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Mirisa returns to the Plantation with her son to await the birth of her twins while Dominic stays at the ranch trying to deal with what she has done. He struggles with his own reaction of how much he loves her and how he can accept her infidelity.

It was the bottom of the ninth with a runner on first and third. The afternoon was warm and the sound of the ice cream truck broke through the silence as Collin stepped up to the plate and turned his cap backwards as he glared out at the pitcher with a cockiness that only a fifteen year old could possess. The bleachers were filled with the neighborhood friends and girlfriends sitting on the edge of their seats then the chortling began in earnest. Mitch looked to first holding Jeremy’s eyes for a spit second as Sam moved away from first in anticipation of Jeremy stealing a base. Jeremy ...

In 1934, Stella Cooper was on the verge of leaving home to attend college with so many adventures in her future and independence beckoning her to accept the challenges of being almost mature. Having raised herself in a home of a dedicated doctor who offered her the world but was to dedicated to his profession to see the changes in her, Stella headed east to pick out a college to attend. That is when happenstance changed her life as the college changed her dreams.

Captain Rowland Sawyer of the U.S. Army began his career after graduating from Virginia Military Institute. When war broke out across the country, his job was to find and arrest spies, traitors and the growing criminal element in both the government and the Army. During an assignment in the Gap, he crosses paths with Josie Younger the wife of his good friend Thomas Younger who has been reported as missing in action near Chancellorsville, Virginia. Her reckless decision to search for her husband brings together the many friends from the Institute as they stand on opposite sides of the ...

After finishing her studies at the University in London, Abigail was excited about returning to Tennessee and her family. With her best friend's wedding scheduled for the fall, Abigail decided to spend the summer in Wales with her grandparents before returning home. Expecting a quiet summer, she was unhinged when the first note arrived challenging her parentage. There was no one in Great Britain who would know her family or their past but she was determined to solve the mystery on her own. The drama that rise from the many Royal and Titled families who vacation in Cardiff become entangled ...

Samantha Danley's father sends her away to an exclusive girl's boarding school in Connecticut knowing that his days are short as his diseased body rapidly steals his ability to function. Feeling the loss of being ripped from her home and loving father, Samantha slowly adjusts to her new life. Before her twenty-first birthday, Samantha is summonsed home to Boston by her father's lawyer to take control of her inheritance but she doesn't plan on staying until she meets Thomas O'Malley. Her journey of independence and love is anything but a fairy tale as she struggles with abandonment and ...

THIS was probably the worst Christmas Sandy could remember since losing her father but she had to acknowledge that it was the first one in which she was 'me' and not a 'we' anymore. That took less energy because there were no expectations allowing you to just float through the day not acknowledging the loneliness that came in that box. How many times had she listened to friends moan about the loneliness after a breakup? She thought about the support and love of the best friends who cocooned you until the tears dried up. The friends who assured you that the love of your life was a heel and ...

After the death of her father, Doctor Bailey Willow fled California from her abusive husband with only the thought of disappearing forever. Bailey makes her way to the Philippines hoping to find her mother who abandoned her at birth. The villagers refusal to help her in her search was compounded by the attack and occupation of the Japanese Imperial Army starting the war in the Pacific Theater in 1941. On a small remote island at the time of the attack, Bailey decided that it was the perfect place to give her refuge from her past. She didn't count on how the war would change her life.

No one imagined that the war in which their husbands and sons were fighting in the south would tiptoe into their town and take something so precious as their feelings of safety. The government halted the swapping of prisoners that created the desperate moves of the southern soldiers as they abducted the young daughter of a Brigadier General. It was a bold move that changed so many lives.

Book 2, Secrets of the Isles, of the Series of the Ellery Sisters brings in new characters as the youngest daughter, Penny, deals with the death of her husband. The first book of the Series, John Ellery's Daughters, is about five sisters orphaned during the civil war. Young and headstrong, the five orphaned Ellery sisters take up arms to protect what they have but the story is about the path each sister chooses as they start a new life after the war trying to put aside their memories. Penny Ellery Calderon, the youngest sister, finds her world torn apart forcing her to seek out answers to ...

