Elizabeth Petty Bentley: 9 books

Maid of the Silver Mist is Katerina's jousting name. Her family has been riding at the rings for generations. Kat's hesitant, however, about moving from the security of "Lead-line" into Novice-class competition, but when Leslie invites Gayle to enter the joust, Kat feels pressured. Her spirited...

Zoë hasn’t seen Lara since high school, when Lara converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, following Zoë’s invitation to attend a social. Zoë feels responsible for Lara in some ways, and Lara thinks she owes Zoë a debt of gratitude. Neither responsibility nor gratitude,...

Temple has no intention of remarrying after the messy civil divorce that left her without custody of her two girls. Then she meets Q, who thinks no woman could ever look twice at him. Q looks more than twice at Temple, though. He makes her laugh and sometimes makes her forget her lost daughters. And...

Tamar never made any secret that her goal is to break her mother's heart, now that she has sufficiently ruined her mother's life. Joyce knows Tamar is damaged, and Hollis tells her she should cut Tamar loose and stop letting Tamar torment her. But Joyce has her own secrets. Will the baby Tamar's carrying bring mother and daughter together or only drive them farther apart?

When Ellis’s sister and widowed father both announce their engagements, Ellis decides it’s time he thought about marriage too. And when Cassandra--young, beautiful, smart, and as cynical as he is—pays attention to him, he’s tremendously flattered and becomes involved in the conversion process...

Alyssa and Nolan are about to be married when Nolan’s best friend, Zeke, arrives. He’s an enigmatic figure, rumored to be excommunicated and to have failed to complete his mission for the Church. Alyssa sensibly marries Nolan, who is good-looking, devout, sensitive, and loving, but conventional....

Vida’s eighth child is finally in kindergarten when she discovers another is on the way. “Conflicted” doesn’t begin to describe her feelings. And when she starts to descend into what her fix-it husband labels “denial,” her marriage grows increasingly fragile, and her frightened husband...

Libby is a born caretaker—although not by choice. Her parents bred her specifically to care for her severely retarded older sister when they would no longer be able to. But at only nineteen—sooner than she expected—Libby is already Mama to Baby. Libby loves her sister, yet naturally still yearns...

Rae and Fitch, both doctors, decided before they got married that having children wasn't for them. But when Rae turns thirty-three, she finds that a career simply isn't enough. She wants a child. Fitch, however, is perfectly content and sees no reason to turn his whole life upside-down. And his wife's longing soon triggers an irrational jealousy that threatens to drive her away altogether.