For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing her husband's surplices, and clothing herself and her children in hand-me-downs. But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness.

Faced with isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, Anna

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When "the other woman" in her marriage turned out to be her husband's congregation, Maura Sullivan ran as fast as she could.

Explores the role of pastor's wife, including the impact pastors' wives have in the Body of Christ, a look at the ups and downs of the role, and advice on living with the pressure of a public position.

"With infidelity behind them, Tai's marriage to her pastor husband, King, is stronger than ever. Even when King's ex-lover, Tootie, comes back to town, Tai keeps her cool until she hears Tootie has a teenage son no one knew existed, a son who could be King's. Tai is determined to know who the boy's father is, and enlists the help of her best friend Vivian to find out the truth. But what they discover is more than either of them ever wanted to know."--Page...

Ascension Sunday balloons are not the only things disappearing in the English village of Aidan Kirkwood. When the villagers celebrate the first Ascension Sunday Processional in fifty years, someone goes missing. A well off widow who was amongst the crowd has vanished into thin air. And she's not the only one who's nowhere to be found. Berdie Elliott, the local vicar's wife, goes into sleuth mode as eccentric cat lovers, a secretive informant, Portuguese...

When her husband, Lance, accepted the pastorate of New Light Church in the small town of Southlake, Texas, Jacqueline Stevens thought the transition would be a cakewalk for a First Lady with her years of experience. After all, she'd seen and heard it all before. Little did she know that she was about to embark on a journey of trials, self-doubt, and pain the likes of which she'd never imagined. With a world full of church drama, conniving members,...

The story of the friendship between two women--one the less-than-perfect clergyman's wife, the other younger and unmarried.

Dudley is an angel who is sent to earth to help a young minister and his beautiful wife revive their marriage. But things take a twist when Dudley accidentally falls in love with the "Preacher's wife."

Maintaining a cordial relationship with the unfaithful Charlotte while planning a divorce when their son graduates from high school, the Reverend Curtis Black resists his wife's efforts to reconcile and considers a proposition by a woman who desperately wants to marry him.

Berdie Elliott leads the investigation into the human skeleton found in the upturned soil at St. Aidan of the Wood parish church.