Kathi Macias: 32 books

Emma Jean Cooper, nicknamed "Emma Jean Two" by her father, was born in 1966, in the small town of Crooked River, Arkansas, where poverty and prejudice were rampant. Emma Jean grew up with plenty of both, to the extent that her father was active in the Ku Klux Klan and exposed his daughter...

When Marketing Assistant Bretta Richert helps tie up loose ends for the extravagant Louisiana Wedding Gala held that very night, she's stunned to come face to face with her ex-fiance.  Cory is back in town and worse, he's a huge part of the Gala. Bretta has held grudges and nursed hurts...

Nathaniel Johnson is 11 years old, the son and grandson of ardent abolitionists. His mother, though not a supporter of slavery, believes they must obey the law—even laws that allow people to be bought and sold as chattel, and for those who help them escape to pay a great penalty. Caught between...

 Murder. Could there be a more chilling word? Could it be any more horrible than to have a loved one killed, brutally and heartlessly, without obvious reason or motive? When Liz Peterson’s elderly mother is found viciously beaten to death in her home, Liz and her husband, Charles, along with...

Evie Sternberg isn't thrilled that it's almost Christmas. It's a time for family, and hers has been estranged for a long time. So instead of moping around during the season, she decides to work on assignment writing an article on Amish traditions in Michigan. It's the 11th day of Christmas and a snow...

Twelve days before Christmas, in windblown Amarillo, Texas, Megan Bosworth works with her mother to decorate the house for Christmas. Only a few months into her first teaching job, Megan has met and begun to date a handsome and popular teacher named Marty Givens. Marty has asked her to marry...

It's Christmas time, but Cecile is surrounded by heat, dust, strangers, and death. If she'd accepted Colin's proposal and stayed in Canada, she would be enjoying a "normal" Christmas. Instead, she's stranded in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, serving as the lone nurse at a mission clinic,...

Four days before Christmas and Erin Macintyre is facing last-minute preparations for her wedding . . . on Christmas Day. She'd had it all planned out. It would be small and intimate, with no fanfare. Even though it had been almost two years since her husband, Justin had been killed, Erin didn't want...

Art Historian and Los Angeles native Margot, her pastor husband Paul, and his mother, Ruth, are spending their first Christmas in Mitchell, the small town in California’s central valley they’ve been called to serve. Ruth suffers from Alzheimer’s and Margot cares for her. Eager to be accepted...

In 1903 San Francisco, young cellist Kat lives disguised as a boy. Protected by Sam, who saved her life one year ago, when her guardian tried to sell her to slave traders, she secretly continues to compose, as the music and Sam become her life. Longing for Christmas hope, she chooses to trust and...

Pastor Steve is thrilled with the ticket sales for their big fund-raiser - a spectacular Christmas pageant that raises enough money to keep the homeless shelter running all year. Then the phone rings. The news goes from bad to worse and it looks like the entire show will have to be cancelled. But...

Avalanches happen to other people, not us. Marital problems happen to other people, not us, especially nine days before Christmas. At least that’s what Jack and Avery Burke thought. Married for ten years, avalanche control expert Jack, and ski pro Avery, only wanted to celebrate their December anniversary...

With a moniker like Wednesday Miracle Blessing, you would think she’d want to name a baby something like Jane or Joe. But no; Wendy called the foundling “Merry Christmas Blessing.” She didn’t realize the world—and one very special paramedic—had been paying close attention.  

Kate Ames is a young widow and a single mother, mourning the death of her father, with whom she and her son, Jason, had lived before his death. Her attorney, Lyle Montgomery, reminds Kate of her late husband, Tony, which she imagines is at least part of the reason that she dates him, though she resists...