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More Books by Lee Carver

Richly drawn stories where faith, integrity, and authentic Christian perspectives shape every chapter.

Cover of "Rose by Another Name" by Lee Carver

AMERICAN HISTORICAL

Rose by Another Name

Themes: second chances, quiet courage, faithful love

Rose Coughlin, a Depression-era newspaper typesetter secretly writes as the character she would like to be and dares to hope for the life she may have missed. Dan Martin befriended Rose in high school, and her sick dog brings them together again. Can their mutual faith and love of animals lead to a fulfilling love?

This tender story weaves authentic Christian faith into everyday decisions, offering a gentle reflection on hope, resilience, and the quiet ways God redeems lost dreams.

Europe’s Art World

Counterfeit

Amateur. Master. Unwilling Recruit.

Themes: truth vs. deception, calling, sacrificial love

Dr. Richard Reed, wealthy professor and connoisseur of fine art, works with Interpol’s Experts Group to stop the flow of fraudulent paintings in Europe. He is sure an attractive tourist, Kendra Cooper is involved. As professional partnership grows into personal devotion, Richard and Kendra combat greed to gain what cannot be bought.

In this suspenseful story, questions of integrity, identity, and life calling run beneath every choice, inviting readers to consider what it means to live truthfully in a world of convincing counterfeits.

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Cover of "Retreat to Shelter Creek" by Lee Carver

Small-Town Texas

Retreat to Shelter Creek

A Roof and a Pig: Just the Treatment She Needs for a Broken Heart

Themes: healing, forgiveness, family, courageous faith

Fleeing her disastrous marriage, Ashley Brooker returns to Shelter Creek to help her grandmother through chemo. Austin Chism renews their teen friendship and demonstrates stamina through Texas heat and life’s hard spots. Discoveries of her husband’s duplicity develop into danger. A wife betrayed and dumped, she could lock herself away from further hurt or forgive and start over. Was there a man alive worth the investment?

This heartfelt novel explores the cost of trust and the beauty of grace, inviting readers to consider how God meets us in seasons of loss and leads us toward unexpected restoration.

World War II Historical Fiction

A Secret Life

Jewish and American blood course through a German aristocrat. A traitor to both armies, he must confess to his nation and his bride, or she will bear another man’s name.

The German Army of World War II rips KARL VON STEUBEN from his family and privileged life, forcing him to conceal his American sympathies and Jewish heritage. Stripped of every tie to his home country, he determines to escape. As he crawls to the Siegfried Line, only he knows the hiding place of gold ingots melted from the jewelry of prisoners. Wounded after assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier, Karl briefly deceives even himself. Discharged and shipped to America, he discovers God’s unmerited favor in a beautiful Atlanta nurse. But he must return to Germany or relinquish his family fortune and rear children under the name of another man. Will Grace forgive his duplicity and accept him as a loyal American?

Cover of A Secret Life by Lee Carver
Cover of "The Most Excellent Adventure" by Lee Carver

World Travel & Humor

The Most Excellent Adventure

What is it like to travel the world, acquiring new languages and foreign customs? What could be so funny about being robbed in a foreign country? Spicy stories tell the perils of foreign business deals, household servants, and a waiter with a lipstick smudge. (Previously published as Did I Just Kiss the Waiter?) True adventures from those who lived them!