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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 ...

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...

*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...

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 ...

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?

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.

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. ...

* 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?

*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 ...

*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 ...

By the end of the first day at her new job, Collette Bellamont believes she must be the world’s worst social worker. The graduate admissions counselor tried to tell her she wouldn't survive the rigors of the job. Now her coworkers are acting like they can't stand her, and her parents had never wanted her to pursue a social work career in the first place. Unfortunately she's required to fulfill her one-year contract or she has to repay the university the cost of her full tuition, which is more than she's making at the agency this year. Enter sexy marriage and family therapist Mark Wilcox, ...

Missy is pregnant with her first child. Her finances are a train wreck and her marriage is rocky. Her son soon arrives and things get more complicated. This is the fourth book in a series of novellas and the conclusion to Missy's journey.

Melissa "Missy" Houghton is on a quest for true love, but she's looking in all the wrong places. She abandons her favorite activities in her pursuit of something better. Something that will give her life significance. Something that will bring her hope. When her first boyfriend turns out to be a huge disappointment, she opens her life to more possibilities, only they aren't any better. In fact, Missy finds herself trapped in a situation that skews her view of people, and shreds her ability to trust. The resulting pain doesn't inhibit her search, but it may taint her choices and ultimately ...

Missy Houghton hopes to defy the odds while marrying young, but ends up with a failed marriage when Chuck breaks her heart once again. In the midst of her divorce she loses her father to cancer, and now everything in her life feels broken. At her lowest point she meets Frank, a Christian man at her church, and he restores some of the faith she had lost in herself. Though reluctant to begin another relationship, they become close friends and she decides to give love one last chance. Soon drama with Franks's ex overwhelms her and she regrets committing her heart to another man. At the same ...

While attending a private Christian high school in San Francisco, Missy Houghton thought she'd finally found true love. When she caught her boyfriend Chuck cheating on her, she called it quits and moved back to New York to live with her parents.She enrolled in college and her life started looking more normal and less like a train wreck. It didn't take long for her ex to find her again and convince her that he'd changed. To prove his sincerity he hopped on a bus and traveled across the country to resume their relationship. Would Chuck prove himself capable of true change, or would she regret...

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.

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 ...