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This is a story about two different lives, and how God brought them together. Their lives were as different as night and day. One lived a righteous life, and the other lived a border life. Our first life is the life of Grace. For a long time Grace grew up on a cotton farm, in the State of Texas. Then one day a hard sand storm came, and they lost everything they had. Her father sold the farm and moved to a little town just outside of Waco. Grace lived...
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Blessed freedom will be hers if Suzanne can find wealthy husbands for her two volatile, marriage-minded younger sisters. Mama has done the research, and four men at a hotel conference are the targets:
Harry Bellemore --dashing, freedom-loving playboy
George Crump --prim, proper, with a mother to match
Derek Barnesforth --boyish, charming Englishman
Philippe Juneau --French, elegant, private
Betty is prone to outlandish behavior,
Nancy, more cautious,...
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The Paradox Of Damian is about love and family...but I'm open for argument. Some will argue that 'The Paradox Of Damian' is about hate. And I understand...after all a lot of people die in this book. If I have to argue, I think that one of my arguments will be for one to study the parables that dom the pages of the great spiritual book called the Bhagavad Gita; a book studied by such as the likes of an Albert Einstein. It was the great Mahatma Ghandi...
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The Trojan War is the most famous war ever fought. This is curious since its an accepted fact it never took place. But that doesnt matter. More people know about the Trojan Horse than about man walking on the moon. So even though it never was, the Trojan War cannot be erased from the conscience of humanity while man walks the earth. For a long time, Troy disappeared from the Western world. But Troy returned with full force in the Middle Ages, a time...
5) Unrequited
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(Center) Another sad heartbroken man. He was the man with sad eyes. Living as a supreme artist in the drizzly city of Portland Oregon, twenty-two year old John Watson is a man who wants to believe that one can be truly happy. Due to his ugly history and sudden break-up with the love of his life, he is left hopeless and finds himself sinking back into depression. But its not long until John discovers someone who could turn his lonely little world upside...
6) Ten Months
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Very few things affect us more than rejection by someone we want to love us but they don't, or they do but can't say it. This is especially true when two people are inhibited by conservative beliefs, religious fervor and the inability to follow their heart. A hard and distant father can be one of those people but so can your first encounter with romantic love when she or he passes through your life and then goes away. Our personal convictions can...
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Kelly Gerard is a twenty two year old university student who works at a bakery in her off school hours and when arriving for work is accidently bumped into by Mark Scott who has leased the adjoining store to the bakery in prospects of opening a hardware store. Mark Scott is twenty four, very handsome , uptight and business like. He is ungaged in the thought of being in a relationship The two bond during their day to day happenings and many other characters...
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Can a woman make it to the Major Leagues?
Twenty-five year old Casey Collins is somewhat of an anomaly. She is the only woman playing men's minor league baseball. When a series of events causes Casey to jump two divisions from Class A to Class AAA, it puts her one step away from the majors, and places her on a national stage. Sparking a nationwide debate, it asks the question, Can a woman compete in a man's sport at this level?
In a cross between...
9) The Student
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The Student" relates the story of Adam Harris as he navigates some of the challenges that may be part of a certain phase of experience. You take into account an understanding of human nature, paying special attention to the process normally associated with finding, keeping, or reconciling the seeming complexities of a bond with another person. The story implicitly raises questions about a range of issues, from identity and vocation to family bonds,...
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Lynn Williams is a single Mother of four she has a loving family,great parents, and life long friends. She found herself with two men in her life, one was the love she always craved for, tall and handsome rich in every way possible. The other tall handsome and the father of her children. All her life she tried to do the right thing. She was caught between the two. On one hand trying to keep the father of her children in their life. On the other trying...
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This book has the ability to port you into another time and world. It contains rich character that will fascinate your imagination and has cover to cover appeal with a fast moving storyline. Although rugged pirates, these sailors are men one would love spending hours dreaming about a pulse-pounding romance. The story contains steamy love scenes, a villain one loves to hate and laugh out loud moments that will titillate your reading pleasure. Although...
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As Sarah announces shes pregnant, Geology Professor Mark Kingsley retreats into silence -- their perfect marriage arrangement over. Still she remains until the doctoral acceptance letter from the University of Washington arrives. While Mark is on another hiking trip, Sarah moves out, his only contact a monthly check. In Seattle, work, graduate classes, motherhood and preparations for a return trip to West Africa for her dissertation in ethnomusicology...
13) Roll on Sugaree
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Love, mystery, and a con man youll never forget Roll Along Sugaree is the story of a farm community fighting for survival when a nearby town wants the creek that is the heart and soul of the community. However, the story is far more than that: A couple falls in love and the romance is shaken by police raids, mistaken intentions and a secret map.
14) The Retreat
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Belinda has been looking forward to first a vacation then moving out of the wedding planning business to something more fulfilling like arranging business events. She gets the break she has been waiting for but at the wrong time as her boss comes to her only hours before she is to leave on a much needed vacation asking for her to be in on a meeting the following day. Belinda agrees to go to the meeting but negotiates with her stingy boss for an addition...
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The events in this book each and every one of us have gone, are going, or will go through at least one of these hardships in a lifetime. Maybe right at this moment you know someone who has or is going through one of these events. To some these events are small; they've gotten past them with no problem or interruption in their lives. Yet on the other hand, there are those who just cannot handle any kind of crisis in their lives. You know them; they...
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Even as a child, Leta Dolphy's mother hated her because she looked like her mother-in-law. One day Leta is ousted and her Aunt Julia took her in. Years went by, Rosalind; Leta's sister pretended she was just visiting when she left her son with Leta, who loved him immediately. Rosalind's husband, Theodore Thomas Edmonton III, ignorant of her pregnancy, had divorced her. She returned to sell him his son for half a million dollars. Meeting Leta,...
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Jenna is a very lonely lady who lives in Dallas. She has no significant other and her family is in another state. Her only friend in the world is her loyal cat, Cesare. Shes about to be laid off from her job and things are looking pretty bad for her. Until she meets Mr. Right at her favorite eating place. They fall for each other and suddenly Jenna has a more positive outlook on life. The romance grows as the plot thickens with a very special ending....
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After many years, Lori Templeton thought she had reached the point where she could talk about that Christmas Eve. But then, in walked someone who had caused her so much pain. Now she would have to run again, but Sheriff Calhoun let her know that her running days were over.
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Carrie is a courageous blue-eyed blonde. She is the survivor of a failed marriage and the doting mother of two children: five year old Timmy and four year old Tia. She is a devoted friend to Jill Matthews, a divorced mother of three and her next door neighbor. Jill cajoles her into attending a party where she meets Spencer Nichols: a charming, attractive newspaper reporter with political aspirations. Carrie, a nurses aide who aspires to attend nursing...
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The first day of school was today. There were several new people that came to some of our classes. There is this really cute new guy. I'm not sure what his name is but Jessica and I totally want to find out more about him. Jessica thinks he likes me because he smiled at me in English class. He sits in front of me and Jessica. I hope he likes me...
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