Merrillee Whren: 13 books

STARTING OVER After serving six years in prison for the false charge of manslaughter in the death of his wife, Kurt Jansen must overcome a world of bitterness if he wants to start a new life. But his first priority is securing a restoration job to pay a private investigator to find the real killer...

When research scientist Max Reynolds is diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, his oncology nurse is meddlesome Heather Watson, who destroyed his hope of marrying the woman he loved. Heather Watson finds a challenge in guiding her friend’s neglectful ex-boyfriend through his fight against the disease. To...

Young widow Tara Madsen has spent the last couple of years dealing with her daughter Hailey’s battle with cancer. Now a new job means the opportunity to give Hailey the best Christmas ever, but the arrival of Caleb Fitzpatrick, her employers’ son, puts that goal in jeopardy. Caleb returns...

For single mom Melanie Drake, nothing is more important than her two livewire sons. As a young widow, she feels the burden of raising them alone, but she knows she has to move on with her life. When she meets Nathan Keller, son of the local bank president, to talk about her finances, she can’t...

Elise Keller believes she finally has her life and faith in order until her former boyfriend Seth Finley takes a job in her hometown. She wants nothing to do with this bad boy single father, but Seth has other ideas. Since their breakup, Seth has become a Christian, and he wishes for a renewed...

Ten years after Rachel Charbonneau left the South Dakota farm where she grew up to pursue her dreams of an acting career, she has come back for her mother’s funeral. Rachel plans to sell the farm and return to California. Despite her bad feelings about the place, the good things, including Matt...

Puppy Love and Mistletoe is a sweet Christmas novella. When Hallburg city employee Amelia Dunford returns a missing dog to his owner, handsome consultant Scott Graham, she is drawn to him and his love for the little girl for whom he is a guardian. But Amelia’s bad childhood experience makes...

This contemporary Christian romance is the first book in the Dalton Brothers series. When Wade Dalton moves to a small Florida beach community for peace and quiet and a new job, he encounters the four little kids next door who are anything but quiet. Because of difficult circumstances, the...

Melanie Reid wants only one thing—for her estranged husband to be a father to the son he has never acknowledged. JD may not love her, but she hopes he can love their little boy. When an injury ends J. D. Reid’s professional tennis career, he must deal with his sham of a marriage. He believes...

This contemporary Christian Romance is the fourth book in the Front Porch Promises series. Amanda Reynolds has always dreamed of being a songwriter and recording artist, so she drops out of music school and heads for Nashville. But when her car breaks down in a tiny eastern Tennessee town,...

Lukas Frye has moved to Kellersburg, Ohio, to renew his relationship with his grandfather, who lives there. For the past six years, Lukas has worked hard to put his reckless past behind him, and Kellersburg seems like the perfect place to do that—until he encounters Juliane Keller. She could derail...

This contemporary Christian romance is book five in the Front Porch Promises series. When Jimmy Cunningham has a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity with his uncle’s company, Jimmy hopes to prove to everyone in his small hometown that he can be a success despite his bad-boy past. But will...

When Peter Dalton gets a request from his boss to work with his missionary daughter on a project to help the less fortunate, Peter fears this may mean the end of his rise to the top at Hiatt Construction. But Peter is all about pleasing his boss and will do whatever it takes to please the man. Not...