Captive Heart, Elizabeth Bourgeret's first offering to the public in book form is a story of faith and forgiveness. She takes us through a journey with Sarah Dobson, a young widowed mother, as she must move across the states in order to forge a new life. 

Along the way, she is met with friends that appear to be enemies. Enemies that are disguised as friends. Her faith is tested, her memories haunt her and her dreams for her happiness are very different than when she began. 

These are the trials that can cripple you for life or can build your faith so completely that you become the better, stronger part of you. Captive Heart is the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of this woman, reeling from the death of her son and struggling against the prejudices she was raised with. 

Will her faith be enough to carry her through the betrayals and the heartbreak toward a life of her own? Or will she be forced to live a life where her heart is held captive?

Hannah Michaelson, third year medical student, always thought her calling was to help heal people. Now she’s wondering how she could have gotten everything so wrong.

A series of tragedies left her feeling alone & defeated, even questioning her very existence.

She had yet to discover that just because you can’t see your calling, or it is momentarily shrouded in darkness doesn’t mean that miracles can’t happen. And Hannah needed a miracle...

...but she was given a gift.

"With a surprising plot twist toward the beginning of this novel, Elizabeth has written another delicious and enthralling literary gem. I couldn't put it down, and as is true of every great story, I didn't want to see it end. Hands down, EASILY 5 stars...."

What a GREAT story!!

Part of the Bakersfield Series

When life sends you challenges you weren't expecting you have two choices. You can either fold under the pressure or you can face it head on and change your future.

Gillian Sanders' future was about to change. Her husband had left her for another woman and since she is not the type to crumble when times get rough, she hardened her heart to begin a new life without him.

She chose to rise above and relocate to another state to purchase a ranch, sight unseen. There, she decided she could stay busy enough so that she would never have to risk her heart again.

But a pair of blue eyes had another plan in mind.

Read the story of how Gillian overcame her trials and learned to open her home and her heart, leaving her past behind her and choosing to love again.

Sometimes hiding from love is the best way to find it.

Part of the Bakersfield Series

Guinevere Collins was living a pretty great life. She was the Artistic Director for the Bakersfield Fine Arts Centre, working with her very best friend, Evelynn every single day. She was happily married to her "opposite" which, in her mind, gave her life balance. He was everything she wasn’t. And finally, they were preparing for a family. A child of her very own. A new baby was her only missing piece. If she could have a child, her home and life would be perfect. She knew her path. Everything was mapped out exactly according to plan. A lovely, straight line.

When a series of diversions unravel her timeline, she is thrown into a spiral of denial, anger and loss.

Will she be able to push through these trials by sheer determination using “focus” as a crutch to get back to her neatly, color-coded life or will she succumb to a new path... trusting a higher power to guide her through a detour.

Sometimes to find our way home we have to trust, even embrace the

unexpected changes in our direction.

All roads may lead home, but sometimes our definition of home changes along the way.

Part of the Bakersfield Series

When tragedy strikes and his younger daughter is killed in a car accident, James Carrigan, an expert classic car mechanic, buckles under the sadness and walks away from his life to deal with his demons, leaving 8 year old Danni Carrigan behind.

 Ten years later, when James decides to step back into fatherhood, he finds his little girl is no longer little. Her heart has been broken and her trust has been shattered. And she doesn't need her Daddy... 

She put everything out of her life that reminded her of him. She had a new life now. There was no room for tools and grease in a buttons and bows kind of world.

 All his years as an expert mechanic won't help him in putting his daughter's heart back together. Can James Carrigan repair the damage he has caused or will his efforts come up short? Or is there even a thing as second chances...

(This book is not available for the Blind Date offer)

This is the final novel in the Bakersfield Series & it fills in all the unanswered questions lingering from A Detour Home of  best friends, Evelynn St.Lawrence & Gwen Collins.

Can the circle of friends at the Bakersfield Fine Arts Centre get the couple to the alter? Will the events of the past, the present or even the looming future stand in the way of marital bliss?

Yes, there will be a wedding... but who? And at what cost?

Could a simple wedding just be too much to hope for?

“I actually hate this book. It kept me up all night reading it. I couldn’t put it down. I lost a whole nights sleep. I kept going back for more. It’s one of those books that you put down but think I just need to read one more chapter. Oh well. I just napped a lot the next day. I recommend it to anyone.”  -Sue Long