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Rosa Marima is confused, distraught…and running away. Convinced she’s wasted the past twenty years of not only her life, but that of her husband, the nearing-sixty-year-old woman announces that she needs time away from the struggling motel that she and her husband, George, run together. He believes she’s angry that he withheld the truth about the financial situation of the business. But her angst runs much deeper, to a painful time in her past she thought she’d finally released, but which has come back to haunt her. While at her retreat in a cabin in the mountains over four hours ...

A young lady who has known nothing but slavery since the age of nine. A young man who wants to be her hero. And the dark powers that will do anything to keep that from happening... ********** What if you'd been a slave since childhood, and were suddenly thrown out into the streets without a clue about how the world works? This is exactly what happens to eighteen-year-old Dalia. First forced to be a choir member from ages nine to sixteen by a white man claiming to be her adoptive father, then sold off to another white man who kept her chained in a bedroom to do computer work, she dreams of ...

Liz despises men, thanks to her abusive ex-husband. Leslie is a single woman, struggling to keep her wayward teenage son from going down the same road her ex-husband did. They both believe men are the scum of the earth…until Liz’s ex shows up unexpectedly, pushing both women to learn critical lessons about grace when he becomes an unlikely hero… ********** Fourteen-year-old Ryan Pierce is determined to prove his independence to the world – or, at least to his mother. When Leslie Pierce suspects her son has begun sneaking off in the middle of the night to do drugs in the small ...

She thinks she’s in love, but is afraid of mistaking attraction for the real thing. He can’t let himself fall in love, because he has no idea what he wants to do with his life, beyond his impossible dream. His mother would do anything to get her husband to notice her again…at least she thinks so, until the unthinkable happens… ********** Bethany Mitchell has a thing for Shane Patterson. The problem is, he lives over a thousand miles away. A bigger problem is, her feelings for him don’t seem to be mutual. The biggest problem of all? She has no idea how to know if a particular ...

A heart-wrenching nightmare. A frustrating recurring dream. A dim hope that seems impossible... ********* Jen has avoided romantic relationships for twenty years, knowing that getting into one would be a constant reminder of her shattered dreams. Tommy is Jen's secret admirer...but the ghosts from his past tell him he could never be good enough for her. However, when an incident at the Phoenix business conference where Jen is teaching drives them together, they soon become entangled in a journey full of mystery and suspense as Jen realizes she's being stalked. The harassment continues and ...

The last thing he expects is that his new co-worker would take over his heart in an instant. The last thing she wants is for a white man to give her any attention. They both need a miracle, and soon, or their respective worlds will be turned upside-down... *********** When the young Mexican lady named Antonia goes to work at the motel where Max is the desk clerk, he loses his heart to her from day one. Problem is, she cannot stand the sight of white men. Then one day, several years after Antonia has been working there, he takes a bullet for her – and she is forced to face her prejudices. ...

Her deepest desire looks like an impossibility…unless she dares to break down the walls she’s built around her heart, which may be an even greater challenge. He yearns for a lifelong partner and a mother for his sweet daughter, but doesn’t know if he can ever love again. Then her bitter enemy comes along, appearing to have changed for the better, but appearances can not only be deceiving, but also bring chaos and devastation… ********** When Miguel Manriquez lost his wife during the birth of their only child, Diana, he thought he’d lost everything. Now, seven years later, with ...

A woman who has sealed her heart against love… …the man who can’t help but fall for her... …and a bitter enemy with a thirst for deadly revenge… ****** As sister to and talent manager of world-famous rock star Julio Estrella, Danita Ramirez could have the pick of any man she wants. But she has neither the time nor inclination to get involved with a man. Especially not a musician. Numerous past experiences have taught her that her brother’s ability to remain a morally upstanding person is extremely rare in the world of celebrities, especially in the world of rock and pop music. ...

**Although this novel is part of a series, it can be read as a stand-alone.** One man rejected her for what he thought were valiant reasons at the time… a second man ruined her life with his own fears… can either of them have any hope with her again, after all these pain-filled years? ********** For the past seven years, Jordan Rathman has been living a quiet, peaceful life in the small northern town of Little River Village. Having had her heart broken not once, but twice, in the span of two years, she has stayed well away from anything smacking of romance. But there’s another reason ...

