Murray Pura: 57 books

In a few minutes everything in Sarah Nunley's life has changed and now she finds herself mistress of the plantation of Seven Oaks. The fact that Malcolm Beckett Ross has been ordered to remain at her side is both a blessing and a curse - a blessing because she can use his help, a curse because she...

Wells Fargo agents Remington Holt and his assistant Amos Drewery do not expect to be robbed by the infamous Pittman Gang when they are on a stagecoach run between Kansas City and St. Louis. Nor does Remington expect to fall for the most beautiful woman he's ever met on that same stagecoach. But one...

Sarah is a young bride, newly married, filled with happiness and joy, and she fills Seven Oaks with that same exuberant and bright spirit. But her marriage to dashing cavalry officer Malcolm Beckett Scott does not stop the Civil War. Soon the spring of 1863 has come, the rain showers of winter have...

A Church is going up. So is a homestead for the widows Noelle, Joyeux, and Marianne. And while nails are hammering walls together and saws are making boards just the right length, big things are happening in the hearts of Dianna Charming and Dana Fleming. But while love many be blooming again in the...

War has come to the Shenandoah Valley and to Seven Oaks but so has a romance that bit-by-bit begins to turn Sarah's mind towards thoughts of marriage. A surprise visit by her uncle, Stonewall Jackson, accompanied by cavalry commander Jeb Stuart and one of his handsome young officers, sets her head...

War still hovers over America like a dark winter cloud but it can't stop the love Malcolm and Sarah have for one another. After many changes of date and changes of plan their marriage is finally set for Saturday, February 14th, 1863 - Valentine's Day. Since the man giving her away is her uncle Stonewall...

The Apache attack on the Lazarus church is swift and lethal. But the combined force of clergymen, widows, lawmen, settlers, ranchers, and Ahab Hawthorne's hired men is enough to blunt the first assault. After that the Apache surround the church and use rifles and flaming arrows to try and kill them...

When War Reaches Clarissa’s Back Door, the Trustworthy Become Even Fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor...

Rose can't do anything about her church's decision to forbid her marriage to Ethan Daniels. But she can try and do something about another matter that upsets her - she can try and stop the hanging of Archibald Kendall, the man who did everything in his power to burn her at the stake. This makes no...

Rose's best friend Lyda Belier is on trial for witchcraft and murder. As law was practised in Colonial America, Lydia's defense attorney can do little but watch the prosecution bring up witness after witness claiming to have seen Lydia do everything from fly a broom, change into a black cat, and...

  The winter snows may be falling on Lancaster County but the cold does not have a chilling effect on Rose Lantz or Ethan Daniels - their love for one another, suddenly set free, blossoms from day to day. There are hay rides and sleigh rides and learning to snowshoe. There is a surprise birthday...

It is the most dangerous day of Rose Lantz's life, the day most full of threat and hazard and harm. Yet it swiftly becomes one of the most wonderful days of her life, a day that shines with heroism, love, and blessing. At its close she is full of gratitude for what God has done. But in the midst...

Andrew Chornavka took on the Trappist's cowl and disappeared from the 21st century in order to forget the century before. Yet even at the secluded monastery in America the past finds him. A delegation from the Vatican arrives with questions about his youngest sister, Zoya, who is, to Andrew's...

When the Chornavka family emigrate to Ukraine and return to their family's roots, they are expecting to experience a Communist utopia of peace and prosperity. But Stalin's ruthless purge of the Ukrainian people shatters their lives. Unable to return to Canada or America, the Chornavkas can...