Janette Oke

From the beloved author of Love Comes Softly comes an inspiring work of historical fiction about a young Jewish woman, plucked from obscurity and thrust on a perilous journey, only to witness the world’s most life-changing story.

When it was first published in 1979, this novel introduced inspirational fiction to people hungry for well-told stories based on Christian values....

Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband....

This story of a frontier family begins where Love Comes Softly left off, telling the heart-warming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy....

Christine and her older brother, Henry, grew up in the Delaney family as loved and nurtured as if they had been born to Elizabeth and Wynn....

The fledgling church is being scattered by persecution....

Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters....

Most of Calder Springs' residents decide to relocate after the timber mill is closed. The Harrigan family decides to stay....

Years ago, Wynn and Elizabeth adopted Christine and Henry. In their new lives, can Christine and Henry still draw on the faith they have learned from their parents....

In Once Upon a Summer, Oke weaves the tender tale of 12-year-old, Joshua, who has been raised by his 18-year-old aunt and their grandparents....

After years of schooling, Beth Thatcher has graduated and is determined to become a teacher....

In the 18th century, the residents of Acadia live in a fragile truce. One day in a meadow, two women begin a friendship....

Beth Thatcher returns home from her first year as a schoolteacher in the mining town of Coal Valley and steps into a whole different world....

Three-time Christy Award winner Davis Bunn collaborates with Janette Oke to evoke the tumult of first-century Judea in the wake of Christ’s crucifixion....

A little girl grows into womanhood, unaware of the forces that swirl around her past and her future....

If Virginia could have chosen to accept or discard all the changes that came her way, she gladly would have let most of them pass right by herself and her family....

Ariana loves her life as a schoolteacher in a little frontier town. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home, her life changes in an instant....

"The full impact had yet to hit me. But I was excited. Really excited. I mean, what other fella my age had a farm his own, title clear and paid for...."

The best-selling Song of Acadia series follows the affairs of two sisters from the French expulsion from Nova Scotia to the turmoil of the American Revolution....

Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the Western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. Now, she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together....