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~ Where taking the higher road can sanctify the journey~Paisley St. James discovers Brace Cordan, the charismatic leader of the Re-Occupy movement, has been left behind to fend for himself at the wildlife park where she works in Pawnee Rock, Kansas. Sympathetic to include him in the community, she gives him a job tending the lorikeets, where he devises a gymnastics act that covers him with avian attention. When Brace lends his marketing expertise to increase daily attendance and passes romantic glances her way, small town living starts looking up. Betrayal strikes the park, leaving a tag-team staff shored up by nomadic Re-Occupy members to run the Shakespeare event. An unbelievable offer emerges from the show when the post of a wacky performance goes viral on social media, but Brace allows his financial burden to overshadow any hope for her inclusion.Paisley will have to utter the words no woman should have to say, but will that sacrifice be enough to convince Brace? The path ahead becomes the higher road when it starts on a towering rock.

SALVAGING DOCTOR JUNK~Where love salvages two hearts on the ledge of loneliness~Delayne Davidson has a knack for flushing secretive birds from their cover, but when she goes into the Ozark backwoods to buy a puppy, she flushes out a handsome young veterinarian as a bonus. Try as he might, Kemp Junkowski just can't seem to gain business at his fledgling animal clinic in Harrison, Arkansas, park headquarters for the picturesque Buffalo National River. As they bond over a mutual love of animals and time spent on the river, Delayne suggests inventive ways to strengthen his business ties. When evidence of vehicle tampering unfolds right in the department's motor pool, trouble starts showing up in unexpected places. Kemp tastes success while subbing for an ailing vet at a non-stop animal clinic, so how can he return to an empty appointment schedule?Delayne helps Kemp step beyond his fear of ledges, but can she come up with a strategy to keep his clinic doors open?Trepidation may toe the ledge, but true love only lands after a leap of faith.~Because when you're on the ledge of desperation, the only lifeline is love~

~Where the right heart connection can lift the heavy spirit~Stationed at the locks leading to Lake Okeechobee, Florida, Fallon McKenzie admires the heroic rescue of a disabled boater as the lock rises with floodwater. In the right place at the right time, Bait Crate shop owner Court Reynolds offers to take Fallon around to her lake checkpoints after the surplus boat is docked, which leads to a sunset dinner invitation. Court's lifelong ties in his coastal community of Port Salerno start to fray with one neglect-driven catastrophe after another. Fallon lures Court inland with the suggestion of expanding business to include corporate fishing frolics at her horse ranch in Loxahatchee. Despite promising success, a deep wound cuts at the family's wellness. Fallon seizes the moment to save Court, but trouble in uniform lurks ahead, right when her guard is down.Fallon's love lifts Court with her lyrical boatman's renderings,but can he rally to play the hero's part one more time?A lake lends tranquility only when the heart can be lifted up above the mounting floodwaters.

~Where only the bond of love can make redemption possible~Lacey Woodhouse arrives at River Ranch to deliver the bank's notice of default for unmade mortgage payments but plunges into a horse trough and meets the struggling owner, rancher Wray Benson, up close and personal. When a bouquet of field daisies finds its way to her car windshield weeks later, she decides to throw caution-and conflict of interest-to the wind. Time in the country charms Lacey and she learns of Wray's support of an ailing family member which softens her heart. Soon destruction of his perimeter fence during the foreclosure countdown hints of trouble within her REO unit at the bank. An investigation launches with Lacey at the helm, but she has problems navigating the sole condition mandated by the bank president-she can't see Wray until the foreclosure process concludes. As the dreaded foreclosure clock ticks down, will Lacey be able to reach out to downtrodden Wray and reconnect heart-to-heart?A troubled undercurrent runs through the flower-strewn meadow of their relationship, one that the redemptive river of love must overcome.

