Books like Heartsong by Melinda Cross

Southern belle Mellie leaves her comfortable Southern life for the Everglades, where she clashes and connects with the fierce Benjamin Cage—a congressman fiancé with a different outlook. Together they confront family legacies and the question of destiny in a romance that forces each to think for themselves.

Brenda Turner has achieved huge success as the president of marketing for a large company in the Silicon Valley. She works hard every minute to maintain her position and doesn't have time for the neurological disease that is attacking her muscles and vision. She'll do anything for a miracle cure. Dr. Luke Marcusson struggles with his attraction for Brenda, even after confirming her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Reluctantly, he terminates the doctor / patient relationship, but continues to stay involved. Brenda has everything that money and work can give her. But while surrounded by the friendship of more neighborly Christians, she is challenged to seek that which really provides ultimate contentment.

An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

A romance novel about Skye Garvin, a hospital volunteer who meets a patient who is actually an adult, and Jordan Kiley, a man confined to a hospital bed who falls in love with a vibrant and charming volunteer.

At a Massachusetts artists’ retreat, photographer graduate Alexis Riker meets twin lighthouses, a Texas socialite, a teenager in crisis, and a Chicago sportswriter, discovering deeper faith and purpose for her art and life.

After a tornado brings Lexi Harmon and her ex‑husband, ex‑police officer Colt Ridgeway, together, they work to rebuild the town—hoping to rebuild their marriage one piece at a time.

Carrie Chambers has fallen in love. But the man of her dreams isn't the hometown sweetheart her parents had hoped for, a pleasant Christian man. Charming, fun, and endearing, Dexter Riley makes his living playing with the 1892 St. Louis Browns of the Beer and Whiskey baseball league. And he's not a Christian. Despite her parents' protests, Carrie tells herself God can do anything, even bring Dexter to Himself. Her love for this rugged athlete will last a lfetime, she claims, and if necessary, she's goint to love Dexter into God's family all by herself. For now Dexter's life is as free and perfect as his effortless swing at the plate. Yet the day may come...but will Carrie's love and witness be as determined then to show him the way!

Family Secrets When Lainie Hamilton checked into the Silver Pines Lodge, she wasn't interested in hiking through the Oregon woods or splashing over white-water rapids. She had come here to sort out family business, a secret that had unraveled just before her brother Danny was killed in a motorcycle accident. And though a sports resort was hardly her choice for a vacation, Lainie planned to stay until she fulfilled Danny's last wish. From the moment Lainie arrived, resort owner Matt Wilbourne knew she was not the run-of-the-mill guest. The beautiful redhead had a barrage of questions, a fear of the river, and a mysterious aura. Why was this delicate, lovely woman subjecting herself to the rigors of a sports resort in the wilderness? Lainie's true motive was a secret, which she would have to guard carefully from a blue-eyed, sweet-talking, river-rafting man like Matt Wilbourne. But each encounter with Matt left her heart racing, her emotions soaring. His penetrating eyes seemed to read her feelings and desires. Did he see how she longed to touch his silvery hair? How she wanted to be held in his strong arms? And worst of all, did he know that she had come here to spy on him?

His scapegrace brother had fallen in love again, but all Clinton Sterling had were the barest statistics on the woman in question. A state senator running for reelection, he couldn't afford any bad publicity. So it was up to him to make sure one Mary E. Haley didn't have trouble in mind. But Mary Elyse shook Clinton's cool logic. From the moment she opened the door, her sweetness tugged at his wary heart. Could he trust this husky-voiced angel? And could he deny his errant desire for the woman his brother had already claimed?

Carla Bennett defends her Victorian bed‑and‑breakfast and its peaceful hillslope world from the intrusion of Jim Donahue, a Chicago businessman intent on turning Eureka Springs into a sawmill hub.

After the death of her first husband, widowed Ronni Melrose vows never to be vulnerable again. When a new neighbor, Cole Bannister, enters her quiet Mississippi town, she must confront the fear of loving again.

Orphan sisters Amanda and Sarah Jane Shelby leave Missouri to honor their father’s dream, journeying west on a wagon trail that tests their resolve and faith as they search for home, prosperity, and love on the Oregon frontier.