Aunt Crete's Emancipation All her life, Aunt Crete has been tormented by sister and her niece but fate has something else in store for her. The arrival of Aunt Crete's nephew suddenly causes a reversal in her fortune and she gets a chance to live a life of love and respect. Cloudy Jewel Just when misfortune is about to threaten Julia Cloud to become an unpaid nanny to her selfish sister's children, fate smiles upon this ageing but lovable spinster. Julia's other niece and nephew (from her brother) make her feel loved and welcome again and she embarks on a lively adventure with her new family. But will she succeed in instilling Christian values in these two?

Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill's messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God's ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill's novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.