Lisa Samson Books In Order

Highlanders Books In Order

  1. The Highlander & His Lady (1994)
  2. The Legend of Robin Brodie (1995)
  3. The Temptation of Aaron Campbell (1996)

Abbey Books In Order

  1. Conquered Heart (1996)
  2. Love’s Ransom (1997)
  3. The Warrior’s Bride (1997)

Shades of Eternity Books In Order

  1. Indigo Waters (1999)
  2. Fields of Gold (2000)
  3. Crimson Skies (2000)

Hollywood Nobody Books In Order

  1. Hollywood Nobody (2007)
  2. Finding Hollywood Nobody (2008)
  3. Romancing Hollywood Nobody (2008)
  4. Goodbye, Hollywood Nobody (2008)

Enchanted Attic Books In Order

  1. Facing the Hunchback of Notre Dame (2012)
  2. Saving Moby Dick (2012)
  3. Dueling with the Three Musketeers (2013)

Novels

  1. The Moment I Saw You (1998)
  2. Songbird (2001)
  3. The Church Ladies (2001)
  4. Women’s Intuition (2002)
  5. The Living End (2003)
  6. Tiger Lillie (2004)
  7. Club Sandwich (2005)
  8. Apples of Gold (2006)
  9. Straight Up (2006)
  10. Embrace Me (2008)
  11. Bella (2008)
  12. The Passion of Mary-margaret (2009)
  13. Resurrection in May (2010)
  14. The Sky Beneath My Feet (2012)
  15. Runaway Saint (2014)
  16. A Thing of Beauty (2015)

Omnibus

  1. Plain Perfect / Quaker Summer (2009)

Non fiction

  1. Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live (2007)
  2. Enough (2009)
  3. Love Mercy (2010)

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Lisa Samson Books Overview

Conquered Heart

Lilla, a woman of strong faith, happens upon a wounded monk in the forest. Nursing him back to health, she discovers this man is not a monk at all, but Griffin Eadricson, the son of the once esteemed royal stonemason to the late King Edward.

Indigo Waters

She is heir to her father’s wine fortune, amassed over a generation of labor in the vineyards of Champagne, France. But while the vast holdings of the family estate belong to Sylvie de Courcey, her future does not. Her betrothal to the handsome Count Rene de Boyce has been planned from childhood an arrangement Sylvie knows nothing of…
until her heart has been given to another man. Even as Sylvie struggles with a wrenching choice between love and loyalty, a deeper secret tightens its invisible tendrils in a stranglehold on both families. Rooted in French underworld, its fruit quickly ripens into murder, extortion, and betrayal. One person stands between Sylvie and the evil that closes in on every side: the man Sylvie loves most, and cannot afford to love at all. Set in France, England, and Scotland in the mid 1800’s, Indigo Waters weaves romance, suspense, unforgettable characters, and surprising twists in a novel of unquenchable faith. Indigo Waters is the first book in the Shades of Eternity series by Lisa Samson. Filled with the splendor and romance of historical Europe, these well crafted novels trace one family’s journey of faith in the lives and loves of its members in the mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Look for the upcoming book two, Fields of Gold, at your favorite Christian retailer.

Fields of Gold

Fields of Gold takes us on a journey with Miranda Wallace, a young woman with a heart for God, a mind for truth, and a yearning to be adored by a man who will love her completely, inside and out.

Crimson Skies

David Youngblood, now a believer, marries the only woman who has ever truly loved him and tries to clear a friend of murder.

Hollywood Nobody

Fifteen year old Scotty Dawn travels to movie sets with her mom, Charley, a food designer. Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She’s even documenting the journey on her Hollywood Nobody blog. But as Scotty begins to ask tough questions, will her story have a happy ending?

Finding Hollywood Nobody

Scotty Fitzgerald and her father search for Scotty’s mother, who Scotty always thought was dead. Along the way they encounter new friendships, life and death situations, and God’s amazing love.

Romancing Hollywood Nobody

Scotty and Charley find romance in the Highlands when a couple of cute guys in kilts look their way. How will Seth and Jeremy react when they realize the ladies who were interested in them have captured the hearts of a young bagpiper and a Scottish actor?

Goodbye, Hollywood Nobody

Charley’s off to Scotland with her new beau, and Scotty and her dad travel to Maine in search of Scotty s mom. When they land on her mother s last known trail, will their questions finally be answered?

Songbird

In Lisa Samson’s moving novel, the wife of a popular televangelist discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy her marriage and her husband’s ministry.

The Church Ladies

Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion. The Church Ladies is a contemporary tale illustrating how women can have a major impact on the church. Through friendships that reach beneath surface level and trials more severe than simple they unite with common purpose: to pray, share, and comfort. Slowly, the community of believers learns that the church grows when it is rooted in love. Characters you’ll laugh and cry with, in situations every woman will instantly relate to, light up this page turner about a miracle that could happen anywhere.

