In this passionate romance set against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago Exposition, a young socialite wrestles with family expectations and social boundaries.

Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but her heart lies elsewhere. Expected to marry an up-and-coming banker from a respected family, Lucy fears she will be forced to abandon her charity work--and the classes she is secretly taking at the newly opened University of Chicago. When she meets an unconventional young architect who is working on plans for the upcoming 1893 World's Fair, Lucy imagines a life lived on her own terms. Can she break away from her family's expectations? And will she ever be loved for who she truly is? Readers will love being swept away into a world of mansions, secrets, and romance as they follow Lucy through the streets of the Windy City during one of the most exciting times in the city's history. From opulent upper-class homes to the well-worn rooms of an orphanage, Olivia Newport breathes life and romance into the pages of history--and everyone is invited.

Get swept away in the lavish world of Chicago's high society in the gilded age. Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but the expectation that she will marry an up-and-coming banker makes her question where her heart lies. The garb of a well-dressed wife may not fit as well as the life she dreams of. When Lucy meets Will, an unconventional young architect working on plans for the upcoming 1893 World's Fair, she begins to believe a life on her own terms might be possible. But when secrets not Lucy's to tell get in the wrong hands, Lucy only wants to keep everyone safe. A life of glitz and grandeur, stark social concerns, and the courage to cross lines for her convictions challenge Lucy to find her own way-and the answer to the question of whether she will ever be loved for who she truly is Olivia Newport's novels twist through time to discover where faith and passions meet. She lives at the foot of Pikes Peak, where she enjoys life in the Colorado sun with her husband and nearby grown children.

In a world where everyone is putting on a show, there is a love that is genuine. Sarah Cummings has one dream in life-to break into Chicago's high society. Desperate to stop serving dinner to members of the wealthy Banning family and to start dining at society tables, Sarah spends her meager free time altering cast-off gowns to create the perfect wardrobe for her perfect life. When opportunity knocks at a breathless chance meeting, she presents herself as Serena Cuthbert, weaving a fictitious seamlessly with her fictious name. But as she gets closer to her goal-and to Simon Tewell, director of St. Andrew's Orphanage-Sarah finds that she must choose between the life she has and the life she aspires to. Can Sarah piece together the perfect life from scraps? Or will it all come unraveled in the face of true love? Olivia Newport's novels twist through time to discover where faith and passions meet. She lives at the foot of Pikes Peak, where she enjoys lives in the Colorado sun with her husband and nearby grown children.

Escape the helter-skelter of the modern culture and join software creator Annie Friesen, hiding at the home of an Amishman. With her high-tech career in jeopardy, Annie runs from fast-paced Colorado Springs—and straight into the hospitality of San Luis Valley’s Amish community. There she meets cabinetmaker Rufus Beiler, and the more time she spends with him, the more attracted she becomes. When Annie finds she shares a common ancestor with Rufus, she feels both cultures colliding within her. But is her love for Rufus strong enough for her to give up the only life she’s ever known?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.