Best Selling Books by Kathryn Lynn Davis

The prognosis you give yourself is the only one that''s important. You can''t allow yourself to become the victim of a negative prognosis. At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist''s prognosis was devastating: "There is nothing you can do. Go home and go to bed...forever." Nancy left her doctor''s office in shock and despair. How could it be that within a year she would be confined to her bed, at best able to push the buttons on her television''s remote control? She had plans. She had a family. She had a life that she desperately wanted to live. Nancy made a choice. Rather than accepting this hopeless prognosis, she began to educate herself, to create an effective health regimen, and to expand her range of therapeutic options. She literally reinvented her prognosis and in doing so she created a healthy new life. Lean on Me couples Nancy''s deeply personal story with a step-by-step guide to empower anyone to take charge of his or her own health care in the face of any life-threatening disease: Step One Embrace Change Step Two Fear Less Step Three Never Take No for an Answer Step Four Find Your Dr. Right Step Five Build Your Health Team Step Six You Are What You Ingest Step Seven Let''s Get Physical Step Eight Explore Alternative Therapies Step Nine Tame the Health Care Monster Step Ten Give Back Life-altering diseases often come with a list of "can''ts," "won''ts," and "no''s." Nancy teaches readers how to move beyond these negative concepts and focus on what they personally can and will do to improve their health. Each of these steps offers readers the strategies and strength to carry on when they''re feeling overwhelmed, and the concrete tools for actively seeking and receiving the best treatment. Lean on Me is the health advocate that each of us needs to adopt in the face of a medical crisis. It is a book that shows how to navigate the health care waters, to find hope, to take positive action, and to celebrate progress -- all kinds, every day. It provides the knowledge and power to make good choices. It supplies the authoritative information that can enable you to save your life or the life of a loved one.

Rond 1530 wordt een jeugdige erfgename in Schotland de inzet van een strijd tussen twee rivaliserende clans.

Born of a white father and an Indian mother, Saylah knows the bounty of the earth and sea and the secret wisdom of her people. But when tragedy strikes her loved ones, Saylah is forced to stay with her English-born relatives in the Pacific Northwest. Saylah discovers love, but she must resolve the conflicts of her heritage--and follow her destiny.

French nobleman Antoine sets out to build an empire in the forbidding Dakota Badlands, his New York heiress wife by his side. It isn''t long before the violent forces of nature and man will test their ambition, their will, and even their love for each other.

When a little ladybug awakens from its long sleep and discovers that it is spring, it goes about waking all the other sleeping animals.

Lured to the Dakota Badlands by the same dream that seduced his father, a drive to succeed over the forces of nature in a feral land, Phillipe de Vallombrosa vows to stand defiant against ruthless enemies determined to destroy him. Along with his wife, Mianne, Phillipe is led into the treacherous territory of seduction, betrayal, and love.

"Kathryn Lynn Davis is a master storyteller. Too Deep for Tears is beautifully written, emotionally charged, and unforgettable. Immersed in her richly crafted 19th century world, you won''t want to leave-one of my all time favorite reads." --Lucinda Brant, New York Times bestselling author of Salt Bride. "Davis'' story is as richly textured as a fine old tapestry. The time is the latter half of the 19th century; the emotions and conflicts are ageless...." The Chicago Tribune "The lyrical power of Kathryn Lynn Davis'' writing, the courage and beauty of her characters and the soul-deep Celtic magic that imbues every page makes Too Deep For Tears a book you will never forget. Never have the Scottish highlands been captured more beautifully." --Ella March Chase, Author of The Queen''s Dwarf "A compelling story...You won''t want to miss this richly detailed saga." Midwest Review of Books Late 1800s: Three sisters. Three corners of the British Empire. Three lives intertwined... forever. As he travels the British Empire, diplomat Charles Kittridge leaves behind three daughters: Ailsa in the Scottish Highlands; Li-an in Peking, China; and Genevra in Delhi, India. Bound by threads they neither see nor understand, the three sisters are haunted by their absent father--each in her own way. Creative and intuitive, often lost and without hope, they come together through their dreams in times of fear and need. Those dreams grow vivid, changing as these extraordinary women learn the lessons the Empire has to teach. And the all-important lessons within their own hearts. No matter the courage and passion, betrayal and loss they experience, their dreams never leave them. In the end, they believe Charles Kittridge has the power to heal them. But the truth is far more complicated than any of them understand.

The bestselling author of "Too Deep for Tears" and "All We Hold Dear" continues her acclaimed Scottish saga. New to the legend is Edna Rose, Ailsa''s daughter, who is more at home among the woodland animals than she is among people.

During the spring of 1988, on a small Scottish island, 18-year-old Eva Crawford leaves her childhood home to unearth the truth about herself, her mother, and her family. In a spare Glasgow bedroom, Eva finds a worn yellowed journal and a faded scrap of ribbon. She is soon spellbound by the story of her ancestors. Each had to confront their own demons, old loyalties and new betrayals, as a devastating tragedy loomed.