~Where honest advocacy justifies an investment of the heart~Marin Evans finagles her way into a rowboat with a temperamental sound-side resident who's about to have his salty heritage crumble beneath him on the Outer Banks. Tyde Fearing lowers his guard to give the insistent land use planner her interview, but doesn't expect to enjoy her company as the threat of condemnation for the historic Fearing cottage makes his future seem bleak. Marin goes into advocacy mode when the historical society and recreation department clash for use of the Fearing land donation. An outbuilding with a shadowy past stands to further condemn the Fearing family-or will the shed become a plank of justification when the truth is revealed? All hope falls to ashes when the Fearing cottage is taken by an act of nature, plunging Tyde into despair. Marin's land use plan is the only life raft that will save him-and she employs a flotilla of creative reinforcements to pull it off at the grand opening of Fearing Landing.Will the shifting sands of the Graveyard of the Atlantic sink its last authentic waterman?Not when he has an advocate determined to cross the waters of the soundwith a heart that bridges an impossible task with the surety of love.

~Where healing love can lend the power to save~Nurse Cami Walsh meets an interesting man the hard way when she sideswipes cyclist Holt Ellis on his way down Lookout Mountain. Holt survives the collision with shredded hopes of improving his dire state of unemployment, but Cami's tender touch revives the man he longs to be. Cami's son Mitch insists on substituting for Bicycle Man, a local hero who's mysteriously gone missing, but she questions how Holt happens to know the delivery route for food distribution to the area's homeless. When a once-in-a-lifetime job opening emerges for Holt, Cami slips a newspaper clipping into his resume package that links his marketing genius to his anonymous community service. With her dark paternity secret finally disclosed for justice, Cami finds herself plunged into a battle to regain Mitch after he's abducted by his birth father.Will saving Bicycle Man be enough of a back-up plan to restore her little family?Only a bridge of community support can break the threat of the brooding mountains that hem her in-and only love can conquer fear.

A Promise Kept is the story of Janet Willoughby and her struggle to go on living after her husband's sudden death. ("What is life without John?" she asks.) The story follows her grief through its natural process and deals with the many challenges a widow encounters. To complicate matters, an old boyfriend from college re-enters her life. He shares her grief in a way no one else can. Janet is drawn to him but doesn't understand her feelings for him or her responsibility to her late husband.This is a story of one woman's triumph over the ugliness and pain of death and the gradual rebuilding of life.

A dead body.The only member of her neighborhood watch.A killer moves closerStormi Nelson, best-selling romance author, moved into her huge Victorian house in the private community of Oak Meadows Estates. When her agent tells her that her characters are becoming too cardboard and that she needs to get out and mingle with people, she comes up with the idea of a Neighborhood Watch Program. The problem is ... she's the only member.On her first night of patrol, she stumbles over a dead body, meets a hunky detective, who happens to be her neighbor, and clearly frustrated with her, and her mother, sister, niece and nephew arrive to shake up Stormi's peaceful life.As she is immersed ever deeper into the mystery surrounding a neighbor's murder, she decides to change writing tactics and write a romantic mystery based on her experiences. What follows is a frolicking good time as Stormi finds herself the nosiest neighbor of them all. Can she find the killer before she becomes the next victim?

Another fan wants their moment of fame and will do anything to get it.Who will suffer the consequences of Stormi's plan first?After Stormi Nelson's first mystery book hits the NYT Best-Selling List, Stormi begins receiving threatening emails and is stalked by a clichéd person in a trench coat and hat. Her stalkers requests are straightforward; Finish writing her next book quickly, or face the consequences. When nothing Stormi does satisfies this unknown stalker, she and her best friend concoct a plan guaranteed to draw the stalker out of the shadows. While Stormi's boyfriend, Matt, isn't excited about the plan, he knows things must come to an end before the stalker makes good on one of his or her threats.Accidents, threats, and mishaps keep the reader turning the pages in this small town cozy mystery by a best-selling, award-winning author.

