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*Previously title, "In Sheep's Clothing."* When entrepreneur Stephanie Miller meets successful accountant Jacob Wells, things are almost too perfect. Their affection grows despite its deceptive beginning. Their business skills complement each other and they enjoy each other's company, but all solid relationships are built on trust, which threatens to elude them. When Stephanie meets someone from Jacob's past, a new friendship develops, but her friend tries to destroy the faith she has in Jacob. Stephanie then opens another internet business and keeps it from Jacob. Strange things start ...

Diane is a lawyer who fights for the rights of children placed in foster care. She's determined to give them what she never had - a functional family. It's a tough job, but she loves advocacy. She understands what it feels like to be unwanted, or worse, desired solely because of what she could do for her parents. This dark time from her childhood still influences her adult life. Men want her, but their overtures are always motivated by what she can do for them. Nobody loves her for herself. Better to remain single than be used again. Dave hires Diane to help him retain custody of his foster...

Before an accident took her out of the arena, Kami Garrett traveled with the women's professional rodeo circuit. Flashbacks from her crippling injury have made it impossible to perform her routines with confidence, so she settles for providing horseback riding lessons on her great-uncle's ranch in Surprise, Arizona. Kami grew up loving baseball because her father played for the Diamondbacks and they were very close. As the result of her parents' divorce, she refuses to date a pro ballplayer and risk ending up miserable like her mother. Everything changes, however, when a sexy, ambitious ...

*Previously titled, "Danger at the Door."* Since her fiance's tragic death, Laney rarely leaves her home, and even then it's only for emergencies. Over time, she becomes a recluse. Loneliness begins to dominate her life, but it's the overwhelming fear that controls it. She manages to survive -- barely -- on food delivery services and her work-at-home job. When she tries to move on from her grief the commemorative meal she orders is ruined, but it leads to an unlikely friendship with an attractive man who speaks little English. Bojan feels awful about delivering the ruined meal. He befriends...

Bree Le Fleur desires to remain pure for her future husband. When she moves to Arizona, she meets her new neighbor, Donato Garafalo Jr., race car driver and model. Despite his charisma and charm, she's not impressed. After Bree gets to know Donny, she decides he's not such a bad guy. She reluctantly agrees to pose as his fiancée to help Donny convince his father that he's a reformed man. While participating in the ruse, she is attracted to him in ways she never anticipated. At the same time, she can't help wondering why a man with a playboy reputation would be interested in a girl with no ...

Donny and Bree are living the good life. He runs a very successful business. She's a happy stay-at-home mom. They own a beautiful house in a safe neighborhood and are still very much in love. With a precious toddler son and twin baby girls on the way, surely their life can't get any better than this. Then the housing market crashes and the economy starts to flounder. Gas prices are on the rise and nobody is buying anything. The income that sustains their happy little family dries up and Donny has to lay people off. After one last failed attempt to sell the business, he dreads telling his ...

*Previously title, "First Love."* Josiah and Tara enjoyed acting in their high school plays and were each other's first lover. In fact, most of the time they'd spent together had been in Tara's bed. When Josiah became a Christian, he left Tara to go to college and didn't look back. Four years later, Josiah is back in town when his father has a near-fatal heart attack. When they meet up again they realize how much their separation had hurt each of them. But now Tara is a Christian and is trying to live a life that is pleasing to God. Josiah wants Tara back, but neither knows how to relate to...

Hope believes she is above sexual temptation. After all, she is a good Christian and loving mother. She has no reason to stray...until her husband starts neglecting her needs and things begin to look hopeless. Though she communicates her pain to her husband, he refuses to get help. She soon learns that she, too, is capable of such betrayal when she succumbs to the unthinkable. What at first seems reasonable given her painful situation soon produces a bitter taste when combined with the overwhelming guilt. Hope wants to tell her husband the truth, hoping it might propel him to do something ...

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing when you experience it in marriage... But what if you don't? Tony Perotta and Hope Williams are each recovering from their affair and trying to work things out in their marriages. But what happened when they went their separate ways? Did they heal enough to enjoy their marriages as before, or were they worse off after their sin was exposed? Their Separate Ways takes a close-up look at their hearts and their family situations as they reflect on the painful memories resulting from that devastating choice and they attempt to return their lives to normal. ...

