Women's Fiction Titles

  Graceland Braun is a self-reliant, dedicated high school counselor. She spent her youth moving around as her mother, Maybelle, a Dolly Parton wannabe and Elvis groupie,  worked her way through several marriages while desperately searching for her “one true love.”  Their relationship was more like sisters than mother/daughter with Grace becoming the practical one who worried about paying for food and rent.  When her mother abandoned Grace at the age of fourteen in Pine Falls, Wisconsin with a grandmother she barely knew, Grace had to fight off feelings of loneliness and depression. The acceptance and love she received, particularly from the friendly Delaney family and their eldest son Jack, was her saving grace. Jack became her first and only love. She felt abandoned once again when he left her and Pine Falls after graduation. Along with the students she’s helping at school, she’s taken in a stray cat she refuses to name, in case the cat also abandons her. She is determined to marry for practical reasons and raise a “normal” family in Pine Falls. When both Jack and Maybelle unexpectedly return to Pine Falls, Grace’s peaceful existence is thrown into chaos. 

 Winner of the Silver Quill Award and Ist. Place in Fab Five long contemp/ Single title 

 After twenty-five years of being the perfect wife and mother, Martha LeBeau finds herself   unexpectedly widowed and shocked to discover her husband had been living a double life,  leaving her penniless and in debt.
Determined to regain her lost confidence and independence,   she sells her suburban Chicago home and moves to the Wisconsin countryside to forge a new life   away from cheating men and smothering children. There she meets the Wool Gatherers, a group   of fiber artists who teach her the art of spinning wool and raising sheep. A Border Collie puppy  worms her way into her heart, and she meets sheepshearer and single dad, Riley O’Connor,  whose son struggles with Asperger Syndrome.
Martha is at a crossroads. She wants her   independence, her passion, and Riley and Jake. Can she have it all without losing herself?

 Cara Olson is forced to put aside her struggling art career in  Chicago to care for her ailing grandmother in Wisconsin. While  journeying with her beloved Gram through the diagnosis of possible  Alzheimer’s disease, she loses and then rediscovers her passion for art  and experiences the resurrection of a past love. 

While caring for Gram and running her small  Scandinavian gift shop, the Wool Gatherers, a local group of fiber  artists, help her find new outlets for her creativity.

Along the way, her feelings for her first love,  Peter, grow, and she realizes she has once again fallen for a man only  dedicated to his career. 

When the opportunity arises for her to return  to Chicago with the promise of a new career, she seizes it. But even her  success can’t fill the void she experiences without Gram, her new  friends, and Peter.

 Divorced mom and cancer survivor Carol Schneider is desperate to save her rebellious son, Nate, from his recent bad choices and with the help of her Shoreview Wool Gatherer friends, signs up for a weaving class on a small island in the West of Ireland, where excursions for family members are included, hoping the change will give her son a more expansive view of life’s possibilities. There she meets the O’Connor family, including the charming widower, Quinn O’Connor and his beautiful, willful niece and fey grandmother.    The over-protective Uncle and determined mother are thrown together when the teens get involved in an island legend involving a displaced leprechaun, angry fairies and a family curse related to stolen treasure.