Delia Parr Books In Order

A Hearth in Candlewood

With genteel grace and quiet fortitude, Emma Garrett presides over Hill House, a stately boardinghouse in the canal village of Candlewood, New York. She finds her purpose in caring for her guests, ministering to them with a generous dose of wisdom and humor. But when a ‘runaway grandma’ lands on her doorstep, Emma’s need to fix every wrong places her in the midst of a family feud. Emma’s concerns heighten when her attorney, Zachary Breckenwith, delivers life changing news, leaving Emma reeling from the implications. With her future suddenly uncertain, Emma longs to restore the peace of Hill House for her guests and within her own heart. FIND A WELCOME RETREAT IN CANDLEWOOD AS YOU EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY, FRIENDSHIP, AND FAITH IN THE LIVES OF ITS QUAINT AND COLORFUL CHARACTERS.

Refining Emma

A gentle, humorous story of life in antebellum New York where Emma Garrett operates a boarding house at the intersection of many lives. Candlewood Trilogy book 2.

Where Love Dwells

Emma Garret is eagerly anticipating the arrival of spring, when her three children and grandchildren will travel back to Candlewood to celebrate her birthday at Hill House, the boardinghouse she oversees. Though anxious to introduce her sons to Zachary Breckenwith, the man who’s been courting her, her sons’ own problems and wounds deeply hidden since childhood soon overshadow her joy. As Zachary presses Emma for an answer to his marriage proposal, Emma faces a host of dilemmas. Struggling to help her children, to determine the fate of Hill House, and plan her future with Zachary, Emma must rely on her wits, her determination, and her faith to help her fully understand the meaning of family, friendship, and love.

Hearts Awakening

With no means to support herself, Ellie Kilmer agrees to work as a housekeeper for the young widower who lives on Dillon Island, hopeful she can obtain a proper reference. But Jackson Smith quickly realizes that Ellie’s presence may solve his own problems both the rearing of his young boys and the scandal that surrounds his first marriage. When a marriage of convenience is offered, Ellie is initially humiliated. Though she is past the age most women marry, she has more pride than to agree to his outlandish suggestion. Yet what options does she have? To marry would mean a home and stability. So despite the rumors circling Jackson and his first wife, Ellie accepts this unlikely proposal…

Love’s First Bloom

Ruth Livingstone’s life changes drastically the day her father puts a young child in her arms and sends her to a small village in New Jersey under an assumed name. There Ruth pretends to be a widow and quietly secludes herself until her father is acquitted of a crime. But with the emergence of the penny press, the imagination of the reading public is stirred, and her father’s trial stands center stage. Asher Tripp is the brash newspaperman who determines that this case is the event he can use to redeem himself as a journalist. Ruth finds solace tending a garden along the banks of the Toms River a place where she can find a measure of peace in the midst of the sorrow that continues to build. It is also here that Asher Tripp finds a temporary residence, all in an attempt to discover if the lovely creature known as Widow Malloy is truly Ruth Livingstone, the woman every newspaper has been looking for. Love begins to slowly bloom…
but is the affection they share strong enough to withstand the secrets that separate them?

Hidden Affections

Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Tyler wears the burden of legally being a divorcee, a difficult position for an upstanding young woman to find herself in. While attempting to start a new life for herself, an unexpected turn of events once again has Annabelle married–this time to Harrison Graymoor, the most eligible, yet elusive, bachelor in Philadelphia. Harrison assures her that he will secure an annulment immediately, unaware that the constable has sent word of the marriage to the press in Philadelphia. And here things continue to go awry. Harrison’s past, a philanthropic cousin with his eye on Annabelle, and the appearance of Annabelle’s ex-husband threaten the tentative relationship growing between Harrison and his ‘wife.’ For two individuals set against marriage, there are certainly a lot of second thoughts regarding the one forced upon them.

Abide With Me

The three Long sisters of Welleswood, New Jersey, felt they could handle any problem, any crisis together…

But suddenly, each was facing the most critical challenge of her life. Andrea, a single mom, was in a fight for survival, against cancer. Madge, who’d once lived a storybook life, needed to find forgiveness if she ever could for a husband who’d kept a shocking secret for years. Jenny, pregnant with her third child, longed to keep her husband’s dream alive, whatever the sacrifice.

To get through it all, they would have to lean on one another as never before, trusting that their love and hope and their faith, no matter how far it was tested would see them through.

Day By Day

Three grandmothers bound by one common threadBarbara lost her son, a single dad, to senseless violence. Judy’s daughter fell into a black hole of addiction. Ginger’s girl threw away motherhood for money, status and materialism. And the grandmothers had to pick up the pieces…
. Miraculously, they found one another, a mismatched trio with no common history, yet with so much to share. Together they found wisdom, strength and courage and rediscovered the true meaning of faith.

Carry the Light

Ellie Waters usually juggled career, family and church commitments with ease. But when her mother fell ill, coping suddenly seemed overwhelmingly difficult. For help she looked to the past and within her deepest self. Charlene Butler, wife, grandmother and businesswoman, was enjoying a bright, new chapter of her life. But her aunt Dorothy’s medical crisis suddenly made Charlene wonder how solid the foundation of her world really was. On their journeys of discovery, these two very different women met, shared the burden of being caretakers, and in doing so they became best friends. Together they laughed, prayed and found new strength and new depths to their faith.

The Fire in Autumn

For years John Logan had searched for the infant daughter his wife had taken from him. The trail leads to Autumn Welles, an artist who paints tinware for a living and who is posing as the mother of his child. John knows that Autumn’s world is built on the shifting sands of deceit and he plans to use all means necessary to reclaim his child.

The Ivory Duchess

As The Ivory Duchess, Kate is the darling of Europe, but as the talented, anonymous pianist Kate, she has an opportunity to flee her painful past, until Philip Massey, a hired bounty hunter discovers her identity.’

The Promise of Flowers

Rumored to be as mad as their mother, the Dunn sisters are the innocent pawns of their cruel father, a ruthless Philadelphia shipping magnate. Since their mother’s death, Violet has devoted herself to protecting her fragile sister, Rosemary, but time is running out. Rosemary is about to be put in an asylum and Violet forced to marry. Desperate, Violet devises a plan to escape, but as circumstances conspire against her, she is forced to turn to Sam Glennings, her father’s biggest rival, a man trying to forget a past of murder and madness that still haunts him. Forced to trust a man who cannot trust himself, who can give her his love, but not his future, Violet’s last and only hope must come from straight the heart, where each new day brings…
The Promise of Flowers

Perfect Secrets

Everyone has one. Everyone loves to hear one. Secrets can last for years, or can be exposed in one shocking moment. And sometimes, secrets can be the perfect thing to bring even the most unlikely lovers together…
From the scorching plains of Texas to the moss draped riverbanks of Savannah; from a small town in Upstate New York to the sun baked terrain of the Old West, illusions will be shattered, lives will be changed and nothing will ever be the same once they’re revealed…