Brenda S. Anderson

She’s a senator’s daughter.
He’s a convict’s son.
Both have a heart for the homeless, but their methods of serving are decidedly different.
Can they overcome their differences and learn what it really means to serve and to love?

When Lauren Bauman learns she's sharing a cross-country road trip with a man who once bullied her, her old insecurities surface. But Jet Wurm isn't the boy he had been and he's working on becoming a better man.

if she doesn’t find the courage to forgive, will that convince Jet he’s as worthless as he’d always been taught to believe? Or will they learn that real love keeps no record of wrongs?

All Tessa Chanson ever wanted was a stable place to call home. She thought she'd found that when she moved in with Jared--until his home became her prison. When his control escalates, the only answer is to escape--an escape that's hampered when she falls and fractures her ankle.

While building his graphic design company, Nate Brooks is focused on the future he's dreamed of: traveling around the country from the comfort of his renovated school bus. But when he picks up a wounded, mysterious hitchhiker, those well-laid plans take a backseat to protecting her.

Hobbled by her injury, Tessa fears she'll never find freedom. Or has she found it with the family who graciously opens their home to her? And will Nate's protection put his family--and his heart--at risk?

2012 ACFW Genesis Finalist! *** She holds the key to his heart, and his home. Can she risk falling for a man whose house she may have to take away?

He's a nature photographer returning to make amends. She's a camera-shy naturalist seeking privacy. Can Haven capture her heart when she won't let him capture her image? And will his poor choices cost Callie her dream job and him the love of his son?

Luke Harrison has spent his life trying to win his father's approval, and when he inherits his Gran's candy store, his father dangles a promotion with one condition: Luke must acquire the land on both sides of the store. Acquiring the land would win his father's favor, but it could also nip a blossoming romance in the bud.

An unbeatable value! This 3-in-1 Special Edition Box Set includes all three novels in the contemporary Christian romance Where the Heart Is series. Over 1,000 pages of compelling characters, authentic situations, faith, family, laughter, and tears. Includes Bonus Content--proposal stories--not found in original releases! Includes Risking Love, Capturing Beauty, and Planting Hope.

2012 ACFW Genesis Semi-Finalist *** A Distressing Diagnosis * A Retreating Husband * A Prodigal Brother * When the counselor is caught in the middle, when she needs to be strong for those around her, who is left to be strong for her?

They forgave him for the accident that killed their son, but he will never forgive himself.

Newlyweds Richard and Sheila Brooks have it all. Sheila is pregnant. Richard’s business is flourishing. Their formerly broken lives have been mended, and life couldn’t be better.

Or so they thought.

Just a few years ago, Richard had thrived in Manhattan’s fast-paced business world, yet that’s the very place he abandoned his faith. Now that his faith is restored, he never planned to return to that old life. But then the New York corporation that once rejected him calls, begging him to come back. Richard knows returning is unwise, but his gut is telling him to go.

Sheila yearns to have something from her childhood to pass on to her child, but when her parents abandoned her years ago, they took all remnants of her past with them. Then, out of the blue, her aging father calls, asking to be let back into her life. Her head screams “no”, but her traitorous heart is saying “yes.”

If Richard and Sheila answer these calls from their pasts, will they risk breaking what they’ve spent so much time mending?

Hungry ... Homeless ... Heartbroken ...

After a troubling encounter with a pregnant teen, Sheila Peterson-Brooks hurries from the crisis pregnancy center into the frigid Minnesota winter where she is mugged and left for dead. After a frantic search, Richard, her husband, finds her, and the police quickly nab the mugger ...

A hungry, homeless teen.
The brother of the pregnant girl Sheila had just counseled.

The girl pleads for her brother, and Sheila and Richard choose not to press charges. Instead, they open their home to the boy, a move that could cost them their possessions, and their hearts.

And, in the process, teach them the true meaning of home.

An unbeatable value! This 4-in-1 Special Edition Box Set includes all four novels in the bestselling, contemporary Christian women's fiction series, the Coming Home Series. Over 1,300 pages of compelling characters, authentic situations, faith, family, laughter, and tears.