Beth Livingston

In 1904, Sarah Whitman is a teacher at The Red Brick School in Lewiston, New York. Her sweet, younger sister Annie unintentionally attracts suitors, and Sarah takes it upon herself to interfere in Annie’s life with devastating consequences.

In 1957, kindergarten teacher Cathy Cook finds a turn-of-the-century photo and an engagement ring in her desk at The Red Brick School. Her quest is to find the rightful owner and return the ring. Helping her is Todd Barrett who looks just like one of the young men in the picture.

This is a dual-timeline, stand-alone, Christian historical novel that takes place in the real small town of Lewiston, New York.

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In 1940, Willow Anderson flees her abusive stepfather and takes refuge on Mackinac Island as a hostess at Grand Hotel. There she is blindsided by events beyond her control.

Rob Allen, a student at Wheaton College studying to be a pastor, spends the summer at his family’s cottage on Mackinac Island. Infatuated by the beautiful hostess at Grand Hotel, he knows she is not the wife a pastor needs.

In the present day, Kristy Allen has just completed a horrendous year teaching seventh-grade English. She summers at her family’s cottage on Mackinac Island where Aunt Kathy has unearthed some alarming details about Great-Grandpa Rob Allen from an ancestry website. Although forbidden to pursue it, Kristy simply must know what really happened.

This is a Christian, dual-timeline, stand-alone novel.

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Gracie Taylor longs to escape the struggling family plantation in Summerville, South Carolina. Her wish comes true when the earthquake of 1886 forces them to evacuate to Columbia, South Carolina. Her family is taken in by Austin Grant, a handsome widower still mourning his dead wife after five years.

Living in Charleston, Miriam Kingsley has been in love with Austin Grant, her brother’s best friend, since she was young. Unfortunately, Austin married her best friend, Emily. Now that Emily is dead and Austin is coming to Charleston to help rebuild after the earthquake, Miriam hopes he will finally notice her.

But Austin Grant has no intention of ever marrying again. Can anything…or anyone…change his mind?

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Sweeping through Dayton, Ohio, in March of 1913, a flood the strength of Niagara Falls, rose twenty feet and trapped thousands in businesses, houses, and treetops.

Annetta Schmidt and her father huddle on the roof of their shed when it swirls away on a collision course with the Main Street bridge.

Logan Wells, a jewelry salesman stranded in the Beckel House Hotel, loses his fortune but gains a treasure.

Esther and Oliver Garrison never dream that fleeing their home with their two toddlers and elderly mother would cause such anguish.

Sam Marshall, nicknamed Samson, uses his size and strength to rescue hundreds at his own peril.

Mellie Mitchell works alongside Dorothy Patterson, daughter of John Patterson, owner of the National Cash Register Company, to feed thousands of refugees while waiting for news of her own family.

Based on real-life, fictionalized experiences, this is a clean, Christian novel, the first in the Disasters! series.

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Englishman Nate Chivers is offered a great opportunity in 1896 to work on the Saxby's farm near Circleville, Ohio. But tragedy strikes shortly after he arrives, with long-term consequences not only for himself, but also for the ten Saxby children.

Best friends Josie Saxby and Carolyn Pritchard both have their eyes on Nate. Who will win him? It all depends on Nate. Or does it?

This is a stand-alone second book in the Tour of Homes series, imaginary stories taking place in real houses open to the public. The setting is Mount Oval near Circleville, Ohio.

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Marrying the most beautiful girl in German Village had turned Will Fischer's life into a nightmare. But the night the 1888 blizzard roared into Columbus, Ohio, everything changed. Only time would tell if it was for better or worse.

A student at Otterbein University, Jennie Kenton was visiting Grandma the night of the blizzard. Their unexpected guests presented a crisis no one could handle, least of all gentle Jennie.

This is a stand-alone first book in the Tour of Homes series. The setting is The Kelton House and German Village in Columbus, Ohio.

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When his missing sister returns home with seven-year-old daughter, Ruthie, John Sheridan, bank vice president in Rochester, New York, must keep the secret from his dearest friend, or reputations will be shattered.

Claire Larson has always dreamed of being a pastor's wife, but one week before graduation from Houghton Seminary in 1911, her plan unravels. Struggling for direction, she takes a summer job tutoring Ruthie at John Sheridan's Sunnyside Hill. Now she must keep the secret too.

This is a stand-alone third book in the Tour of Mansions series, imaginary stories taking place in real mansions open to the public. This setting is Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua, New York.

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Yet after a family tragedy in 1908, kindergarten teacher Julia Bradshaw takes a humble summer job as a laundress for wealthy bachelor David Easterly. She has always been obsessed with seeing inside his beautiful mansion in Rochester, New York. But will her obsession become her undoing?

David Easterly's life is orderly, just the way he likes it, until he meets a beautiful woman at his Christmas Eve party. Will her secrets become his undoing too?

The Easterly House is a stand-alone second book in The Tour of Mansions series, imaginary stories that take place in real mansions that are open to the public. This book takes place at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.

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After the death of both parents and the sale of the farm, eighteen-year-old Rebecca Galloway is hired as a parlor maid in the Eaton's Buffalo mansion in 1885. Her life becomes a nightmare with a secret so awful that she prays no one will find out. But it can't stay hidden, and the consequences are not what anyone expected.

The Chautauqua Belles is a stand-alone first book in The Tour of Mansions series, imaginary stories that take place in real mansions that are open to the public. This book features:

• the Fenton Mansion in Jamestown, New York (the model for the Eaton mansion)
• the Wilcox Mansion on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo
• the Hotel Athenaeum at the Chautauqua Institution

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• What does it mean to be a Christian?
• Why pray?
• Why go to church?
• How to tell others about Jesus
• How to have assurance of salvation
• Who is God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit?
• How to be separate from the world
• How to have the character of Christ

Because reading the Bible and praying every day are so important, this is designed as a Quiet Time workbook with daily devotions for twelve weeks. Each week starts with a Phil and Ashley story—a brother and sister who apply these truths.

This can be used by one child alone, by an adult working one-on-one with a child, as a Bible study for a group of children, or taught as a discipleship class.

It is designed for third-sixth-graders to use independently but can be used by younger children with adult help.

Prohibition whiskey is still in the cellar when Susanna's family moves into Beaver Lodge in 1939. Her plan to get rid of it as a Christmas surprise for her parents is spoiled by a blizzard, one-year-old twin sisters, and a tramp loose in the house.

This is the first book in the Beaver Lodge Legacy Series based on my mother and her four sisters growing up in the 1940's in a wonderful country home called Beaver Lodge with wrap-around porches both upstairs and down.

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They couldn't go home, not with the cops sitting on their steps waiting for them. They needed a place to hide-- a good place, for it might be for a long, long time.

Zach looked around the big, clean, carpeted room. It was much nicer than home. Why couldn’t they hide out here? Besides, no one would ever think of looking for them in a church!

Abandoned by their mother, the Fleming kids run out of food and steal from the corner grocery store. To avoid being caught by the owner, they hop on a Sunday school bus. Whisked off to church, they discover the perfect place to hide.

This book takes place at the Elgin Bible Church in Elgin, Illinois.
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