After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

This gripping novel tells the tale of the Easter family of Ontarion, Iowa. Ansel Easter was a favored minister until he rescued a grotesque creature from a carnival sideshow. His sons, C and Sam, suffer in the shadow of their outcast father until his violent death. C and Sam leave the home their father built for a new beginning, and find fortune building a lucrative business called the Associates-but when a rash of deaths has the townspeople looking...

"Time often slows and frequently even stops in the small town of Cottage Park, Iowa. In fact, time is best measured not by the hands of a clock but by the innings in a baseball game. Praying and playing baseball are two of the town's primary activities. Actually, they are one in the same in a town where baseball is a religion. Still, time does eventually flow on. Much like the Des Moines River just outside Cottage Park, time also leads to Des Moines,...

"Autumn finds Kate Duncan settling in at her farmhouse, even though its dated interior has her dreaming of updates that'll have to wait. Because between her shifts at the post office, helping her family with harvest, and adopting a rescue dog, her hands are as full as her heart. But country life takes an unnerving turn when a neighbor's barn goes up in flames. Word spreads quickly that the fire was likely arson, and suspicious whispers begin to fly...

January finds Melinda struggling to keep the worst of winter from her door. Shoveling snow, thawing her farm's water lines, and watching over the pregnant sheep in her barn fill her shorter days and longer nights. When a series of events threatens to break her heart and shatter her hopes, can she see the season through? --

Early winter makes Prosper look like a quaint scene from a snow globe. Everything changes when a national magazine sets its sights on the town's newest business, creating controversy about the best way to put little Prosper on the map. And when federal officials threaten to close the post office, Prosper's future suddenly doesn't seem so bright. --

A no-nonsense housing inspector claims Melinda's sweet deal with Horace could come at a high cost, and her latest idea to improve life in her rural community meets with skepticism from some of the locals. When Uncle Frank makes a shocking discovery in the town's archives, the fallout threatens to dim Prosper Hardware's bright future. --

Melinda is already at a crossroads when the "for rent" sign beckons her down a gravel road. Facing forty and laid off from a Twin Cities ad agency, Melinda is struggling to find her way forward when a phone call brings her home to rural Iowa. And just like the vast garden she tends under the summer sun, Melinda begins to thrive. --

A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.