Women’s Intuition

Lark Summerville’s life has few surprises and that s just how she likes it. All she wants is to live out her angst riddled life in her blue collar Baltimore neighborhood, punctuated by weekly trips to her local parish, where Lark is organist, and telephone conversations with desperate souls who dial her hotline at 1 777 IPRAY4U. Then one night, Lark s home is destroyed by a fire, forcing her out of her comfortable nest and back to the childhood home she has avoided for years. At Stoneleigh House, Lark is surrounded by three very different women: her grown daughter, Flannery; her barely tolerable socialite mother, Leslie; and Prisma Percy, housekeeper and family confidante, all of whom believe Lark was widowed years before. In this circle of women, Lark s carefully constructed existence begins to unravel, even as the promise of a new one unfolds. But when her contrite ex husband shows up, longing to assume his role as Flannery s father, twenty years after his desertion, Lark finds that she must face her own lies and her past before a new life can unfold.

The Living End

One Last Goodbye. One Last Adventure. Pearly Laurel is devastated by the death of her beloved husband of thirty five years. The two had always said they couldn t live without one another, and Pearly has no desire to even try. Then, in the midst of her grief, Pearly finds a tattered list in Joey’s pocket, entitled, While I Live, I Want to . His ultimate to do list sends her off on a mission to accomplish Joey s last unfulfilled goals along with a few of her own before arranging her own death. But the people she meets along the way have something else in mind. Can their unexpected gifts, secrets long hidden in Joey s journal, and memories from the rich life they shared convince Pearly that, despite her pain and grief, life is still worth living?

Tiger Lillie

Always the Wedding Coordinator, Never the Bride. Fifteen years after the mysterious disappearance of Ted, her childhood sweetheart, gutsy and daring Lillie Bauer bungee jumper, book addict, and delightfully offbeat coordinator of extreme high concept weddings is ready to find love again. Yet as she boldly but reluctantly braves a disastrous dating scene in her search for a husband, quirky Lillie is caught between two contrasting images of married life: the rich, lifelong partnership shared by her parents and the troubled marriage of her younger sister, Tacy. Faced with long buried feelings, fears for Tacy, and concerns about her father’s failing health, Lillie finds strength in an unlikely and peculiar community of loved ones, including Cristoff, her epileptic, florist business partner; Pleasance, a sassy African American clothing designer; and Lillie s strong Hungarian Grandma Erzs bet. But when Lillie stumbles across a danger that threatens those she loves most, she will need more than friends and family she will need a miracle.

Club Sandwich

Hey, Friend Do you know what it’s like give to 100 percent and still feel like it s not and you re not enough for anybody? To be caught between caring for an aging parent and raising young children? I lived in that place for four years. Ivy Schneider lives in this place, too, and she isn t at all happy about it. Her husband Rusty spends ten months a year on the road singing in a gospel quartet, and her mom gets sicker every day, requiring increasingly more care and time. Ivy s dad took off years ago but still comes around for free meals. Her brother and sister are more than happy to let responsibility rest on Ivy s shoulders. Maybe she could handle it all if only her darling three year old terror, Trixie, would just go on the potty. Who will take care of Ivy while she takes care of the world? No one, it seems. Then Ivy runs an ad in the paper to find folks like herself: women of the sandwich generation, squeezed between the demands of raising young children and caring for an aging parent. Soon she and the other women of Club Sandwich are building uncommonly deep friendships, witnessing the reality that in fact no woman can be everything to everybody, and discovering firsthand that they can do more than they imagined possible with the help of each another and with a strong dose of faith. If your life is about caring for others, I dedicate this book to you. Welcome to the club. You are most definitely not alone. Grace,Lisa

Apples of Gold

Once upon a time, many years ago, when true love walked hand in hand with kisses and promises, and decisions were made to last forever, two girls received a summons to appear before the governor. So begins the story of two sisters in a long ago land who are presented with a precious gift. The governor wants the young women to protect and care for this gift until the return of his son, the prince of the land. Upon the prince’s return, one sister will be chosen to serve the prince according to how the gift was cared for and both sisters will be surprised by what the prince wants to offer the one who best cherishes the gift. The young women have dreams of being happy and loved. But how they see the gift and themselves will determine how that gift is treasured and what will remain of their dreams. Apples of Gold is a powerful parable about the beauty of sexual purity and the prize that awaits those who are committed to the keeping of such a gift.

Straight Up

They are living lives they were never meant to live. Georgia Bishop, a could be jazz great, has thrown away her life, her marriage, and her talent for her drinking habit. Her cousin, Fairly Godfrey, is living the good life in New York but wonders if deeper meaning exists beyond the superficial world in which she finds herself. It takes a Congo refugee, a soul food chef, a persistent husband, and one desperate night on the brink of freedom for Georgia and Fairly to realize how far they have come from their God given purposes. When they face the most difficult choices of their lives, only the power of grace can bring them to true healing.

