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The bookshelf

Stories that stay with you, long after the last page.

From a Montana homestead to a Caribbean tearoom, from frontier friendship to Southern suspense — every book Deanna has written lingers long after the last page. They're all here, with links to take one home.

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What readers are saying

In their own words.

Books

"I absolutely love how she writes. The Huckleberry Hannah Series books were utterly ‘feel good.’ They reminded me of Little House on the Prairie or Anne of Green Gables."

— Libby Johnson

Books

"It's about time that Christian fiction stepped into the suspense genre. Escaping Tranquil held me to the very end — couldn't put it down."

— Susan Jones

Books

"Faithfully Mine and Me is a delightful devotional about a young woman learning the truth about faith. Sweet yet poignant."

— Sharon Comstock

Speaking

"I laughed until I cried and cried until I laughed. She was so engaging and approachable that I felt like she was speaking to me alone."

— Lisa Wallace

Speaking

"I am not a conference kind of gal, but this speaker was the best. She held my attention and left me with real ‘take away’ inspiration for my life."

— Deborah Lewis

Teaching

"Her class on ‘Write Your Testimony in Living Color’ was just wonderful!"

— Lucy Stanton

Featured title

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Book One of the Escaping Series

Escaping Tranquil

Hackberry, Tennessee, is a little slice of heaven for Tranquil 'Quil' Tandy. Her 150-year-old family home provides a respite from a horrifying college experience she's desperate to forget. There is no room in her life for God, until she's forced to confront the bitterness she holds in her heart. Deanna Hansen-Doying's thriller combines the taut plotting of a sterling suspense novel with a message of forgiveness and redemption to remind us that God's arm is not too short, and grace is always within reach.

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More from Deanna

The full collection

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Huckleberry Hannah Series, Book 1

Bluebird

At the turn of the twentieth century in a very small Montana town called Bluebird, two adolescent girls, Hannah and Emily, are growing up with a penchant for adventure, fishing and a deep abiding friendship. Known for their imaginative antics they were inseparable. Together they set off on adventures too big for even themselves with consequences that will last decades. So begins the saga of their friendship told through memories, diaries, and letters spanning more than 60 years.

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Huckleberry Hannah Series, Book 2

Huckleberry Hannah's Montana Country Cooking Sampler

In 1901, two young women began a long-distance friendship. Though the characters in this book, Hannah and Emily, probably never really existed they certainly could have. Their friendship portrayed in letters spanning more than forty years will touch your heart, warm your spirit, tickle your funny bone and make this cookbook one you will forever cherish.

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Huckleberry Hannah Series, Book 3

Wildflowers

What if your best friend, one you have not seen in forty-five years, moved home and said, 'Let's open an inn.' And you said, 'Yes, let's.' Post WWII in the small town of Bluebird, Montana, two sixty-something women set out on the adventure of a venture together. Will friendship be the glue that holds their business together? Or will the business hold their friendship together?

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Faithfully Mine and Me

The kitten is tiny, barely one week old, when a solemn boy hands her to Deanna. Deanna doesn't know it, but her life is about to change. Containing fifty-two journal-style devotions, Faithfully Mine & Me is an inspirational example of how the smallest moments can change a life, and a soul, forever.

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For readers, book clubs, and lifelong note-takers.

Reading guides

Discussion prompts and companion resources are available for book clubs and classrooms — reach out to request a guide for any title.

Where to find each book

Every title above links directly to Amazon. Reach out if you'd like to know about other retailers or signed copies.

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