On break from her vendor booth selling bittersweet swags at a craft fair, Lolo Henley accidentally witnesses illegal activity down along Atchison's waterfront and runs for her life.Ever short of his dream for ordination at St. Benedicts Abbey, gardener Karch Riley rescues Lolo from an unholy search party.As trouble mounts, Karch discovers veiled threats on the adjoining college campus and teams with law enforcement to protect the innocent. Evidence of illegal gun purchases becomes linked with the abbey's Vicar Copley, Karch's harsh boss. Trouble deepens when human trafficking emerges as the ring's source of funding. Sensitive to the plight of trafficked victims due to a past slight, Karch rallies awareness support from college students who start a prevention movement. Knowing a woman once cost him his ministry aspirations, does he dare trust another woman to salvage it? When the pressure peaks, a battle of savvy maneuvering along the river becomes a matter of life or death.In the heat of pursuit, ordination slips toward a far-off horizon-or can Karch safeguard Lolo and recapture his dreams from oblivion?

~His quest for innovation...Her conquest for endearment~Materials engineer Mason Porter rescues HR director Glori Dawes when a platform collapses under her at the kickoff presentation for Coleman Company's "America Goes Camping" campaign. To return the favor, Glori selects Mason as her camping husband, which launches a filming adventure through three national parks. When admiration kindles a deeper spark, Mason will have to force the issue regarding the ring on her finger that represents her vow with the devious Marketing director in charge of the campaign. Is it phony-or matrimony? Back at work someone sabotages the company's million dollar lantern assembly line. Mason's equipment inspection points to the same dark character, while the aftermath of her shattered engagement places Glori's reputation at risk in a twisted exposé. As Mason digs for the ultimate truth, Glori must confront her childhood allegiances to cling to a love meant to last.Welcome to the dawn of the age of plastics, a state of the art injection mold technology ushering in a lightweight polymer that may leave one forward-thinking engineer heavy-hearted in the end.Set in Wichita, Kansas, headquarters for the world-famous Coleman Company, in spring 1958.

~His quest for quality...Her conquest for a trusting heart~Quality control manager Weston Durand searches out flaws and defects to keep airplanes in top shape, but when a test flight's propeller makes a collision course with the hangar door, he dashes to save upholsterer Myla Templeton from harm. Upping the group's aesthetics, blue-eyed Myla attends his Quality Circle meetings for continuous improvement in the workplace, where her brainstorming efforts contribute the first major improvement-a high-grade line of western-style upholstery. Admiration leads to romance when they celebrate success. While other members catch and spread the innovative vision for betterment, the new jet engines on a prototype aircraft become a pesky gadfly. Weston aids safety manager Duncan Reed, making changes in protocol that safeguard against the powerful engine's accidental ingestion of foreign objects, but sabotage rears its vengeful head, tipping the balance toward harm. Can Myla heed Weston's cautious warning of "poka-yoke" or is she already too aligned in the saboteur's crosshairs to avoid error?Welcome to the false start of the jet age, a touch-and-go maneuver where an errant wrench-in-the-works can topple a vulnerable sky-giant.Set in Wichita, Kansas, the Air Capital of the World, in spring 1953.

A secret threatens to destroy her.Stormi Nelson and her bridesmaids party hard in New Orleans.The only thing marring the bachelorette party is the appearance of Stormi's fiancé, Matt's ex-girlfriend.When Stormi returns home to Arkansas and right into another murder mystery, she's also the recipient of some not so nice gifts: a voodoo doll and a black cat. Refusing to believe in superstition, Stormi continues to dive headfirst into her latest case and comes across her wackiest suspect list yet.What she doesn't expect is the final, life-altering, gift from Matt's ex-girlfriend. A gift that will change both Stormi's and Matt's lives forever.

