Coralie Hughes Jensen: 5 books

Sophie Hawkins has a unique gift. Born illegitimately in a poor fishing village in the 1950s, Sophie is now set to be consecrated the first woman Anglican bishop in Newfoundland’s Eastern Diocese. Sophie’s mother, Lety, died when Sophie was too young to remember her. As a result, the little...

Wandering swamp hens unearth the body of Swedish babe, Johanna Anderson, partially buried in a grassy New Zealand field on the Coromandel Peninsula. Police bring in former constable, Gideon Cooper, teaming him up with Maori Detective John Winks. The department quickly picks up and jails Rongo Omana,...

Established by Anne Lee in the late 1700s, the United Society of Believers, better known as the Shakers, worshiped in several religious communities around New England. Through sexual abstinence, hard work, and charity, the followers believed they could create the kingdom of heaven on earth. They were...

Witnesses believe an explosion at a hermitage high in the Tuscan Apennines is a miracle. When a body is not found in the rubble, the Church concludes Brother Pietro, a hermit, must have been propelled into heaven. Though devout, the brother has a secret past. Father Sergio, assistant to the bishop,...

Jonah Devlin arrives at an isolated fishing village in Labrador to serve as pastor of a community church the Anglicans had abandoned years earlier. Gabrielle Pye, one of his congregation, is a young waitress struggling to raise her two brothers in the depressed economy of maritime Canada. When the...