Margo Hansen

"This should never have happened to me." Shanghaied, tortured, and beaten down, Keane Wheatly turns to a fellow prisoner for help. Together Keane and Jake make their escape back to the Wheatly farm in Ulen, Minnesota, as far from an ocean as they can get. But adjusting to everyday life isn't easy with the memories they both carry. Each day they rely more and more on God's grace. As Keane reacquaints himself with the farm, one day he hears a voice singing a hymn-a voice, sweeter than anything he has ever heard before. Each day he searches to learn who the singer is. Newcomer Mina loves the small town of Ulen and the people she's met, especially her shy new friend Tuva Thomsen. Although Tuva has known Keane all her life, she has never had the courage to speak to him. Mina's curiosity about Keane and Jake leads her to believe that one of them is not who he really says he is. While Keane tries to find the identity of the unknown singer, Mina tries to discover the true identity of the man she has come to love. When trouble hits town, they all learn the magnitude of God's grace to each of them.

I now pronounce you husband and wife. Mattie Morrison never heard the words that bound her to her unknown rescuer. She awoke to learn that an irate preacher had done what he felt was his duty and married her off to some stranger. She does not learn the identity of her husband until she runs into him in Sand Creek where she is employed in the bank. Even though Mattie recognizes Abel Newly, he has no idea that Mattie is the bride he was tricked into marrying. He disregards the whole ceremony as a hoax performed by a lunatic and eagerly sets up his medical practice with his old friend in Sand Creek. Soon, if all goes well, he will marry Delphinia Digby from Boston and his life will be complete. And it can't be soon enough. The townspeople are a little unsure about having an unmarried doctor tend to their womenfolk. On more than one occasion Abel calls upon Mattie to lend a hand at the doctor's office. But what is it about her that seems so familiar? Margo Hansen's fifth book, Mattie's Unspoken Vow, completes her series about the Newly family and sets the stage once again for romance, mystery, and adventure in the north. As Mattie and Abel come face to face with town strife and an outlaw gang intent on robbing the bank and finally with each other, they learn that God's ways are not always their ways, but he ultimately knows best.

They want a Norwegian wife for their son Nels. Her aunt's letter is a command that Irena must obey. Travel across the ocean to America, where there's a husband and a home waiting for her. So Irena sets off filled with trepidation and uncertainty but also filled with hope-hope that she can leave behind her life of loneliness and servitude and finally have a place she can call her own. But she finally arrives in Minnesota to a grouchy mother-in-law and a husband who doesn't even want her. Rex Newly has watched his siblings get married one by one and knows his turn will come eventually, but he's in no hurry. He wants to take his time and be sure of God's leading for his life. So how is it that he suddenly finds himself engaged to be wed and building a house for his prospective bride? Irena's Bond of Matrimony is Margo Hansen's fourth book in her series about romance and adventure set in the north woods of Minnesota. As Irena continues her search for belonging, Rex considers where God is leading him. Both will learn that the paths they start out on may not turn where they expected, but that they ultimately arrive at the destination set by God.