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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 ...

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 ...

Pain and heartbreak linger in Renee Lawson’s soul even as she escapes to the Ozark mountains to act as one of the area’s cave guides. She is as determined to remain single as she is to stay away from her home state of New York, where gut-stabbing memories lie. Then Kirk Bedlow comes along. Handsome, confident, and strong, he immediately catches Renee’s attention – much to her dismay. She successfully avoids him like the plague until she meets the little girl with Down’s Syndrome in Kirk’s custody, Corrina, and the two become instant friends. Still, Renee is hesitant to visit her...

**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 ...

Rosa Marima is confused, distraught…and running away. Convinced she’s wasted the past twenty years of not only her life, but that of her husband, the nearing-sixty-year-old woman announces that she needs time away from the struggling motel that she and her husband, George, run together. He believes she’s angry that he withheld the truth about the financial situation of the business. But her angst runs much deeper, to a painful time in her past she thought she’d finally released, but which has come back to haunt her. While at her retreat in a cabin in the mountains over four hours ...

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. *** All Rachel Polowsky wants is to lead a quiet life, making a moderate income from her online business based on...

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 ...

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. ...

The perfect novel for health nuts and health nut wannabes... He is one of the head cheeses at the regional headquarters for a food conglomerate. She's a mom on a mission, trying to figure out why her daughter, along with a disturbing number of other children, have fallen desperately ill after eating school cafeteria food. He wants to help, but if he reveals who he really is, all will be lost... ************* The last thing any parent wants to receive is a phone call telling them that their child has fallen seriously ill from an unknown cause. When the child is an only child and ends up in a...

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 ...

What if I told you there's a way to live completely stress-free...without changing a single other thing about your life? There is. It all boils down to becoming aware of negative thoughts and emotions, realizing that they are not supposed to be a part of you, and learning a simple technique that grows easier and more effective with time and practice. In this book, I get to the root of all negative emotions, then explain, from a Biblical perspective, how to keep them at bay. But you don't have to believe in the Bible to benefit from the technique. If you want to reduce stress and anxiety, if...

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...

Want to grow your own food, but think you don’t have enough time, energy or space? How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind (Formerly titled Weird Gardening): will bust the myths that vegetable gardening requires tons of space, time and labor. This book, written by an experienced urban gardener, shows you step by step how to start a vegetable garden, from building rich beds to preserving your harvest. In it, you will learn: how to build a new, nutrient-rich bed from scratch at zero cost; the most effective non-chemical methods for dealing with pests; the best way to start your ...

Beth Hanlon is running out of time. If she doesn’t get to the Tulsa airport before the winter storm hits, she will be trapped. And probably found. She might have made it, had it not been for a deer running across the road in front of her car in the middle of the night… Matthew Anderson lives a quiet life on his parents’ rural southeast Oklahoma property, with a plan to finally be on his own in a couple of years, making a living off his own homestead. But when he encounters an overturned vehicle on the road, his plans are shaken to the core when he cannot shake his attraction to Beth. ...

Paul Court is everything Erin Halley wants in a man. So she thinks as she partners with him to start her first home-based business. At the very least, she knows that he is going to help her to be able to quit her teaching job in less than a year. Rodney Lofton has been quietly watching Erin for the past year and a half, and when he finally meets her, knows that God has finally brought him his soulmate. But Erin has eyes only for Paul…and her promised growing bank account. When things turn out to be very different than they had seemed, Erin’s disillusionment and heartbreak threaten even ...

A heart-wrenching nightmare. A frustrating recurring dream. A dim hope that seems impossible... ********* Jen has avoided romantic relationships for twenty years, knowing that getting into one would be a constant reminder of her shattered dreams. Tommy is Jen's secret admirer...but the ghosts from his past tell him he could never be good enough for her. However, when an incident at the Phoenix business conference where Jen is teaching drives them together, they soon become entangled in a journey full of mystery and suspense as Jen realizes she's being stalked. The harassment continues and ...

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 ...

**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 ...

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 ...

A woman who will protect her young brother at any cost… ...The man determined to win her heart… ...And the fathers whose shadows threaten them all… ********** Twenty-seven year old Talia Lovejoy trusts no one. She can’t, because she never knows who might be working for the father of her six-year-old half-brother, a father in name only, because his intent toward his son is pure malice. But when the keyboardist for a famous rock band, Tiger O’Keefe, sees her signing to worship songs on a DVD, he’s determined to seek her out – even though it means entering a religious fellowship,...