Book 5 - The Life of Mirisa Eppes. Mirisa looked from the door to the opening in the floor. She wrapped her arm around the rope and disappeared down the hole as Butch stumbled into the room landing on his face as he saw the top of her head disappear. A splintered piece of the wood door was sticking out of his thigh leaving a blood trail across the floor as he cursed. Butch’s big hands reached for the rope and started pulling it up as Mirisa put her feet against the stone wall bracing her back and trying to keep from losing her grip. She looked at Butch’s face which was grimaced as he ...

Mirisa suddenly sat straight up as panic pushed against her chest. A dark silhouette of a man was sitting in the wing chair next to the fire smoking a cigar watching her. Her heart was pounding so fast that she couldn’t breathe and she didn’t know if it was a dream or maybe Conrad. She closed her eyes and reached out for him. Conrad touched her lightly and she looked at him then looked at the fireplace and the man was still there. Conrad put his hand on her arm to calm her. The voice brought her attention back to him. “I was surprised you turned down my offer.” “How did you get in...

This is the final book in The Visitor Series. Charisse sat on the bar as the police came through both the side and front door with their billy clubs out and ready to use. They were shocked to see that the fight was nothing but petty coats and flying hair. They slowly separated and pulled them off of each other as they put them in the patty wagon. They finally got the Madame up off the floor and took her out the door as Mirisa stood and wobbled until she grabbed the bar for support. Charisse smiled at her moxie. She had never been arrested before but it sure felt good to deal with all that ...

Mirisa Eppes was born in 1846, the only daughter of a wealthy Virginia family. When the war broke out in the South, she was on the verge of coming out in society as a beautiful obedient daughter with dreams of marriage and children. However, destiny had been waiting a long time for her and once she stepped through the doors of the haunted Natchez plantation her life would never be ordinary or peaceful. 1862 takes you through her journey into the past with Conrad who is trying to lift a curse placed on his family as she opens up to feelings of desire and confusion. The entire Series of The ...

This is an October 2014 revised edition of the original book. When the smoke of the Civil War cleared the once beautiful countryside, it left behind abandoned farmland, burnt down homes and a once peaceful thriving community. The lives and stories of the people of America were lost or maybe intentionally buried in the painful memories of conflict and mortality. In 1861, Sara was seventeen when their father, John Ellery, rode off in the midst of the battle that encroached upon the lower fields of the family farm. He never returned. Left to guide her younger sisters Alison, Kate, Betsy and ...

Book II of the series of the Life of Mirisa Eppes takes Dominic and Mirisa to Texas where they start a horse ranch and a family. The ranch consumes so much of Dominic's life while Mirisa begins to struggle with living on the fringe of his passions. Trying to find her place in this world dominated by men and nature, Mirisa constantly finds herself in dangerous situations that push her to fight against her basic fear and the need to deal with her emotions in the fight to be less dependent on the men in her life.

Born out of an adulterous affair, Rebecca Cooper inherits her father's estate in 1867 but must marry in order to control the trust and remain married for one year. She hatches a plan to marry a stranger she finds living in her grandfather's cabin in the Catskills. Believing in the year that she can find love and happiness with him, she is thrown into his life that is anything except easy for her to handle. Rebecca struggles with her emotions before leaving to find something that will make her forget Ryan Ford and her ill-hatched plan.

A heist of the Union Payroll had never been successfully pulled off until Luther Harper put together nine misfits. Ten Union soldiers disappeared into the cold night heading in different directions but the Dark Man was patient. Five of the men headed south believing the government would be unable to track them. Their appetite for killing grew with each day on the run putting them in the path of sixteen year old Megan. Life changed that day in the cornfield for them, as Juliette reached down changing Megan's fate. Knowing the future doesn't always change the things that happen but only ...