Deborah Raney

RITA recipient Deborah Raney's stunning debut novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the acclaimed film of the same title. The touching finale in the Hanover Falls trilogy, After All is a tale of forgiveness and the joy in learning to love again. It's been 18 months since Susan Marlowe's firefighter husband, David, perished in the line of duty. Only now beginning to heal from the tragedy, Susan learns that David had a secret-one that will completely change...

Unearthing a lost memory may cause Bryn to lose everything she holds dear-- but could it also set her free? The night the homeless shelter burned to the ground, five heroic firefighters died at the scene. Now their survivors must find a way to begin again.

"Now that their kids are grown, Audrey and Grant Whitman have converted their home into a cozy bed-and-breakfast. But then their youngest daughter shows up during opening weekend with a loaded U-Haul--and no husband. Now they'll have to figure out how to help the young couple in addition to running a new inn"--

Her second husband healed the sorrow of a tragic loss. Her first has just returned from the dead. Which man has the right to claim Daria's heart? After two years of serving as a missionary in a remote area of South America, Daria Camfield has returned to the States to mourn her husband, reportedly killed while providing medical aid to a neighboring Colombian village. At first, Daria finds comfort only in the daughter born to her after Nate's tragic...

One morning changed everything about her life.But could it also set her free? Graphic designer Maggie Anderson has lived under her boyfriend's tyranny for nearly two years … until she's carjacked in New York. Will this terrifying experience be the end for Maggie-or the beginning of a freedom greater than she dares imagine? To gain that freedom, she'll have to remember to forget everything about her old life … Trevor Ashlock is existing, day...

Christy Award finalist Deborah Raney has garnered the RITA Award, the HOLT Medallion, and a Silver Angel for such soul-stirring fiction as Forever After. Once a proud firefighter like his father, Lucas Vermontez lost his dad and his best friend in the fire that disabled him. When friendship with his buddy's lovely widow develops into something more, Lucas-unable to pursue the calling he loves-fears he has little to offer the financially strapped Jenna....

Anna's life changes forever on one horrific night when she is assaulted and left for dead. Anna Marquette has everything to live for. Her daughters are in college and, with the support of Paul, her loving husband, she is pursuing her dream of a career in counseling. Then one night, while on a trip to Orlando, the unimaginable happens. She takes a shortcut to an evening out with Paul and is brutally assaulted. When Anna suspects the attack has left...

As she waited in the darkness of the auditorium to watch their youngest son take his diploma in hand, Ellen Brighton had taken her husband's hand and squeezed it. She realized again how right she had been to marry the man seated beside her. She could think of no one she would rather be marooned on a desert island with than this man who was her husband, her friend, her lover. Suddenly, the empty nest before her had felt wonderfully full. But that bright...

Long ago, Natalie's mother faced an agonizing choice between the two people she loved most, and the difficult resolution to her predicament affects Natalie throughout her young life, fueling a season of teenage rebellion that results in tragedy. As a young woman, Natalie attempts to put her troubles behind her, ultimately finding solace in the arms of a man with close ties to the tragedy. Yet neither time nor love can liberate her from the past. Determined...

They were on their way to being a real family ... until she came into their lives. Expecting their first baby, Judd and Evette McGlin are thrilled at the prospect of becoming parents. But their marriage faces the ultimate test when Judd learns he already has a child: a six-year-old biracial daughter, born amid secrets and lies. Now, Evette must decide if she can accept the child-and forgive Judd. She thought she was open-minded-until hidden prejudices...