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He’s young, rich, intelligent, tall and ready to settle down. I’m Louisiana thick, curvy, and I’d like to say fine because it fits, and I keep trying to talk myself out of love. And as fate would have it, I’m stuck in his home on Christmas Day. Being an assistant, to Destiny- the owner and lead decorator at Dobrielle's-has good and bad qualities. It's one of Louisiana's largest and most sought after design firms. And I'm leaning but eager for my opportunity to shine. I get big coins, but I’m still only my boss’s assistant. She gives me the job to decorate the office Christmas ...

One moment ruined everything. One child changed it all. One Christmas could bring it back together. She thought she knew what love looked like—until it shattered at a Grambling State football game. Keira was ready to plan forever with her high school sweetheart—until she saw him with someone else. Humiliated and heartbroken, she made a split-second choice she couldn't take back. One hazy night. A stranger with a familiar face. And a baby that would become her entire world. Years later, her daughter falls dangerously ill, and one hospital test flips Keira’s world upside down. The man ...

A charming Louisiana Christmas romance where “home” might be the most magical destination yet. World-traveling holiday blogger Maya Torres is known for her snowy, picture-perfect Christmases—so when her grandmother insists she return to Shreveport, Louisiana, to help with the town’s Cajun Christmas Festival, she’s hesitant. Swapping snow for bayou float parades and gumbo cook-offs wasn’t on her holiday itinerary, and neither was working with her first love, Rhett Beauregard—the hometown football hero who once broke her heart. As Maya navigates small-town holiday traditions ...

The Power Series is a compilation of short stories created to cause awareness and attention to the power that pain, restoration, love, and forgiving has over our lives. The direct affect of each on our lives can lead us to victory or cause us to die in destruction. It is sometimes because of the pain we've experienced, we altar the way we think; it is this thinking that causes us to miss out on true love and can cause us to live our lives unforgiving. When we understand what restoration can do for the life that’s in need of being restored, then and only then do we start to LIVE! There’s...

Christmas is almost here again and I need to slay my pain, but I’m stuck… I don’t care what anyone says, if crap doesn’t try to rock them out of Christian sometimes, they’re lying. Especially, stuff that hits at the Holidays. That hurt cuts different. It’s been a fight to remember what’s in me, while operating with a heart, still lingering in the space and place where it happened. As quiet as it’s kept, I’m holding on to the one I can’t have, but letting go of the one I need most…God. Then comes Major Hollands mending me like a quilt and using fragments and scraps to ...

When things are about to get better, they get worse. Hope has moved to Louisiana, and not only is she excited about the move, but she's also happy to now be in the Booth/Jackson/Kimbrel family. The only thing Hope was missing was a love to call her own, but after Selena and Damon decided to call off their wedding, looks like Hope got her perfect chance at love. Damon has chosen Hope, and Hope has excepted all that he's willing to offer. With her hopes and dreams set in wish mode, she's patiently awaiting the day Damon proposes to her. With things moving along quite well, Damon is now ...

Is anything truly beyond redemption, beyond the hope of repair, restoration, or renewal? Absolutely not! Jacqueline Vance might beg to differ, as her life spirals out of control. In her thirties, navigating the complexities of marriage and the ache of childlessness, she finds herself at the heart of a murder mystery in Southern Hills. Amidst the darkest betrayal, she discovers that no one, not even her occasional ally Yolanda, is beyond God's reach for redemption. Through this ordeal, Jacqueline learns to confront her current struggles with resilience, eyeing the possibility of what lies ...

Who sleeps or lusts after a pastor? And who on earths wants to be stuck in the shadow of a man, wearing a big hat and sitting in a permanent front row seat where everyone is watching you? Not Destiny! Roderick Prince Strong is just as handsome as he is fine, but I’m just not sure if being a first lady is a part of my destiny. I know that my journey is marked by love and destined by God, but I still have not accepted the fact that I now own, Faith Temple Cathedral…a church. But just as I’m finally coming to grips with my assignment and things are coming together after the death...

Jasmine Booth has fallen in love over the Christmas holiday to Vance Kimbrel Jr. and neither of them are willing to let the other go their separate ways. If you were born in a pentecostal, Baptist, or protestant home, you know the cardinal rule when it comes to living with someone with whom you have not married. It’s the imaginary eleventh commandment…Thou Shalt Not Shack, and both Jasmine and Vance have decided to break the rules. In The Right Choice, Jasmine Booth, the one and only daughter of Jasper Sr. and Jessica Booth, has made a choice that has made neither of her parents proud. ...

Grief stole her faith. Love might help her find it again. Jenae Jonesby has spent a year running—from God, from love, and from the pain of losing her mother on Easter Sunday. The only thing keeping her grounded is her work at Brights Marketing, where she has carved out a career fueled by ambition and creativity. But when Aspen Haywood, the firm's owner, steps into leadership, her carefully built world begins to crack. Aspen has already faced death and won. Surviving cancer renewed his faith, and now he’s determined to live life with purpose. His return to Brights Marketing brings an ...

