Tracey Bateman Books In Order

Leave It to Claire

A modern day single mother creates a to do list to fix the mess she’s made of her life. Will she realize the only way to truly grow is to let go of her own plans and listen to God?

Claire Knows Best

DESCRIPTION: In this humorous follow up to Leave It to Claire, this overwhelmed single mother enlists the help of a life coach to get a grip on the chaos in her life. Claire Everett is finally getting along with her kids, her ex husband, and even his pregnant wife. She’s attending church and happily dating Greg, a cute widower. So why is her life suddenly out of control? While juggling the attentions of Greg, another man, and her kids, Claire discovers that her writing career may be cooling down. When panic attacks threaten to keep her homebound for good, she enlists a life coach to help her sort it out. But will a stressed out life coach help or hinder Claire’s growth? And will Claire acknowledge that God directs her steps or will she continue to insist that Claire Knows Best?

I Love Claire

Lovable and quirky Claire Everett finally snagged a man, but how will she pay for the wedding when her writing career hits a snag of its own? She was busy enough as a novelist and mother of four, but after Claire Everett finds the wedding dress of her dreams complete with a nightmarish price tag, she kicks it into overdrive to find a way to afford the heavenly gown. She soon discovers that walking dogs and doing odd jobs are a piece of cake compared to fending off her client’s drop dead gorgeous son and dealing with her kids’ antics. When her magical honeymoon plans crumble into dust, she has to wonder what disaster lies in store for the Big Day.

Catch a Rising Star

When thirty something Tabby Brockman has the opportunity to reclaim her role as a killed off character on the nation’s 1 daytime soap opera, she figures this must be God’s reward. But back on the set, she’s faced with the same hateful head writer who killed off her character in the first place, kids who drive her crazy, a stage dad who rubs her completely wrong, and and an unwanted boyfriend who can?t seem to get the message. Faced with this dizzying rollercoaster of challenges, Tabby has to wonder: is she finally a star on the rise or just on the brink of another spectacular fall?

You Had Me at Good-Bye

Everything is on the line for aspiring editorial diva Dancy Ames when she’s fired by her publisher. Could this be the time to risk it all on her writing career and maybe even love?

Dancy Ames has an enemy: Jack Quinn. The man who swoops in, steals her dream job at Lane Publishing, and fires her, saying she just doesn’t have what it takes to be an editor. Now that she’s unemployed, Dancy must find a new career. Coffee barista, English teacher, literary agent. Hmm. Maybe she’ll write a novel a nasty invective, featuring a relentless job stealing, coffee drinking stalker who falls in love with a coffee barista. She’s got time on her hands, so when her friends dare her to send Jack a proposal, under an assumed name, she takes them up on it. If he likes it, she’ll have her ultimate revenge. But what will she do when it turns out that Jack is interested in her book and maybe more?

That’s (Not Exactly) Amore

When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone’s coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick’s nephew Joe hates all of her ideas and two, Laini has to admit he’s right she’s a disaster at design. Still, she can’t risk losing the job. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up.
Their relationship is moving along, so when new guy Officer Mark Hall implies that Joe’s family is tied to the mob, Laini doesn’t want to believe it. But things spin out of control when she meets the family, including ‘the uncles,’ who seem to confirm Mark’s suspicions. To make things worse, Nana Pantalone makes it clear Laini isn’t the kind of girl she has in mind for her grandson. Laini’s not sure if she should give Joe the benefit of the doubt or just set her sites on Mark and fuhgetaboutit.

Love Finds You in Deadwood, South Dakota

Jane Albright is newly widowed, with one child to care for and another on the way. When she learns that she is at risk of losing the family home and freighting business to greedy moneylender Franklin Lloyd, she has no choice but to brandish a bullwhip and haul freight all the way to Deadwood, South Dakota. Franklin agrees to give Jane six months to pay the note, and it ll take every ounce of grit she has to secure her children’s future. Franklin admires the strong and beautiful woman but how can he help her when he is her greatest enemy?

Reasonable Doubt

When tragedy separated teen sweethearts Keri Mahoney and Justin Kramer, they promised to reunite someday. Now, fifteen years later, their meeting was bittersweet. After his wife’s murder, Justin sought refuge with his twin sons at the childhood cabin in Missouri where he and Keri had first met. But Keri had become a police officer…
and Justin might soon be facing a murder charge. Could past wrongs be forgotten and love rekindled as he and Keri joined forces to find the true killer, and prove Justin’s innocence beyond a Reasonable Doubt?

Suspicion of Guilt

Theft, flood, fire someone was trying to destroy the home for troubled girls that Denni Mahoney had worked so hard to build. It was obvious her neighbors didn’t want them around, but could the girls’ pasts be the source of even greater menace?As the detective on the case, Reece Corrigan had to figure out what was going on at Mahoney House and keep the unnervingly attractive Denni safe. And though the attacks hadn’t been successful, Reece feared it was only a matter of time before the perpetrator’s focus shifted from the house…
to Denni herself.