Embrace Me

Biting and gentle, hard edged and hopeful…
a beautiful fable of love and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption. When a ‘lizard woman,’ a self mutilating preacher, a tattoed monk, and a sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter, their lives are edging precariously close to disaster…
and improbably close to grace.

Bella

‘If you want God to laugh, tell him your plans.’For Jose the cook and Nina the beautiful waitress life has not turned out the way either had planned. Living with the weight of guilt and lost dreams, each struggles to survive and to make sense of what life now holds. But the events of one ordinary day in New York City turn into an unforgettable experience that changes both of their lives forever. Based on the 1 top rated movie of 2007 and one of the most honored films of the year winning the highly coveted People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, Best Picture and Best Actor at the 2008 MovieGuide Awards Bella is a story about redemption, family and finding love unexpectedly.

The Passion of Mary-margaret

Mary Margaret yearned to dedicate her life to the Lord. Jesus had another idea. When Mary Margaret Fischer met Jude Keller, the lighthouse keeper’s son, she was studying at a convent school on a small island off Chesapeake Bay. Destined for a life as a religious sister, she nevertheless felt a pull toward Jude gorgeous, rebellious, promiscuous Jude. But Jude, driven by demons no one really understood, disappeared into Baltimore’s seamy red light district. Mary Margaret moved on with her life, preparing to serve God with her sisters as a teacher and artist. Then Jude comes home but now he’s bitter, dissolute, and diseased. And Mary Margaret receives a divine call that shakes her to the core, a call to give up her dreams for the troubled man who befriended her so long ago. For Jesus’ sake, can she forsake the only life she ever wanted for a love that could literally cost her life?

Resurrection in May

A strange and wonderous friendship ignites the fire of love in May Seymour’s life. May Seymour graduated from college with the world at her feet and no idea what to do with it. A mission trip to Rwanda brought her a sense of purpose in loving others. So when the genocide began she chose to remain in the village, which was subsequently slaughtered. Only May survived. May journeyed to heal on the farm of Claudius Borne, a sweet, innocent old man who understood plants and animals far better than people. Years later, having not stepped a foot off Claudius’ farm, May learns an old college flame, now a death row inmate, is refusing to appeal his sentence. Can she convince him to grab hold of life once again? Their surprising friendship turns the tables, for the prisoner, Eli Campbell, has a deeper faith from which to draw than she. Eli slowly begins to pull May from her cloistered existence. With the help of Eli, their tiny town, and ultimately a renewal of faith, May comes to life once again.

Plain Perfect / Quaker Summer

Two Fiction Christian Novels in One Volume

Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live

In the suburban world of nice homes, neat lawns, and new cars, it can be easy to forget about social justice issues. Life keeps us busy, and the poor and disenfranchised of our world are invisible as we go from our garage to our workplace and back again. But suburbanites can be a force for social justice in the world. In this unique book, readers will take a journey with a young couple from the ‘burbs as they learn to notice and act on the issues of justice that abound no matter where you live. This engaging narrative helps readers kiss apathy and ignorance goodbye in favor of a life of concern and action in order to help our fellow human beings.

Enough

In an age of conspicuous consumption, where children worry more about their clothes than their grades, the world is being drained of its natural resources, and every universal temptation is dangled in front of us, is it possible to be content?

In Enough, Will and Lisa Samson address the idea of finding contentment in this age of excess. With a casual, accessible writing style, the Samsons discuss consumerism, contentment as a Christian discipline, and the notion of stewarding our resources. In four sections, they outline the ideas that drive a consumerist mindset; the effects those ideas have on ourselves, our communities, and the earth; conclusions about the situation; and practical solutions for negotiating everyday life once we understand that our abundant God is, in fact, Enough.

Love Mercy

In Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God, having lived a life of plenty in suburban America, Lisa Samson and her eighteen year old daughter, Ty, thought they were traveling to Africa to minister to the people and chronicle the AIDS crisis devastating the continent. Their trip, they assumed, would be missional, merciful, giving. Instead, they experienced a life changing, soul rattling journey. As mother and daughter are confronted with incidents of child prostitution, preventable illness, poverty, oppression, abuse, and death so prevalent it leaves no time to mourn…
their journey takes a decidedly different tack. Love Mercy confronts us directly with the AIDS crisis in Africa in particular Swaziland, which has the highest AIDS rate in the world and where the average life expectancy is thirty two years of age. Offering two unique perspectives, Lisa and Ty share the questions they encountered on their journey and tell the stories of those they met along the way from the children themselves, to adult AIDS victims, to the compassionate mercy givers who seek every day to alleviate their suffering. Smiles in a place of aching sadness. Mercy in a place of heart wrenching poverty. Two people transformed by God in ways, and places, they never expected, discovering that even in a land riddled with heartache…
Christ’s love and redemption are ablaze.

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