Huguley is also the author of 'Migrations of the Heart,' a five-book series of inspirational historical romances set in the early 20th century featuring African American characters. Book two in the series, The Mayor's Mission, will be independently published in the fall of 2014. Book one in the series, The Preacher's Promise, was a semi-finalist in Harlequin's So You Think You Can Write contest,and a quarter-finalist in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The series traces the love stories at a small 'Teachers and Preachers' college in Georgia over time, beginning with the love story of the founders.

Piper G Huguley is the author of the 'Home to Milford College' series. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. To reflect God’s promise, these combatants must put aside their differences and come together-somehow. In the aftermath of the flood that was the Civil War, God set his bow upon the earth to show love and understanding for humankind. To keep THE PREACHER’S PROMISE, Amanda and Virgil must put aside their enmity, unite for the sake of a newly-created community in a troubling age, and do things they never imagined. If only he didn’t have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover.

He cannot forget the promise he made to his daughter’s mother as she died-that their child would learn to read and write. He must organize his fellow formerly enslaved citizens into a new town and raise his young daughter alone. On top of everything else, the schoolteacher lady has a will hard enough to match the iron he forges. Virgil Smithson, Milford’s mayor, blacksmith and sometimes preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory, doesn’t want anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North. However, when she arrives, the mayor tells her to leave. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. Sorting through her father’s papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Her father’s unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. 1866 – Oberlin, Ohio/ Milford, Georgia Devastated by her father’s death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world.

The Preacher's Promise by Piper Huguley