Beauty for Ashes

Gloria had everything she had ever wanted - a handsome man who loved her and wealth and luxury she always dreamed about! All that changed when someone killed her fiancé on the eve of their wedding. After her entire world collapsed, Gloria found comfort in Murray, a young and humble farmer. Murray gave all his love to Gloria and she realized that money is not key to happiness in life.

Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill's messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God's ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill's novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.