~ His quest for safety... Her conquest for love~Safety manager Duncan Reed works to flush out an illicit labor union tapping out the oil company's insurance benefits in El Dorado, Kansas. When his path crosses newly widowed Lorna Rae Holmes, their friendship lends her courage to pursue a long-held dream. Lo-Rae Cakes becomes a reality after she moves to prosperous Kansas City. But the harrowing Midwest floods in the summer of 1951 pressure Lorna Rae to evacuate, reuniting her with the compassionate safety manager who has a soft spot for both her cake and her daughter. A cresting flood, a fire held in innocent hands, and a fiendish last attempt by the union leader all threaten to damage the fragile connection between Duncan and Lorna Rae.Safety must return to the oil fields, but what will Duncan place at ultimate risk?

A dead body is found face first in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery.What's a nosy neighbor to do other than hunt down a killer?Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out, and they will kill to make that happen. Stormi is determined to keep her idyllic town the quaint place it's always been.Her neighbors are not what they seem, evil encroaches ever closer, and the little old woman across the street wants nothing more than to run Stormi out of town.

A new neighbor brings Stormi's most challenging mystery yet!Girl's are in danger...Death waits around the corner...When Stormi's nephew asks her to help him stop the abuse to a friend of his, Stormi is more than willing to step in. What she finds is worse than anything she imagined. No amount of research prepared her for a group of men so evil, Stormi must dig deep inside herself and call on God to rescue the man she loves.

Here we go again!Can't Stormi have a simple vacation?After the horrific experience of saving the lives of her niece and fiancé, Stormi Nelson takes the family to a retreat high in the Ozark mountains. It doesn't take long before a dead body in a bubble bath turns the vacation into anything but a pleasant excursion.Forbidden to leave since they are all suspects, Stormi's family spends two weeks in a resort that is anything but relaxing. From horseback riding, bear attacks, and zip-lining, it gets to the point Stormi is afraid to leave her cabin!

Fed up with the good-old-boy treatment at her current job in Emporia, conservation officer Aley Halstead plans a lateral move for more equitable treatment in nearby Council Grove, Kansas. A real hitch in her departure plan, she meets enigmatic Hake Warren, a young lawyer attempting to ranch on a newly-purchased acreage. As her final project, Aley commits to helping the rookie weekend rancher design the best plan for restoring the overworked operation, but when their interests turn more personal, his outlying ranch becomes a romantic midpoint to ease her transition. Living in the new town grows perilous, right when Hake's class action lawsuit work gains momentum. Whether poacher or poltergeist, the unhinging threat turns sinister, and only Hake's knowledge about his property will prove the difference between life or death.Can Aley's lessons on protecting the land come to her rescue in return?Watch Hake push matters to the edge to reconcile her from heartache.

On sabbatical, rodeo entertainer Lyndie Leigh Sessoms strikes out on her quest to find a real life, riding the coattails of a wildfire into Kansas where she rescues trampled rancher Burk Crosby from the ashes. Drawn together in a cascade of heart-wrenching events, they work selflessly to counter damage from the wildfire and resurrect the rural community around Ashland. Small-town kindness combines with widespread generosity in the wake of the fire, but a greedy siphon infiltrates the distribution site, casting a dark shadow of suspicion over the recovery efforts. To salvage their blossoming affection, Burk solidifies the ranchers to force the siphon out of hiding with a trap-but Lyndie never suspects that she's positioned as the bait. A late-arriving warning leaves her nowhere to turn: do not trust anyone in Ashland, Kansas.Based on the true story of the Starbuck fire of 2017 that ravaged western Kansas-and area ranchers who demonstrated vulnerable resiliency in its aftermath.Strength for the day...with eyes on the Almighty.

A former special ops with a missionA crime novelist with a tender heartA town in the midst of evilTaya Trapp has faced danger before, but never like this. Former special ops, she's now on a mission to keep her niece safe from the hands of her abductors. Her only option is to hide out in the middle of the Ozark mountains, where she meets Ryan Boyne, a crime novelist with a tender heart. Together, they must unravel the secrets of Misty Hollow to bring down a man called The Boss, a task that will test them both to their limits.Secrets are revealed as the danger escalates in the small town of Misty Hollow. Can a mild mannered novelist do what it takes to keep Taya and her niece safe or will he lose them forever?

