Lauraine Snelling crafts novels for adults that delve into real-world struggles, exploring themes of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer. Her inspirational contemporary women's fiction and historical series often examine these complex human experiences. Snelling is known for her hopeful and healing approach, with her works offering readers both solace and reflection. Through her storytelling, she aims to help readers navigate life's challenges with fragile yet profound faith.
After several years of widowhood and hardship, Ingeborg focuses on the good she's been given while she watches her widowed stepson fall in love once again. But not everything is comfortable for Ingeborg; one of her dearest friendships is changing--and she will have to decide if her settled life is worth more to her than a future she hardly dares t
After turning the tables on a crooked gambler, Larkspur Nielsen flees her home with her sisters on a wagon train bound for Oregon. Knowing four women will draw unwanted attention, she dons a disguise as a man. But maintaining the ruse is harder than she imagined, as is protecting her sisters from difficult circumstances and eligible young men.
In this novel filled with friendship, grief, and travel gone awry, three friends take their dream trip to Florence, Italy in memory of a beloved woman who has passed away.
Her first mistake was emigrating alone. Was this one even worse?Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegroom married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train.Her Bjorklund relatives eagerly await Augusta's arrival in North Dakota. When the train reaches the town of Blessing with the woman nowhere in sight, the worried family hopes she will be on the next train. But the following morning only her trunk shows up.Arriving at the end of the line, Augusta is met by a handsome young rancher, Kane Moyer, who is waiting for his Norwegian mail-order bride....She told him she was headed for Blessing. Why will he not take her there?
