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Donna WintersAuthor Bio:
Donna adopted Michigan as her home state in 1971 when she moved from a small town outside of Rochester, New York. She began penning novels in 1982 while working full time for an electronics firm in Grand Rapids. |
Books by Author
 Butterfly Come Home: Caledonia Chronicles Part 2 (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 14)Deborah Dapprich’s flighty ways had earned her the nickname, “Butterfly,” in childhood. Now, as a young woman of eighteen in the year 1905, her impetuous wanderings brought unanticipated trouble. A marriage of convenience to her childhood friend seemed the only way out. Tommy Rockwell knew that… |
 Unlikely Duet: Caledonia Chronicles Part 1 (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 13)Caroline Chappell practiced long and hard for her recital on the piano and organ in Caledonia’s Methodist Episcopal Church. She even took up the trumpet and composed a duet to perform with Joshua Bolden, an ace trumpet player whom she’d long admired. Now, two days before the performance, it looks… |
 A Time to Leave (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 10)At age fourteen, Violet Harrigan encounters two tragedies—the death of her father, and the resulting need to move several miles from home. The situation is more than she can bear. But a true friend sticks closer than a brother. Guy Legard visits Violet faithfully. Months turn into years, and the seed… |
 A Time to Laugh (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 9)The greatest passion of Flora McAdams’ life has always been her love of animals. From girlhood she had made it her mission to care for orphaned wild creatures and hurting family pets in the pig iron town of Fayette. Now, at age eighteen, she has no lack of four-footed patients needing her skill, and… |
 A Time to Love (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 8)The new iron-smelting town of Fayette, Michigan held no promise for sixteen-year-old Lavinia McAdams. The moment she arrived, she took an instant disliking to its muddy streets, acrid smoke, and dirty furnace men. The sooner she could return to her hometown in Canada, the better. Then Huck Harrigan… |
 Elizabeth of Saginaw Bay (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 12)The taste of wedding cake is still sweet in Elizabeth Morgan’s mouth when she sets out from York State for the new State of Michigan. Her handsome bridegroom, Jacob, has bought land in the frontier town of Riverton in the Saginaw Valley, and Elizabeth dreams of building a home and raising her family… |
 Isabelle's Inning (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 15)Born and raised in the heart of Great Lakes Country, Isabelle Dorlon paid little attention to the baseball players patronizing her mother’s rooming house—until 1903 when Jack Weatherby moved in. Polite and reserved, he attracted her from the start. But as their friendship deepened, so did their… |
 Trail Ride by the Yadkin River (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 19)When Vanda Mae Foxe’s cherished mare takes sick and dies, she leaves a huge hole in the sixteen-year-old girl’s heart. Thankfully, her daddy’s expansive North Carolina horse farm has plenty of room for a new favorite, and her next-door-neighbor, Willy Jo Winthrop, offers to sell Vanda Mae the… |
 Queen City Candy Shoppe (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 7)Soon after Rosalie Foxe arrives in the Queen City of northern Michigan for the summer of 1900, she stands at the center of a candy shoppe controversy. Accused of frittering away a gold coin meant for her aunt and uncle’s candy shoppe mortgage payment, Rosalie learns they are about to lose their store… |
 Bridget of Cat's Head Point (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 6)When Bridget Richards leaves South Manitou Island to take up residence on Michigan’s mainland, she suffers no lack of ardent suitors. Only days after the loss of his wife, Nat Trevelyn, Bridget’s closest friend and the father of a two-year-old son, wants desperately to make her his bride. Kenton… |
 Aurora of North Manitou Island (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 5)With her new husband, Harrison, lying helpless after an accident on stormy Lake Michigan, Aurora finds marriage far from the glorious romantic adventure she had anticipated. And when Serilda Anders appears out of his past to tend the light and nurse him to health, Aurora is certain her marriage is doomed.… |
 For the Love of Roses (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 18)Reeling from the loss of her parents in a tragic auto accident, Carey McIlwain resigns her teaching job to take up the reigns of the family florist business, unaware of the challenges that await her. Gavin Jack, the darkly handsome rose supplier threatens to cut off deliveries due to lack of payment.… |
 Saving Mossy Point: In the Fifty-First State of Superior (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 17)When retired schoolteacher and widow Betty Hanson learns that the 51st State of Superior is about to close Mossy Point State Park, she expresses her concern to Ray Engstrom, the head of the General Land Office. But Mr. Engstrom reveals a discouraging fact: Mossy Point State Park has never paid its own… |
 Charlotte of South Manitou Island (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 4)Charlotte Richards’ carefree world turns upside down on her eleventh birthday, the day her beloved papa dies in a spring storm on Lake Michigan. Without the persistence of fifteen-year-old Seth Trevelyn, son of South Manitou Island’s lightkeeper, she might never have smiled again. He shows her that… |
 Sweethearts of Sleeping Bear Bay (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 3)Mary Ellen Jenkins is a woman of rare courage and experience. One of only four females licensed as navigators and steamboat masters on the Western Rivers, she is accustomed to finding her way through dense fog on the Mississippi. But when she travels north for the first time in her twenty-nine years,… |
 The Captain and the Widow (Great Lakes Romances ) (Volume 2)Lily Atwood Haynes is beautiful, intelligent, and alone at the helm of a shipping company at the tender age of twenty. Then Captain Hoyt Curtiss offers to help her navigate the choppy waters of widowhood. Together, can they keep a new shipping line—and romance—afloat? |
 Jenny of L'Anse Bay (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 11)Jenny of L’Anse Bay, Special Edition in the series of Great Lakes Romances® is set in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan in 1867. Eager to escape the fiery disaster that leaves her home in ashes, Jennifer Crawford sets out on an adventure to an Ojibway Mission on L’Anse Bay. In the wilderness,… |
 Mackinac (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 1)This premier title in the Great Lakes Romances series takes readers to Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the year 1895. There, the prestigious resort, Grand Hotel, offers an opulent setting for Victorian romance. Victoria Whitmore, a 20-year-old Grand Rapids, Michigan, native, travels to the island on a… |
 Bluebird of Brockport, A Novel of the Erie Canal (Great Lakes Romances) (Volume 16)Dreams of floating on the Erie Canal have flowed through Lucina Willcox's mind since childhood. Yet once her family has purchased their boat and begins their journey, they meet with one challenge after another. An encounter with a towpath rattlesnake threatens her brother's life. A thief attempts to… |