Susie Finkbeiner

Two sisters discover how much good there is in the world—even in the hardest of circumstances It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She...

Betty Sweet never expected to be a widow at 40. With so much life still in front of her, she tries to figure out what's next. When her estranged sister is committed to a sanitarium, Betty finds herself taking on the care of a 5-year-old nephew she never knew she had....

When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of paper with the address of their long-estranged father. If anything should happen to him in Vietnam, Mike says, Annie must let their father know....

Pearl Spence has finally settled into a routine in Bliss, Michigan, far from her home in Red River, Oklahoma. But Mama is still gone and doesn't seem to have a thought for the family she's left behind....

Pearl Spence has been through more in her young life than most folks could handle. But through it all, her family has been by her side. They may not be perfect, but they love her, and they all love each other, come what may. That's one thing Pearl no longer questions....

Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place....

In this novella collection, three renowned Christian historical fiction authors trace generations of wartime romances through a wedding dress with love sewn into its seams. A Heart in Disguise by Rachel Scott McDaniel Clara Westlake loves her job in the US “Camouflage Corps,” sewing suits...