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Susan Travis

Heartfelt love stories of faith and hope, and cozy mysteries best enjoyed with a warm cup of tea.

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Love Stories

Wholesome, faith-filled romance with small-town hearts and promises worth keeping.

Where the Lilies Wait

Cozy Mysteries

Gentle puzzles, charming settings, and a mystery to solve.

The Holly Hill Inn Mysteries

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Where the Lilies Wait

Some promises are worth the wait.

A 1942 wartime Christian romance set in Laurel Springs, a small Baptist church community in North Carolina.

Laurel Springs, North Carolina, 1942. Preacher's daughter Ruth Carter has made herself one promise: she will never marry a man who can't pray with her. Then Jack Hollis, the town mechanic who stopped speaking to God the day his younger brother drowned in the Haw River, gets his draft notice, and all she can offer him is letters. No ring. No pledge. Just the truth.

From the hedgerows of Normandy to a hidden hayloft where a French farm wife shelters a Jewish mother and daughter, Jack runs out of ways to keep God at arm's length. At home, Ruth learns that waiting is its own kind of courage: one day, one train, one answered prayer at a time.

A heartfelt story of faith, love, and the long road home.

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Cozy Mysteries

Coming soon: The Holly Hill Inn Mysteries

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Watercolor of a teacup, a basket of yarn with a crochet hook, an open notebook, and white lilies on a windowsill overlooking misty mountains

About the Author

Susan Travis is a Christian homemaker tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. By day she homeschools her children around the kitchen table, and by night, once the house is quiet, she curls up with a crochet hook, a cup of hot tea, and whatever story won't stop tugging at her heart.

She grew up on church potlucks, front-porch storytelling, and well-worn library books, and she writes the kind of stories she loves to read: heartfelt romances rooted in faith, and cozy mysteries where the coffee's always on and every clue comes with a little Southern hospitality.

When she isn't writing, you'll find her tending her garden, trying out a new afghan pattern, or watching the fog roll over the Blue Ridge with her family.