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Bloom where you're planted. Easy to say. Hard to do. Advent is a season of hope. But Clara DeForest feels hopeless. Life as a semi-invalid has made her cautious and resistant to change. Her family's move to the Florida frontier town of Persimmon Hollow is an abrupt and unwelcome transition. Clara has one goal - to return to her familiar home city. Until a country boy, her loving family, and her strong faith help her grow a future she never imagined.

Spinning dreams of glamour, a seamstress uncovers a greater truth. In the second novel in the Persimmon Hollow Legacy series, we meet starry-eyed seamstress Josefa Gomez. Living and working with her aunt and uncle at a citrus grove in Persimmon Hollow, Josefa longs for the glamorous life of a sophisticated fashion designer. Her dreams alarm her Tía Lupita, who fears such ambitions are unrealistic for a 19th century woman. She decides Josefa should live with distant relatives and prepare for an arranged marriage. The headstrong Josefa rebels. Without telling her aunt, she accepts an apprenticeship with the town's dressmaker and continues to see two suitors. She's dazzled by the wealth and charm of one but feels more relaxed and open with the other. She's also unaware of the wealthier man's dangerous motives.Will she choose the man who could give her the outward trappings? Or the man who has fewer material goods but a bigger heart?

Running from her past, a devout teacher finds her future.At Home in Persimmon Hollow is the first book in a series chronicling love and life in a small fictional town in frontier Florida.In 1886, the pious Agnes is forced to leave - for her own safety - the Catholic convent-orphanage where she grew up. With nothing but her faith to sustain her, she begins her new life as a teacher in Persimmon Hollow. She discovers a wild and beautiful new landscape and a town filled with upright people. They include the difficult but handsome Seth, a man whose heart has been hardened to God after a terrible loss.As Agnes starts to put down roots and establishes a fragile bond with Seth, danger strikes. Destructive men from both their pasts arrive in town. Can Agnes finally escape her past and find a bright new future?

A temporary exile becomes a forever home. Long before #MeToo, a 19th century American woman who became pregnant after an assault paid a high price. Laws didn't support her. Society shunned her. She was often banished from home. That's what happens to Penelope Gold, the heroine of Growing A Family in Persimmon Hollow. She is exiled to the Florida frontier town of Persimmon Hollow. She's expected to hide for the duration of her pregnancy, leave her newborn for adoption and scurry home. But something remarkable happens after she arrives. She finds love, acceptance, faith and a newfound determination to pursue the future she wants.