Connie Keenan: 15 books

Eighteen years have passed since music teacher June Sheppard's fiance died in the war. Yet on a snowy day in 1962, while conducting the school choir at a Christmas concert in the park, she sees Paul Everett again--just a face in the crowd. Not one to believe in ghosts, she's nonetheless haunted by...

“If I may but touch the hem of his garment…” She had been sick for many years, but she was also an outcast. She was afraid, but she was also determined. The woman who had spent all her money on doctors in the hopes of being healed of a debilitating infirmity came to Jesus that day with...

Welcome to Larkspur Valley, a rustic little town nestled in the Appalachians. The night of the Blizzard of ’61, Penny Stringfellow, a frightened, unwed teenager, anxiously awaits her grandfather at the bus station. Farmer Henry Gordon has agreed to open his home to her, and he is a gentleman of...

Cherry Martinez has one last dream left to chase: to live at the beach. Her other cherished dreams haven’t come true, since one heartbreaking night ended her wedding plans and the career she initially believed she wanted only burdens her with stress and leaves her feeling unfulfilled. So, much to...

Hayley Latham wasn’t expecting the new youth pastor the night she was working in the church as its caretaker…and she certainly hadn’t expected him to be a jeans-and-cowboy-boots kind of guy who could whisk her right off her feet. And on a thrilling motorcycle ride, no less! Pastor Zachary Phillips,...

From Monday through Friday, Valerie Welch works at the public library to make ends meet. But her true passion? That would be as the violin player for, of all things, a local Jersey shore rock band. She has just reunited with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Zed, who has not given up his girl-chasing...

Handsome Dan O'Neal has always been something of a mystery to everyone in his life, even his own family. No longer working for the covert organization known only as W.U.O., he’s leaving that part of his life behind and starting over in a small mountainside town. This is the first Christmas...

Take another trip to Larkspur Valley, that small town in rural Pennsylvania. Five years has passed since then, enough time for some new people to have moved in. That includes Violet Dunne, a woman with something to hide, who happens to have caught the attention of Dr. Charles Wilkinson…Lauren, who’s...

Linda Cuthbertson doesn't pay much attention when she hears the news that her church has just hired a new music director. That is, until she comes face to face--again--with Drew Lingerfelt. Years, miles and life itself have come between Linda and the man she has always thought of as her first...

People in town always believed the place was haunted.Goodson’s Furniture Store had been abandoned for years. It had stood there, dark and decaying, beside an old cemetery, for decades. The former owners left in a hurry, though no one’s ever been quite sure as to why. Callie Drennan, a local...

While still in high school, Gina Bertoletti finds her free time taken up with working in her family’s bakery. Life suddenly takes an exciting turn the first time she lays eyes on handsome and charming Tony La Rosa. Gina is convinced that Tony, a local young man with dreams of leaving that seaside...

Having lost her dream job as a New York book editor, and subsequently her apartment, Heather Blackburn is not having a stellar year.Deciding to start over, Heather moves to North Carolina, where she agrees to house-sit for her parents' pastor. While surveying the area, she discovers something...

What’s a girl to do when she’s out shopping for a new dress, and only the one that’s outrageously priced is the one calling her name? Or when the only pair of shoes that will be a perfect match for that dress costs another huge chunk of change? Kara Childers, library clerk by day and belly dancer...

Up until the summer of 1972, Crystal Waves had been just another Jersey shore town. A place to spend a day or a weeklong vacation, a place to raise a family. A town with its own beach, a boardwalk, an amusement pier, and the music of the ocean. But then things begin to happen—events that...