A collection of seven novellas by seven bestselling authors of Scottish historical romance, spanning five hundred years.

Sequel to Sing to Me of Dreams

Can the transforming power of magic help two people on a perilous journey create a miracle--even when one of them doesn''t believe?Since she lost her brother and nearly her father, Esmé Rose fears the world beyond her family and her garden. But one year when winter clings overlong, a dream begins to haunt her, forcing her to take a journey and face a challenge more difficult than she could ever imagine.Magnus MacLeod is a skilled healer, always curious to know more. He, too, is called by a dream he doesn''t quite believe in, despite its physical effects on him. He and Esmé travel a treacherous road that takes them to a magical place. There they must put aside their feelings for one another--and their difference in beliefs--long enough to make a miracle.

The Pocket Watch by Ceci Giltenan Maggie Mitchell believes her broken heart will never mend, then she meets a mysterious elderly woman with an extraordinary pocket watch. Transported to the past, will the man Maggie meets there take away her pain, or put her heart in more danger than before? Lord Ruthven''s Bride by Tarah Scott Lady Annabelle is torn between two men. The man she is betrothed to and the man who saved her life. Jack: A Scottish Outlaw by Lily Baldwin Jack MacFie is a thief-with a code. Even though Lady Isabella Redesdale is a hated English noble, when her carriage is attacked by another band of villains, his conscience forces him to kidnap the lady to save her life. More alike than they first realize, Jack and Isabella both crave freedom from war and despair, but in a world where kings reign and birth dictates one''s station, freedom is not won, it is stolen. One Knight Standing by Kate Robbins Thrust together by desire and ancient secrets, William Gillies and Catherine St. Clair embark on a journey of discovery wrought with passion, intrigue, and adventure, revealing their true destiny. Winter Fire by Sue-Ellen Welfonder When Katla MacKenzie meets a dashing stranger in an enchanted place, she gladly gives her heart - and her passion - to the lover she only knows as the Lord of Winter. Gunnar MacLeod can''t resist the bonnie lass and seduces her-or is he the one seduced? A long-standing clan feud comes between them, but a heart that loves is powerful, and Gunnar will do whatever he must to claim Katla as his own. Highland Awakening by Kathryn Lynn Davis Esme Rose is content in Glen Affric, that is until a dream sends her on a perilous journey where she comes to know her own fears and strengths, and the transforming power of magic-even for a man who doesn''t believe. Highland Destiny by Victoria Zak Rory Cameron, an alluring Dragonkine Highlander, believes he has found his mate in Kenna Mackenzie. Kenna, running in fear from her betrothed, finds a secluded refuge in a glen far away from men-that is until a dragon swoops into her life. Feeling the burn of the seductive flames, will Kenna embrace the fire between them-or will she flee again?"

How can a seer paint ''Truth'' when she''s lived a life of lies? Will she allow a man who has twice deceived her to open her heart to the truth? In the Highlands of Glen Affric, years after The Forty-Five-the Jacobite rising led by Bonnie Prince Charlie-Celia Rose lives happily in Faeries'' Haven, where the lies that protect her from the past keep the magic and the faeries away. She finds her only magic when she paints, and "sees" things she cannot possibly know. When a stranger comes on a mysterious errand, he threatens those who want to keep her safe at home. Little by little, he shows her new colors, new worlds and, most compelling-new passions. But he also brings danger, for he, too, lives a lie and is not what he seems. Still, danger comes in many forms, and the truth he offers leaves Celia with a difficult choice: to believe in those who loved and raised her; or trust this man, and learn the dark secret that could both destroy her innocence and forge in her a woman''s heart.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with this lift-the-flap book from Nancy Davis! Nancy Davis recreates the excitement and wonder of the first Thanksgiving--how the pilgrims came to America and how the Native Americans taught them to plant and then joined them in a Thanksgiving feast. Parents can use the simple text and the bright, graphic illustrations of this lift-the-flap book to introduce a very young child to this holiday.

"The long awaited sequel to TOO DEEP FOR TEARS spills from the pages with all the dark beauty and high drama of an ancient legend that winds its way around your heart."--Romantic Times All We Hold Dear is Book 2 in the Roses of Glen Affric Trilogy. Full of suspense and haunting emotion, it follows Mairi, Ailsa and Alanna--three generations of Highland women--who must call on all their strength and the wisdom of the ancient Celtic gods, when strangers come to Glen Affric. The intruders bring greed, conflict and treachery, pitting brother against brother, father against son, husband against wife. Yet among them is a new love for Alanna. More mysteriously, and without intention, they reignite Ailsa''s old and precious memories... In the epic struggle of man against man, and man against nature, who will suffer and who will thrive? Re-edited edition: now set entirely in 19th Century Glen Affric! "I couldn''t put the book down... ALL WE HOLD DEAR is beautiful, passionate and wild like the rugged Scottish Highlands. Excellent reading adventure."--Rendevous