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Charlotte Vance is a young woman who knows what she wants. But when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers--a religious group that does not marry--she is left dumbfounded. And when her father brings home a new wife who is young enough to be Charlotte's sister, it is more than she can bear. With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, this pampered gentlewoman hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her...

Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a chain of events and an unlikely love challenge her loyalty to this chaste community.

Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can't stop imagining life and love in the outside world.

She longs for peace--for her land and her heart--but can it truly be found at Harmony Hill? Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she receives word from the Union Army that her husband is missing. When the war ends without further word, Carlyn finds herself penniless, in debt, and forced from her home. With nowhere else to go, she seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill. The Shakers profess...

When his father dies, Rob must shoulder the responsibility of running the farm and coping with school; a tale of enduring strength. Adolescence.

Kate Marburn thought her recovery from her former husband's betrayal was a new beginning. A quiet and controlled life as the rose gardener on the estate of Sarah Denbigh, a wealthy widow, seemed the perfect escape. But when Sarah dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving Kate the unexpected heir to Sarah's vast fortune in Shaker furniture, the police suspect Kate might have had something to do with Sarah's death. Looking for a refuge again, Kate...

Dumbfounded when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers, Kentucky gentlewoman Charlotte Vance aims to win back her man by also joining the Shaker community, but instead finds another unexpected love.

The story of the Shakers, a religious sect in New England whose members believed in Christ's second coming. It is presented in the form of stories which a father tells his son, the father having spent years photographing the surviving members.

Tracy Doyle and her sister Amy are preparing for their first Christmas without their grandmother. They decide to give family members salt and pepper shakers from Grandma's collection--but the shakers are nowhere to be found. Could the identity of an old flame from 1942 be a clue?