She's eighteen. A visitor to a tornado-stricken town in need of help. Half of the residents think she's a saint. The other half wants her dead. Who is she? Why do people want to kill her?Brother Matt Golding is a store-front preacher in Oakton, the capital of Ohio. He sends a team of his young congregants to assist a friend, Pastor Phillip Mars, in Rallins, Indiana. The small farm community was devastated by a category three tornado. In the aftermath of the storm, Pastor Mars's church burned to the ground.But Collin Walker, the team's youngest member, claims the church burned through arson. How can a barely eighteen-year-old possibly know that?Know it she does. Now someone is afraid of the other small-town secrets she might expose. They are determined to have her injured and sent home. Failing that, they want her killed. What other skills does Walker have? Can they save her? Will they?Come meet Walker in:TWISTED

Would winning a cook in a poker game be a good deal for Luke Tyler, a gold mine owner, especially when the cook is a reluctant, beautiful young gal?LukeWith the charm of a lazy smile, the dark-haired gold mine owner, joins in a poker game. His opponent is the owner of the saloon-café, who has a daughter that prepares the food for his establishment. Luke Tyler's gold mining camp is in desperate need of a good cook. His opponent holds a sure hand to win the big pot, but he doesn't have money to continue. Luke encourages him to put up his daughter as collateral. Confident that he can't lose, he agrees. Unfortunately, his lady luck has ran out.Mary GraceMary Grace Winters is the picture of beauty with the heart of a tiger. She works her fingers to the bone for her pa as housekeeper and cook at his café. When she overhears that she's been put up as collateral for a bet in a poker game, she swears she'll hate her pa for the rest of her life and she'll never be owned by a total stranger.Linda Sealy Knowles weaves a heart-warming story filled with humor, enduring family ties, and romance.

"You want me to be a mail-order bride to a total stranger?"Abby Mills knew she had to leave her home, but to go and live with a total stranger-for life?Sheltered for eighteen years, Abby makes a promise to her dying mother, the madam of The Red Dog Saloon, to leave the only home she had ever known. The saloon wasn't a safe place for a beautiful young girl to live without the protection of her mother. With the help of an old friend of her mama's, Abby finds herself having to make a crucial decision about her future.The offer of a new home with wide-open spaces, fresh air and freedom were too much to resist, but to marry a stranger might be asking the unthinkable.After Mason Waters and his uncle struck it rich in 1851, Mason's uncle opened a bank in San Francisco, but that wasn't the ideal life Mason had in mind. Feeling smothered and unhappy in San Francisco, Mason bought a ranch in northern California. After several years of hard work, Mason had everything he needed and wanted on his ranch-but a wife. After requesting that his uncle choose him a mail-order bride-one who was of good character, hardworking and easy on the eyes, he patiently waited for her arrival.Before his bride-to-be showed up, several men spread indecent rumors about his new bride's past. Uncertain of the truth, upon meeting Abby, Mason made several offensive remarks to her. How and why he would believe those remarks about her, she wasn't sure. But one thing was clear to Abby. Her new husband didn't trust her to be of good character, having believed the lies that she worked upstairs in the Red Dog Saloon.Abby knew the truth, but she wasn't about to force it on him, so she accepted her fate. For better or worse, she was here to stay as his mail-order bride, but would Mason ever fully accept her as his wife?

Have you ever wondered how to survive the storms of life, remain standing afterwards, maybe a little tattered and worn, but still able to feel the peace that surpasses all understanding that God speaks of?This book is about life circumstances that seem destined to destroy us and paralyze us in pain and helplessness. It is about some of my own experiences through which I have been able to see beyond the pain, the fear, the helplessness, the disappointment, and the grief, and still find that peace described in Philippians 4:6-8.We have a choice. We can either look at life through the pain, darkness, and filth of the world and what it has dealt us or we can choose to stay in the peace God calls the "Secret Place", viewing the world and its events through the Stained Glass of His love and peace.