The small town of Keatchie, Louisiana is growing and the town's folks are falling in love and learning to live by faith. In each of these books, you'll meet members of the Faltime Baptist Church and get a peek into their lives. About: INTENSE She’s been sidelined. And she’s wanting love just as much as me. I feel her… The pain of her past, The fear of letting another person in, And as much as I should be stuck, especially after what I witnessed, I find myself wondering about her story. I understand… The woman I wanted to love is too broken to let anyone in. She was bruised and bent ...

When Damion Carter returns home to Louisiana for the first time in over a decade, he’s bracing for dust, a will, and maybe a ghost. What he doesn’t expect is a man—Dexter—lounging in his late father’s recliner, watching Saints highlights, and baking a caramel cake that smells like heaven. And then the bomb drops: Their father had two families, born only six days apart. Two mothers. Two sons. One long‑buried trail of secrets. Dexter, a proud Louisiana baker, wants nothing to do with his California brother from his father’s snobby side. Damion, with his swanky L.A. car service, ...

Kane Jackson Booth is in love with Veronica Kimbrel and neither of them desire to venture into forbidden territories but things are becoming a bit more heated than either of them can handle. So in making what she feels is a right suggestion, Kane makes a wrong decision that could cost them their forever after. Right when things are shaking and seemingly cracking, Selena is in need of help and Veronica uses this opportunity to leave Kane and all of their problems behind her. She soon finds out that running away doesn’t always solve the problem, or make things right but in the school of ...

Like most couples, they experienced their share of pain, especially when it comes to marriage. Their marriage was almost destroyed by her acts of jealousy, and a jealous rage that caused him to pack up and leave. After the pain of Dean leaving is almost too much for them both to bear, they decide to allow God to give them a marital rebirth and start again.

Sixteen-year-old Lyric Daniels has big dreams of becoming a singer-songwriter. Her vibrant spirit and talent are undeniable, but her biggest obstacle isn't the outside world—it's her overprotective mother, Serenity Daniels. A single mother who has spent her life shielding Lyric from the struggles she endured growing up, Serenity is a force to be reckoned with. Her mantra is simple: “Anyone who wants to harm my baby has gotta go through me.” When Lyric is offered the opportunity of a lifetime—a chance to perform in a prestigious showcase in New York City—Serenity's protective ...

Evonta's Revenge is the thrilling first installment of the Jacobs Family Novels, christian murder mysteries and suspense stories. "Vengeance is mine," said the Lord, but Evonta is determined to help Him in all matters concerning her and the Jacobs family. Moving by her own will and stopping at nothing to get those responsible for her twin brothers death, she becomes an unstoppable force that even the CIA cannot stop. Even though some view her as an unmerciful killer, she believes in an all-powerful God who simply--needs her help to free the world from the likes of those who do not care ...

Freedom isn’t just something you celebrate—it’s something you choose. After losing his brother Bradford, Martin Stynes had one mission: survive the grief and make sense of the life left behind. Love wasn’t even a consideration—until Shatora Horton, the no-nonsense Cajun queen with a heart as big as Louisiana, kept showing up with sweet tea, sass, and a kind of loyalty he didn’t know he still needed. Shatora’s whole life was built on helping others heal, but losing everyone she loved taught her to keep her own heart off-limits. Owning land, fortune, and wisdom didn’t stop ...

Everyone knows the hardest thing to do is stay in the place where you’ve been hurt the most. So Jade ran. She left Louisiana behind, hoping distance would heal a heart shattered by loss and longing. But no matter how far she goes, pieces of her heart still live in the place she tried to forget. Jasper Booth Jr. has never stopped loving Jade—but he’s done waiting. Years ago, she walked away without looking back. Now, he’s moving on with his life… until a letter from an attorney gives him one last chance to bring her home, just in time for Christmas. Back in Shreveport, plans are ...

Kane and Veronica’s wedding became the perfect backdrop for the next Faith Temple Cathedral wedding, as Damon proposed to Selena. Although it felt right from the beginning, things are progressing, and Selena is starting to feel something pricking about her response. Newly married Veronica Booth and her sister-in-love, Jasmine Kimbrel, have decided to throw an exclusive couples event for all the couples of Faith Temple Cathedral who were instrumental in their life and wedding. And although there are a few singles in attendance, most of them are engaged or have someone they’ve labeled as ...

“Some hearts don’t break—they bend back toward the ones worth fighting for.” Edlina: I came back to Grand Cane to settle Mama’s affairs— not to run straight into the man who still makes my heart buck like a wild horse. Shannon Smith is all swagger and silence, the kind of man who forgot how to love but never how to leave a mark. I didn’t survive eight-seconds on bulls just to fall for the same mistake twice. But here I am, wondering if I ever should’ve left. Shannon Smith I buried love years ago, right alongside the softer parts of me. Then Edlina came back—grit, grace, ...