*Previously titled, "First Impressions."* Sammie Carpenter understands how a uniform influences behavior. Wearing her Army fatigues puts her in the mindset of a soldier and donning her Class-A Uniform always helps her shift into Captain Mode. So what harm could come from her dressing like a saloon girl and strutting through the streets of Tombstone? She didn't know how to flirt to save her life, and she wasn't getting any younger. When she met the lonesome stud cowboy, Jimmy, she knew he was the one. So why was their communication always so awkward? Couldn't he see that she was interested ...

Deena attracted guys, but not because of her good looks. They wanted to get close to her pretty friends. She never cared about getting noticed until she met Tony, the guy who seduced her college roommate and ultimately destroyed her life. Despite his reckless ways, Deena's heart was drawn to him. Tony knew how to attract women, but he always ended up hurting them. Deena was willing to take that risk, but would he ever fall for a plain girl like her?

* Previously titled "When Love Collides." * Ten years ago, Raquel dumped Scott for an abusive man. Too bad she didn’t understand that Scott loved her enough to marry her. She thought they were just good friends because Scott never made his feelings known and interpreted his lack of physical affection as a lack of romantic interest. Now they meet again because of Raquel's troubling physical symptoms that come and go. When she finally sought medical attention, Scott was the last person she expected to see walk into her exam room. This time Raquel is a widow—emotionally fragile from years ...

*Previously titled, "First Response."* Trinity is a massage therapist who has issues with men. Her last ex was a no good cheater. But she misses dating, and especially kissing. When she meets Chet she decides she must have him. They start dating and things heat up quickly. They are caught between wanting to prove themselves since their former relationships left them insecure, and doing the right thing, which is to wait for marriage. It proves to be more difficult than either of them anticipated. Chet's first response to Trinity when he receives an unexpected massage embarrasses him, but he ...

**Previously titled, "In Plain Sight."* Jovana Trajkovski manages to crawl back to her parents' home in Macedonia after being abandoned and left for dead by her gypsy boyfriend. Her brother Bojan offers her a new life in Arizona where she will be safe, so she moves in with her future sister-in-law. As her brother's honeymoon approaches and concerns for her safety arise, he asks his close friend, Randy, to stay with her while he and his new wife are in Paris. Randy Strong is an attractive, honest, and moral man who speaks Jovana's language. He's more than just her brother's good friend. He ...

After passing out at a party, Susie wound up pregnant and has no idea who the father is or how she will support her child. She wants to give her baby the happy childhood she never had growing up and sees adoption as the best option. Jeff feels responsible for what happened to Susie at his party and offers to help her raise the child. He tries to get her to change her mind, but she isn't listening. She wants a man who truly loves her, not a man who pities her situation. Can Jeff prove his love before it's too late?

A beautiful girl with plans to go to college has her life shattered one night in a horrific act of violence. Her boyfriend blames himself and his older brother steps in to pick up the slack. As she heals both inside and out, she finds her heart torn between the love of two brothers.

These four novellas make one complete book. From 1982 to 1992 Melissa's life takes many twists and turns as she makes mistakes in love and marriage and learns from them all.

Taylor Lucero was blessed with better-than-average looks. In fact, she's gorgeous. Until they know her, people don't realize she has intellectual challenges. Most ignore her, except for the guys lacking integrity. They see a young woman who will fall for their lies. Taylor is stubborn, though, and doesn't understand that men sometimes have less-than-stellar motives for wanting to date her. Mike Johnson is a college freshman. He meets a beautiful girl while flying to Tucson to enroll in college and wonders what will become of her because she's so vulnerable. They run into each other again, ...

Love is a decision, or is it merely an emotion? Eight years after Tony and Hope's affair ended, new problems arise. Jimmy has gone off to college, but returns home with a startling revelation that devastates his father and causes his final heart attack. Now Hope is grieving the loss of both her husband and their son. She tries to make sense of everything, and in the end she decides to love her son through the grief. More than that, she makes the decision to love whoever her son chooses to love, whether she agrees with his choices or not. Tony's life has its own disaster tearing through it. ...

Learning to Trust is the fourth book in the Sacred Vows series. Three couples in love learn that building trust with a new spouse is more difficult than they expected. Since two of the couples have been married before, they know that truth all too well. Follow three newly married couples as they navigate the difficult waters of marriage and remarriage. Each battles trust issues as they become parents. Jimmy has a past that includes intimacy with men. His wife wonders if she'll be enough to keep him from returning to that lifestyle. Tony had a number of affairs before finding peace with God ...