |
 The Silent Order: A NovelRomantic Times, Top Pick!Two very different worlds collide in The Silent Order. After the murder of his partner, Detective Rollin Wells hides away in an Amish home to find out who is collaborating with Cleveland's notorious mob. While Rollin searches for answers to his partner's death, he befriends… |
 Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor: A NovelWhen Heather Toulson returns to her parents’ cottage in the English countryside, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about her family history and stumbles onto the truth about a sixty-year-old murder.Libby, a free spirit who can’t be tamed by her parents, finds solace with her neighbor Oliver, the… |
 The Oregon Trail Romance Collection: 9 Stories of Life on the Trail into the Western FrontierNine romantic adventures take readers along for a ride on the Oregon Trail where daily challenges force travelers to evaluate the things that are most precious to them—including love. Enjoy the trip through a fascinating part of history through the eyes of remarkably strong characters who stop at… |
 Westward Christmas Brides Collection: 9 Historical Romances Answer the Call of the American WestTake the journey into the American west alongside nine women who are chasing their dreams—Cynthia, for security; Beryl, for a new family; Adeline, for freedom; Molly, for marriage; Beth, for a new start; Belinda, for a place to heal; Suzette, for adventure; Juliet, for peace; and Caroline, for a future… |
 Chateau of Secrets: A NovelA courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family’s abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past.Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her… |
 The Courier of Caswell Hall (American Tapestries)As the British and Continental armies wage war in 1781, the daughter of a wealthy Virginia plantation owner feels conflict raging in her own heart. Lydia Caswell comes from a family of staunch Loyalists, but she wavers in her allegiance to the Crown. On the night the British sail up the James River… |
 Where the Trail EndsFor two thousand miles along the trail to Oregon Country, Samantha Waldron and her family must overcome tremendous challenges to reach the Willamette Valley before winter. Together they weather autumn storms, hunger and thirst, and the dangers of a wild and unfamiliar country. But when their canoe capsizes… |
 Love Finds You in Mackinac Island, MichiganAs the Gilded Age comes to a close, Elena Bissette’s once-wealthy family has nearly lost its fortune. The Bissettes still own a home on fashionable Mackinac Island, where they will spend one last summer in the hope of introducing Elena to a wealthy suitor. But Elena is repulsed by the idea of marrying… |
 Love Finds You in Nazareth, PennsylvaniaChristian and Susanna Boehler had never spoken when they were chosen by lot to marry in a Moravian community in Germany. But in 1754, they travel to Pennsylvania with a dozen other newly married couples to establish the settlement of Nazareth and share their faith with the surrounding Indian nations.… |
 Love Finds You in Amana, IowaAs the rest of the nation is embroiled in the Civil War, the Amana Colonies have remained at peace—until now. Amalie Wiese arrives in the newly built village of Amana in 1863 only to find that her fiancé, Friedrich, has left to fight with the Union army. Amalie fears for his safety even as she struggles… |
 The Silent OrderRural America - 1928. After the murder of his partner, Detective Rollin Wells hides away in an Amish home near Sugarcreek, Ohio, to find out who in the police force is collaborating with Cleveland’s notorious mob. While Rollin searches for answers to his partner’s death, he befriends an elusive… |
 Refuge on Crescent HillJobless, homeless, and broke, Camden Bristow decides to visit the grandmother she hasn’t seen in years. But when Camden arrives in Etherton, Ohio, she discovers that her grandmother has passed away, leaving her the 150-year-old mansion on Crescent Hill. The site of her happiest summers as a child,… |
 Love Finds You in Homestead, IowaTimes are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the communal Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society.… |
 Love Finds You in Liberty, IndianaIn a divided town during a dangerous era, who can be trusted? Liberty, Indiana is home to a stop on the Underground Railroad operated by Quaker abolitionists Anna Brent and her father. Harboring runaway slaves is a dangerous mission; anyone caught aiding them is subject to imprisonment. When Anna’s… |
 The Black Cloister"God will kill you!" Sol's curse carried in the wind. "And he'll kill the girl!" After her mother commits suicide, Elise Friedman travels to Germany to search for answers and discovers her mother's dark secret inside the walls of a medieval abbey. When the man who destroyed her mother… |
 Going for BrokeLeia Carlisle can't tell anyone her secret. After a debilitating ski injury, Leia loses her job as an airline pilot and turns to gambling for its empowering adrenaline rush. But the more she gambles, the more Leia thrives on the rush of euphoric wins until her obsession consumes her. If she doesn't… |
 Together for GoodAn unbelievable demand. An unbearable wound. When Abby’s family is torn apart, she can’t fathom God using her pain for good. Twenty years after she lost her baby, Abby Wagner is at the pinnacle of her publicity career until she’s assigned a new campaign with Heartsong Adoptions—the very organization… |