Betrayal of Trust

It was a hotly contested senatorial race, and Matthew Strong’s unexplained decision to withdraw piqued Raven Mahoney’s interest. This could be just the story to guarantee her success as a TV journalist, particularly since their past relationship increased the likelihood that Matthew would level with her. It seemed things had changed dramatically in the Strong family the existence of Matthew’s adopted daughter surprised Raven and raised uneasy questions. Or was this investigation just an excuse to ignore her questions about her own parentage? Even as Raven checked out the single father’s story, someone was checking hers out, as well. And the closer their rekindled friendship grew, the closer Raven was coming to danger.

Everlasting Hope

Now widowed after a loveless marriage, young Hope Parker wants to save her son from self destruction. Oregon seems like a perfect place for their future, yet the wagon trains wont take single women along. For Andy Riley, life has held nothing but sorrow, disappointment, and pain. When he awakens in a strange bed after a merciless beating, he realizes his options are few pay what he owes with cash or his life. An arranged marriage between Hope and Andy seem to make sense Andys debts can be settled and Hope will find a new chance at life. Yet when the Lord begins changing hearts, will these two allow themselves to believe that His ever leasting hope can surpass their own dreams? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Beside Still Waters

When evil leaves her destroyed, Eva Riley will never be the same. Her friendship with Jonesy must end. Even if he did feel more than friendship for her, knowledge of her soiled present and tragic future would turn his love sour. Pushing him away is as much for his good as her own. Ben ‘Jonesy’ Jones is only hanging around Oregon long enough to help bring in his father’s crop; then it’s back to Texas to tend the ranchland he loves. That was the plan, until a spirited young lady became part of his dreams. Now, he’ll stop at nothing to prove his affections and make her his bride. Can romance and restoration be found beside the still waters of God’s relentless love? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

The Color of the Soul

Andy Carmichael, a reporter given the chance to cover the story that will make his career, finds more than he bargained for within the pages of Miss Penbrook’s diary. The Color of the Soul will keep readers captivated from beginning to end.

Freedom of the Soul

The captivating chronicle of a young woman’s struggle to save her homestead, a young man’s determination to expose a pretender, and the yellowed pages of a diary that links their lives together will keep readers spellbound from the first page to the last. Abandoned and abused, Shea Penbrook finds her ancestor Jason Penbrook’s diary and unearths a legacy. Jonas Riley is sent to Oregon to investigate Shea’s claim to his rightful inheritance the Penbrook estate. Can love bloom in the midst of murder, deceit, and mystery, or will past histories and present betrayals wreck any chance of romance?

Thirsty

Hello, I m Nina Parker and I m an alcoholic. For Nina, even in recovery, the truth of the declaration has demolished her hopes and condemned her to return to the town she ran away from nearly two decades earlier Abbey Hills, Missouri. But the place she once called home is no safe haven.
A ritualistic style murder.

Animals disappearing from the Ozark reserve where Nina works, and turning up slaughtered.

And someone or some thing watching Nina. Wanting her. Stalking her with a 250 year old desire that burns like a raging wildfire.

Nina’s ex husband Hunt shows up, hoping to protect Nina and Megan, the angry teenage daughter who followed her to Missouri. But another man has entered the picture, testing Nina as she attempts to walk the tightrope of recovery and the power of thirst.

Much more than Nina Parker s love hangs in the balance. The battle between love and obsession is destined to unfold to its startling, unforgettable end.

Tandem

As obsession and loss become dark partners, how far must the people of Abbey Hills go to survive? Six months ago, brutal murders shook the small Ozark town-murders that stopped after a house fire reportedly claimed the killer’s life. Lauryn McBride’s family auction house has taken responsibility for the estate sale of one of the victims- the enigmatic Markus Chisom. Submerging herself in Chisom’s beautiful but strange world, Lauryn welcomes the reprieve from watching Alzheimer’s steal her father from her, piece by piece. She soon realizes that centuries-old secrets tie Abbey Hills to the Chisom estate and a mysterious evil will do anything to make sure those secrets stay hidden. Even the man who grew up loving her may not be able to protect Lauryn from the danger. When Amede Dastillon receives an unexpected package from Abbey Hills, she hopes it might be the key in tracking down her beloved long-estranged sister. Visiting Abbey Hills seems the logical next step in her search, but Amede is unusually affected by the town. Two women brought together by questions that seem to have no answers. Can they overcome the loss and darkness threatening to devour them-or will their own demons condemn them to an emotional wasteland?

