Browerville, Minnesota, is the setting of "Then Came Heaven," a novel of nostalgia for small towns, for the descendants of the Polish immigrants who settled such towns, and for the love of church life. As Spencer's tale begins, the year is 1950. The day is cast in the warm glow of early September as two railroad engineers debate then-current politics. But as their train approaches a crossing at Browerville, something terrible is about to happen. Krystyna...

A beautiful widow fights an Asian syndicate which is using criminal means--including a salmonella outbreak--to gain control of her chain of hotels. Fortunately for Dorothy-Anne Hale Cantwell, help is coming from Huntington Netherland Winslow III, a California senator and her second love, always provided his wife does not kill them both.