Rosa is running from the storm of emotion that resulted from a serious deception she unwittingly carried out against her brand new husband. Sixteen-year-old Nashe is running away from the injustice of his life as a pastor’s son. But neither planned to get lost in the African bush, and they both soon realize that running away is likely to cause problems a hundred times worse than those that they left behind... ********* The morning after Rosa and George’s wedding, neither could be a happier person. On their way to their honeymoon in Zimbabwe, George’s home country, he eagerly ...

**Although this novel is part of a series, it can easily stand on its own.** She’s a Christian, pregnant, but not of her own volition… He’s an atheist and quintessential Real Estate tycoon, threatening her very livelihood… The unwanted baby could be the tie that binds them, or the instrument that tears them apart… * ********* Twenty-eight-year-old Lisa Burns has always dreamed of being a wife and mother. But not the one without the other. And certainly not by an act of violence. The gift shop she owns in the small, Midwestern town of Little River Village just meets her needs. But ...

Leila Dennis’ job as an elementary school art teacher fulfills her and is everything she wants in life. Until she meets Brad Riley. A new resident to Pine Grove, Brad is the father of one of Leila’s first-graders, Mary. His initial attentions warm her, make her think that like her two older sisters, she might have found the man who would become her husband. Until he turns cold and practically pushes her out of his life. She’s glad he does it early on, not so glad when Mary’s audition for the annual school holiday program is so outstanding that Leila and the music teacher, Patricia, ...

Few men can stand up to Carla Dennis’s strict standards of character. Jake Harrison, her new brother-in-law, is one of the many who fall way short in Carla’s eyes, made worse because of a couple of “facts” about him. she thought she gleaned at her sister’s wedding several months ago. This has made life much more difficult for Jake, as he fell for the stubborn, unbending woman the minute he set eyes on her almost a year ago. No longer willing to live with the frustration any longer, he determines to set Carla straight about her misunderstanding and then wash his hands of her for ...

Beth Hanlon is running out of time. If she doesn’t get to the Tulsa airport before the winter storm hits, she will be trapped. And probably found. She might have made it, had it not been for a deer running across the road in front of her car in the middle of the night… Matthew Anderson lives a quiet life on his parents’ rural southeast Oklahoma property, with a plan to finally be on his own in a couple of years, making a living off his own homestead. But when he encounters an overturned vehicle on the road, his plans are shaken to the core when he cannot shake his attraction to Beth. ...

Paul Court is everything Erin Halley wants in a man. So she thinks as she partners with him to start her first home-based business. At the very least, she knows that he is going to help her to be able to quit her teaching job in less than a year. Rodney Lofton has been quietly watching Erin for the past year and a half, and when he finally meets her, knows that God has finally brought him his soulmate. But Erin has eyes only for Paul…and her promised growing bank account. When things turn out to be very different than they had seemed, Erin’s disillusionment and heartbreak threaten even ...

A woman who will protect her young brother at any cost… ...The man determined to win her heart… ...And the fathers whose shadows threaten them all… ********** Twenty-seven year old Talia Lovejoy trusts no one. She can’t, because she never knows who might be working for the father of her six-year-old half-brother, a father in name only, because his intent toward his son is pure malice. But when the keyboardist for a famous rock band, Tiger O’Keefe, sees her signing to worship songs on a DVD, he’s determined to seek her out – even though it means entering a religious fellowship,...

She’s a health and nutrition coach who needs temporary housing after her roommate and best friend elopes. He’s the lead singer of a popular American band who needs a personal chef for a couple of months to help him get his health back on track. What neither one of them needs is for a criminal to be living right under their noses… ****** Violet Carter’s health and nutritional coach business is doing well, but not well enough for her to be able to pay rent on an apartment in a nice part of Dallas all by herself, without having to give up on her financial goals. So when her best friend...

Pain and heartbreak linger in Renee Lawson’s soul even as she escapes to the Ozark mountains to act as one of the area’s cave guides. She is as determined to remain single as she is to stay away from her home state of New York, where gut-stabbing memories lie. Then Kirk Bedlow comes along. Handsome, confident, and strong, he immediately catches Renee’s attention – much to her dismay. She successfully avoids him like the plague until she meets the little girl with Down’s Syndrome in Kirk’s custody, Corrina, and the two become instant friends. Still, Renee is hesitant to visit her...