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The Goddard family is in shock. One of their own is dead. How can they go on? Who will run the station? Frank and Maggie have been planning their retirement, but must they now put their plans on hold? Will Joshua rise to the challenge and get his girl, or will he allow grief to weigh him down? Change is everywhere at Goddard Downs. But change is when God can change hearts.

Married at last, life is bliss for Frank and Maggie - until storm clouds gather over Goddard Downs. Frank and Maggie are enjoying married life, but all is not well on the home front. The whole family’s livelihood comes under threat when the government declares a ban on live cattle exports. How will they survive? Will they lose everything they’ve worked so hard for?

City-dwelling Maggie Donovan is trying her best to let go of her resentment after her high-profile politician husband of 35 years left her for a much younger woman. Her focus now is her job as a reporter for Country Women’s Magazine, her two adult children, and her church. When Maggie is sent to the remote, mysterious Kimberley area to write about women living on isolated cattle stations, she jumps at the chance. Never did she expect to fall for the tall, handsome Frank Goddard of Goddard Downs. But how can a relationship work when they live so far apart?

Joshua Goddard has lived in the shadow of his father and brother all his life. He wants more from life than simply taking tourists on overnight cattle drives. Stella Martin has done her best to keep her family’s cattle station afloat, but the bank has had enough and her parents have given up. However, Indigo Downs is her home, and she’ll do what she can to get it back. Even if it means taking a job at Goddard Downs. She won’t lose her heart to Joshua Goddard, the good-looking cowboy she met at the rodeo. He’s no good for her. He doesn’t share her faith. It can’t work.

Emma MacGowan, raised by missionary parents, is a primary school teacher and new to town. She might be lonely, but she’s steering clear of the handsome cop with a reputation for dating and dumping. Until she witnesses a murder. Then she has no choice but to trust him. Her life depends on it. And he needs her alive to convict the smugglers. Thrust together in a situation neither foresaw, can they get past their prejudices and even learn to like each other. Perhaps even fall in love?

Outdoor instructor Max Carlton lives a peaceful and tranquil life in the mountains. He’s not hiding, he simply loves the freedom wilderness living brings. The downside is that sometimes he has to deal with people. Including Junia Fox, the attractive case worker who arrives with a group of troubled teens for a week-long retreat. City dwelling Junia prays the retreat will be just what the teens need. She knows what it’s like to be misjudged and shunned. Plus, the week-long escape from the city might do her good as well. It’s a pity the ruggedly handsome instructor is so offhand and rude.

Frank and Maggie have finally set off on their much-awaited and longed-for road trip. They relish the time together, exploring new places, meeting new people. But their trip is interrupted when Frank grows ill. How could this have happened? Will he survive? Meanwhile, more changes are underfoot at Goddard Downs. Sean has returned and has his eyes on Elizabeth, but does Elizabeth have her eyes on him? Can he truly give up his wild ways like Joshua did? Is David’s suggestion of building a bridge really a possibility? And can Janella leave Goddard Downs and embrace a new career?

When Holly Davidson, an up-and-coming city journalist, gets whiff of a cult in the mountains near Eastbrooke, she puts her life in jeopardy to investigate it. Donning old-fashioned gear to blend in, she soon discovers her hunch was right—it’s not the innocent group the members are portraying to the locals of the sleepy, picturesque town and something sinister is going on.

Born of wealth and privilege, Elizabeth Walton-Smythe's future should have been set in stone. The headstrong teacher and her minister beau should have been married. That was the plan, as far as Lizzy was concerned. But that wasn't to be, and one fateful encounter with a roguish Irishman quickly alters Lizzy's future and sends her heart and her life into a tailspin. Marriage shouldn't have been an option, but in her haste to rebel and escape, it soon became her reality. Now, she's faced with a different new kind of fateful decision. One which will test her faith and her resolve.

Since leaving home at the age of seventeen, Amelia Anderson has wandered from town to town, city to city, looking for meaning and purpose. Due to her upbringing and experience, the only jobs she lands are in sleazy bars where inappropriate remarks and unsolicited invitations from the male patrons are everyday occurrences.

Maggie and Frank are excited to welcome the entire family home for Christmas. It’s been too long since they were all together, and since Frank’s heart attack, they cherish each moment spent with their family. Plus, there could be two engagement announcements! Janella’s bringing Wade to Christmas, and everybody’s expecting Sean to finally pop the question to Elizabeth.

When Grace O’Connor arrives in the Scottish Highlands, she’s hiding a secret and trailing more baggage than she cares to admit. There, amongst the rugged Scottish Highlands and a community of caring, loving Christians, Grace meets the handsome Ryan MacGregor, an ex-military paratrooper with a history of his own. As the secrets of Grace’s past unravel and the sacrifices she’s made are thrown back at her, Grace faces the biggest decision of her life. As everything she has believed is turned upside down, Grace realizes that she needs to discover who the real Grace O’Connor is.

A charming Irishman. A jilted school teacher. A chance to escape their pasts and start again...A story of love, life, triumphs, and troubles, but most of all, God's goodness. Lizzy and Daniel have settled nicely into their new life in the Lake District. Daniel is growing in his Christian faith and Lizzy couldn’t be more delighted. Life is wonderful for the young couple until Daniel receives devastating news that may lead to his undoing and challenge his sobriety. With temptation testing him, Daniel will have to draw on God’s strength and his family’s support to resist it.

All his life, Eli Carlton has wanted to find his father’s killer and bring whoever is responsible to justice. Now he’s in the counter-terrorism squad, he’s getting closer to discovering the truth. But although he won’t admit it, he’s lonely. All three of his brothers are happily married, but how can he expect anyone to be with him when he’s on the tail of international terrorists? Young, beautiful, and naïve, Makayla Hausbaden is still coming to terms with being duped by her cousins whom she thought were genuine Christians. Nothing was further from the truth.

Bubbly, vibrant Willow Kelley has trusted God her entire life, so when she fell head-over-heels in love with Jason Allsopp soon after her brother married her best friend, Willow believed it was meant to be. But she got it wrong. Her husband of only one month left her for another woman. How can she ever come back from such humiliation and shame and learn to trust again?

Brianna O’Connor had been looking forward to spending Christmas in Spain with her friend, Susan. Instead, she found herself in her sister’s car heading for the Scottish Highlands to spend it with family she barely knew.