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Snuggle up in front of a blazing fire, your favorite quilt, and a piping mug of hot chocolate as you delve into this sweet, holiday romance. On the other hand, forget the hot chocolate, or it will end up coming out your nose from all the chuckling and laughing you’re going to do. Kylie Dennis, one of the top sales associates for the department store where she works, has given up on men. Not a one can live up to her standards. And they’re not even that high: be an interesting, kind person whose main goal in talking to her is to get her into bed with him. When the H.R. department asks her...

**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 ...

She’s an out-of-work actress, fleeing from an enemy. He’s a handyman-cum-trade writer, fleeing from what is certain to be an awkward and painful family Christmas. Neither one wants a relationship, but when God is in control, wonderful things are bound to happen… Rochelle Erhardt’s goal is to make it from L.A. to North Carolina by car before Christmas. With a new haircut, fresh wheels, and large sunglasses, she is confident no one will recognize her. Until those “fresh wheels” break down in northwest Arkansas. Suspecting that she is being followed by the one person who can ruin ...

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 ...

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, ...

Becky Dennis has two main goals in life. The first is to find a fulfilling job. The second? To stay away from men for the rest of her life. Hurt badly by her last boyfriend, Becky wishes the best for her five older sisters who have found their soul mates, but she herself is convinced she’ll be much happier if she gives up on romance altogether and finds a way to live a fulfilling single life. When Vance Wilder comes on board at the small clinic where she’s a receptionist, she at first doesn’t give him a second glance. However, about a month into his career as an pediatric occupational...

She’s an artist, at the resort to paint the beauty of the Ozark mountains… and to try to forgive her ex. He’s here because his boss commanded him to take a break, or else. The mistake he made at work was too big to ignore. Neither expects to see the other, but when they do, the old wounds, sorrow, and resentment will not be kept tamped down… Six years ago, Megan Tyler divorced her husband, Brian. They’d gone their separate ways, and she’d hoped never to see them again after the way he broke her heart. She certainly never expected that she would one day encounter him many miles ...

A music teacher determined never to celebrate Christmas again… …the ninety-year-old woman weighed down with guilt and remorse… …and the man who wants nothing more than to bring the light of the holiday back into both hearts… ********** For Janice Michaels, the bane of her career as a music teacher is preparing students for the annual winter holiday program. Christmas has brought nothing but grief and loneliness for the past decade, after she lost her beloved husband to a fatal car accident. Hearing holiday music day after day during the first few months of the school year is like ...

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 ...

The perfect romance for vegans, vegetarians, and their wannabe cohorts... A small-town, simple-living vegan girl, terrified of being in the limelight… …the most famous celebrity on the planet, convinced that she’s his soul mate… …and an untimely lawsuit that forces them to make choices that will either make or break their lives... ************ ***PLEASE NOTE: I have edited and revised those portions relating to the character Deshawn that caused offense to some readers. Even though I'd patterned his speech after a friend who is more educated than I. Just sayin'.*** All Rachel ...

When an unknown person kills her evil boss, she's finally free to pursue a better life. Her new boss, a godly man full of kindness and compassion, falls for her instantly. But her past, as well as the unknown killer – who is intent on quenching the soul-parching thirst for revenge – threaten to destroy everything… ********* Rosa Manriquez wants nothing more than to extricate herself from her career as a topless dancer in Dallas, Texas. It’s not easy, working for a boss who has beat up – and worse – his “girls” who have tried to leave their jobs in the past. But when Rosa ...

Being different can feel like a curse… until God turns your life upside down and shows you the true blessing that it is… Angela Parker is at odds with herself. Working at the Crazy Quilt Cabins resort in northwest Arkansas, she has seen beautiful romances unfold between several of the guests, and has been pining for her own happily-ever-after. Then her great-aunts, who own and help manage the resort, decide to take the year 1991 to fulfill their dreams of traveling the country. Angie is left alone for weeks at a time to run the resort by herself, thereby becoming convinced that she ...

What if the one secret you were holding was the one thing holding you back from a life of complete freedom? Arianna, a sixteen-year-old from Uganda, is on the run. Who and what she is running from, she doesn't want to tell. She's learned, over the past eight years, not to trust Americans. But when an injury forces her onto the mercy of Allison Whitlock, who finds Arianna in her shed one cold, southeast Oklahoma winter morning, she begins to see that some people are worth her trust. That is, until Allie's best friend comes along, pushing Arianna to make a decision that could not only destroy...

Many people feel lost today, on a number of different levels, for a number of different reasons. If you're one of them. read on... The pre-Internet modern world had been stressful enough, the constant outside pressure to do more and accumulate more was sufficient cause for people to forget – or ignore – who they really were, what they could be if only they could get off of the hamster wheel that society told them was necessary for “success.” Now with social media, streaming movies and television, access to instant information, and a constant flow of news, everyone is being ...

Daniel West has a problem... The woman he’s secretly been in love with since middle school has no interest in romance or marriage. Michelle Dennis has only ever seen their relationship as best friends, and has told Daniel repeatedly that she doesn’t want to get married or have children. Not being able to turn her heart toward his is yet another failure in his life, and he finally gives up on having any chance with her so thoroughly, that he allows his friend and co-worker to pursue her. Michelle carries a secret, too, the only one she’s never told Daniel. Her adamant insistence that ...

**REVISED, UPDATED AND EXPANDED VERSION to explode your finances in the 2020s and beyond!** What would you say if I told you that you could achieve financial independence much earlier than you think? That is, in the next ten to twenty years, rather than the thirty to forty years it takes most people...if they ever achieve it at all? How about if I told you you could do it without building an MLM business, gambling, or winning the lottery? How can I make such a wild claim? Because my husband and I reached financial independence by our early forties, using no money except that which we were ...

I am not a country-clubbing kind of woman. In fact, I’d rather get a root canal than mingle with the kind of women that socialize at country clubs. I don’t fit in with them. I am what you might call unconventional when it comes to the mainstream ideas of beauty and fashion. But when my best friend – and cousin’s wife – Marilyn invites me to her pool party with her country club friends, I kind of have to accept. First, my children and I have been staying with her and my cousin for the past month while my husband has been away. So we’re already at her house. It would be kind of ...

One teacher, running toward the will of God... Another teacher, falling fast for her, but running away from the will of God... The child with the open and tender heart who brings them together... And a forgotten envelope that holds the key to everything... [PLEASE NOTE: The language that offended some of the reviewers of earlier editions of this novel has been removed.] Sheila Carson is a Kindergarten teacher in Dallas, Texas, estranged from her family while struggling with feeling more and more dissatisfied with her job. For the same reason she’s avoided her family like the plague these ...

She’s come back home with her proverbial tail between her legs, hating herself and desperate for a change. He’s been hoping and waiting for a second chance with her, not realizing he was the reason she fled her hometown in the first place… ********** Sarah Dennis made a huge mistake. Running away from her feelings for Trevor Zimmerman, she ran straight into trouble. Now home, she carries the secret of what has transpired in her life during her eighteen-month absence, not wanting to admit her failures to her family. All she wants is to start over with a completely new career and find ...

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. ...