Defiant Heart

In Book One of the Westward Hearts series, orphans Fannie Caldwell and her two young siblings have spent the last three years as indentured servants under a cruel master. Desperately wanting a better life for her brother and sister, Fannie devises a plan to secretly join a wagon train heading west. Her plan immediately runs into trouble when the handsome yet bullheaded wagon master Blake Tanner refuses to allow an unmarried woman on the train. But Fannie’s determined she’ll escape and go west with or without help.

As life on the trail tests everyone’s endurance and faith, Fannie soon realizes the perils of being a single woman on the frontier. Witnessing Fannie fending off one scare after another, Blake slowly recognizes how much he cares for this alluring young woman. Will Blake sacrifice his own dreams and guide Fannie to safety? Or will Fannie’s stubborn independence keep her from finding true love?

Dangerous Heart

Growing up motherless with an outlaw father made Ginger Freeman hard and unforgiving and for the past seven years she’s been driven by a single goal: to make Grant Kelley pay for letting her brother die. Now that she’s tracked the hated doctor to a westward bound wagon train, her mission of vengeance is nearly completed. But the sense of family and community that suddenly surrounds her is unlike anything Ginger has ever experienced. And under the nurturing eye of Miss Sadie, the outlaw’s daughter begins to lose her rough edges. Here, in the company of loving, newfound friends, Ginger feels herself becoming part of something much bigger than revenge.

But catastrophe is in the wind when her pa and his gang arrive to infiltrate the wagon train. Will Ginger’s new relationship with God tear her away from her family forever…
and cost her everything she’s now begun to hold dear?

Distant Heart

Toni Rodden has escaped a life of prostitution and vows she’ll never let a man control her again. After months on the wagon train, she’s finally earned her place, albeit grudgingly from some, and has found a surrogate family in Fannie Caldwell and her two siblings. For the first time she can taste freedom and the possibilities of a new life. But as Fannie prepares to marry wagon master Blake Tanner, Toni realizes how alone she is and questions whether she’ll ever find acceptance, or true love.

Despite Toni’s conviction that no man will be able to see beyond her marred past, Sam Two Feathers, the half Indian wagon scout and acting preacher for the train, seems to know of a love that forgives sins and values much more than outward appearances. Will Sam have the confidence to declare his love? Will Toni be able to trust in a love that can forgive even the darkest past?

Torey’s Prayer

Torey Mitchell witnessed the cold blooded murder of a man she didnt know and her stepfather, who committed the crime, tries to convince her that what she saw makes her just as guilty as he. Terrified, she runs away and ends up in the loving home of the recently widowed Mrs. Crawford. The older womans love of the Lord prompts Torey to tell the truth about what troubles her so. Simon Crawford is on a mission to locate and bring to justice his fathers murderer. He finds it more than a little strange that this homeless girl would be spying on his mother only weeks after his father was stabbed. Even stranger is the way Torey has captured his heart. Can both Torey and Simon learn forgiveness through Gods love? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Second Chance

Alisa Worthington has been an orphan her entire life. She dreams of having a family but just when she thinks she’s found a home, it is taken from her. Alisa flees San Francisco and false accusations against her, ending up in the small town of Reliable, California. There, she’s at the mercy of the six Chance brothers. From the moment he first sees her, Titus Chance is drawn to Alisa’s enormous brown eyes, set in a lovely heart shaped face. But no matter how much friendship he offers, she always withdraws, haunted by secrets from her past. Will Alisa be convicted of a heinous crime she did not commit? Might her connection with Titus lead to a Second Chance for love?

A Love So Tender

All her life, Aimee longed to secure Greg’s affections. When she finally admits failure, Aimee flees to the sanctuary of her aunt and uncle’s orphanage and finds Georgie or rather, the motherless baby finds her. The 1870s lend little assistance to Rex Donnelly as he searches for his son. After six years he locates the boy in the company of the spirited Aimee Riley and knows he’s got his work cut out for him. She is determined to keep her ‘son’ and refuses to extend the slightest courtesy to the widower. Yet, there is an attraction that sparks between the adults. Could the Lord have plans to draw them together in A Love So Tender not just as a father and mother for little Georgie, but also as man and wife?

A Season For Grace (As: Tracey Bateman)

Grace is ready for a new life out west. When Grace Porter learns that her brother will be bringing a sixteen year old bride into their home, she determines that it’s time to start a new life. She joins a wagon train heading west, using money left to her by her parents to purchase a wagon, stock, and supplies. But while Grace is ready for a fresh start, shadows from her past continue to haunt her. Drawn as she is to the wagon master, Paul Spencer, and his orphaned niece and nephews, it is imperative for Grace to keep her distance. She should not be trusted with the wellbeing of children. An accident involving Paul s niece reaffirms Grace s need to avoid becoming part of Paul s life. Other forces threaten Paul and his family, and Grace finds herself enmeshed in their lives against her will. As she tries to allay a child s false sense of guilt, will she be willing to enter a season of grace for herself?

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11