Best Selling Books by Patricia Iles

"A Gathering of Light" is an historical romance. Set during and after the American Civil War, the story takes us from a cabin in the Virginia timber to a new life in the North.Union soldier Lieutenant Hixson Morris, wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness, finds himself in the care of a beautiful Southern woman with a mysterious gift.

The orphaned child of a runaway slave demonstrates a mysterious gift of healing. Her adoptive family must hide her wondrous power from the plantation masters. When The Civil War brings a harvest of wounded to their door, the secret is out. Join her as she grows and builds a life of love and freedom. Romantic, clean, historical fiction with a paranormal twist.

Geneva Nash must face her frontier life with the challenge of her hostile mother-in-law, her many children and her mysterious gift. She and her husband Abram will endure a painful separation from their son, the dangers of the wilderness and a life-changing loss.

Dally Sanders grew up in a riverfront shack, trying to keep her mother alive. Deprived a childhood, her heart aching from sadness and death, Dally decides to take the chance of all chances. She joins a wagon train of other single women, heading west to Oregon Country.Will they find the love and the lives they''ve been dreaming of? The men who have arranged the trip and paid their passage write tender letters to these unknown prospective brides. The women will get their first insight into the waiting grooms by the letters they write. What does a man write to a stranger to try to win her? And how will the women choose a mate by the letter he writes?