A SHEPHERD WITH A BIG MOUTH.A PRINCE FOR A BEST FRIEND.A GIANT WARRIOR OUT FOR BLOOD.Put these three together and you have one wild ride for a story!Prince Jonathan tells the thrilling events of David and Goliath for a young modern audience with excitement and humor. What does he see? Can he keep his father, King Saul, from becoming jealous of his new best friend? And what happens to the cute little animal that Goliath tosses like a ball across the valley?Find out the answers to these questions and more in Jonathan and the Giant Killer!

One teacher's missing.Another's found dead.Jenny Mitchell and her fellow teachers used to enjoy hiking the trails at Deep Creek, but now they're terrified to go back. Jenny's best friend since childhood vanished without a trace, and Jenny's life changed forever. Not even her faith comforts her now.Ranger Flint Stockman's niece, Cassie, is in Jenny Mitchell's first grade class. Not only does Flint find himself in the middle of a murder investigation, but he soon finds himself falling for Cassie's teacher. That wasn't in his plans, but neither are the bodies the rangers discover as the investigation continues. With one teacher missing and one dead, could Jenny be next?

Boyd Richards has traveled endless paths since the end of the Civil War. His former boss, Shanghai Pierce, sends him to the Kennedy ranch to assist in a cattle drive to Kansas on Chisholm's trail. In the days before leaving on the dusty journey, two very different women intrigue him. Lucy Kennedy, the daughter of his new boss, and Hallie Price, a soiled dove working in the town saloon.Lucy, a spunky reporter, introduces Boyd to the town with an article in the local newspaper. Bitter from losing his wife and son while away at war and preferring to avoid attention, Boyd is none too happy at Lucy's actions and is relieved to leave before he gets to know either woman.The cattle drive yields encounters with many new people and challenges. These events trigger unexpected changes for Hallie Price and Lucy Kennedy. But the journey takes Boyd further than he ever expected to go when he encounters James Hawkins, who opens his heart to the Scriptures and his eyes to the challenges of others.Healing the wounds of the past, Boyd strives to build a new life. What will happen as he travels Trails of Change? SECOND EDITION

Amy Kate Anderson is Southern trouble in high heels.A Fire-A Murder-What's happened to her quiet little town of Pine Lake?Book shop owner, Amy Kate Anderson, thought she was having the worse day ever ... until they wheeled a body out of the coffee shop next door and her friend, Matt Murphy, co-owner of the Beans and Leaves, became the number one suspect for the DA.Can Amy Kate find a way to help her friend and keep her dreams for her bookshop from going up in smoke? Or will the handsome Lieutenant Gabe Cooper have his way and leave Amy Kate fishing for clues among the ashes?In this delightful whodunnit, the people of Pine Lake, Alabama, will welcome you with open arms to their small town, but be careful, mystery, murder, and Amy Kate's trouble magnet lurk around each corner.

He was just in town while his home was being rebuilt, but could he rebuild his broken heart?Dan Harris Thibodeaux is a billionaire in need of a rental after a hurricane destroyed his family home on Silver Spur Ranch. To avoid attention, he keeps his identity hidden while in the small town of Orange Blossom. He's eager to keep a low profile, as he's used to the women he meets being more interested in his money than him as a person. But he has other things to focus on; namely, fulfilling the last wishes of the woman he loved--Lilly.Nikki Davis loves animals--they are true, loyal, and trustworthy. When a hurricane leaves hundreds of animals displaced, she fosters as many as she can in her small bungalow. It's there that she meets her new neighbor, Dan, and finds he too has been displaced. Despite his resistance, she's determined to pull him into the community of her small town. But what secrets is Dan hiding?Award-winning author Bonita Y. McCoy weaves together humor, faith, and romance in this delightful contemporary novel. If you enjoyed the novel Cowboy Walking Away by Jessie Gussman, you'll love Billionaire Cowboy Next Door.