Books like Secrets of the heart by Al Lacy

In 1850 California’s gold country, a young woman sold into prostitution learns redemption when a devout man offers unconditional love, challenging her bitterness and redefining her hope for a new life.

After her husband’s tragic death, Marty Claridge becomes the unexpected mother of Clark Davis’s daughter, Mission. As she bonds with the family, she faces a life‑changing choice: return home or stay on the frontier.

Elizabeth, a teacher turned pioneer, marries Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Wynn Delaney and faces isolation and hardship at their remote northern outpost, testing her love and faith.

A widow who becomes a mail‑order bride discovers her new husband hides a dangerous secret, yet she finds strength in faith and love.

To settle into Beaver Creek, Elizabeth Delaney, a schoolteacher, and her Royal Canadian Mountie husband, Wynn, must adapt to frontier life while building ties with local Indigenous communities and grappling with new challenges that arise after a quiet year of adjustment.

Elizabeth and her husband Wynn relocate to an isolated RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest, facing solitude, tension with local Indigenous women, and the looming mystery of their son Sammy’s disappearance.

Hope faces danger as a mail‑order bride east of the frontier, meeting outlaws, feuding families and a kidnapping—yet through these trials she discovers how God orchestrates every twist for his children's good.

Two aspiring freedom‑seekers in Charleston—Benjamin, a 19‑year‑old escaped from South Africa, and Dan Johnson—plan a cattle ranch in Texas while battling slavery and bigotry with the support of their mail‑order brides.

Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her fabulously wealthy in-laws have taken her daughter Megan from her, claiming she's not fit to be a mother. In a newspaper ad for a mail order bride, Kathleen sees a chance to seek revenge on the Stallworth family. Instead, her westward adventure transforms her world and restores her faith. She returns to Chicago to fight for Megan but soon discovers God has prepared a victory she could never have imagined.

Angel of Mercy Series: Book TwoFOR SOME SOLDIERS, THE BATTLE never ends. Dottie Harper fears for her children's safety. Her husband, Jerrod, is struggling with dementia brought on by shell shock during the Civil War. It's as though there are two Jerrods locked inside him: the tender and loving Christian man she married, and a harsh man given to unpredictable fits of violent rage. Dottie loves her husband with all her heart, and with God's help, she'd determined to remain steadfast. Dottie's sister, Breanna Baylor, is a certified medical nurse. She's headed west with a wagon train, planning to visit Dottie in California and meet her family for the first time. Along the way, Breanna meets up with wounded soldiers, contagious townspeople, and injured outlaws. Compassionate and highly skilled, she tends to their physical hurts and shares the gospel whenever she can. Litlle does she know that a life-or-death meeting awaits with her own brother-in-law.Come alongside these two remarkable sisters, and rejoice in how God takes care of those with faithful hearts.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Evan MacKay and Claire Sutherland's story in Lady of Light by Kathleen Morgan is a tale of heartbreak, courtship, and the challenges of married life in the picturesque Scottish countryside.

Jordan's Star follows a young woman’s westward journey to the Oregon frontier after the death of her first husband, where she must choose between two men and confront the harsh realities of frontier life.

In 1880s Kansas, two former mail‑order brides must set aside past resentments to help a grieving boy find healing on the prairie.