So when her only remaining family withdraw their offer for her to spend Christmas with them, she won’t let it get her down. It looks as if she’ll be spending the festive season alone, until handsome physician Hugo Bentinck arrives on her doorstep on Christmas Eve and whisks her into his world! And Theodosia’s about to find that his love for her is for Christmas — and forever.

    The only catch is that she has to sail one of the yachts around Cape Horn before six months is up. Jesse Titus needs to rent a boat for a race around Cape Horn. Though she is terrified of water, Shelby faces her fear and forces Jesse to take her along on the trip. As she learns to face her fears, Shelby learns to accept herself as God made her and to accept the love Jesse offers.

     #2:A Heart’s Obsession WillSarah’s journey lead her to the one man she knows she can trust? #3:A Heart’s Danger Onthe brink of war with the Sioux, Sarah risks everything to expose the betrayalthreatening the man she loves. #4:A Heart’s Betrayal Emmiefinds shelter in the arms of a soldier, but her secret could drive them apart. #5:A Heart’s Promise Arival threatens Emmie’s budding romance with Isaac. #6:A Heart’s Home ThisChristmas, a tragic loss at Fort Laramie ushers in hope and healing.

    Someday technology may enable us to record not only our appearance and voices but everything we know, feel, fear, and love at the moment the shutter clicks. Then our wedding mementos, like Anne and Ben’s in this story, take on a life of their own in a world where love may be eternal, but the world is not. Till deletion do us part . . .This novella won the Sturgeon Award for best short science fiction.“It is one of the best SF stories ever written.” —John Clute, Sci fi Weekly"The Wedding Album" (1999), one of the stories that solidified his reputation as a writer to watch, is a head-twisting tale about virtual realities and bandwidth scarcity, but the reason the story has legs lies in the couple at the centre of the narrative: a virtual simulation of a pair of newlyweds trapped in a small slice of time and memory like human flies in digital amber. Marusek knows human drama, and writes it so subtly you hardly notice it’s centre stage the whole time, right up until he plucks your heart out.” —Paul Raven, Strange Horizons“In ‘The Wedding Album,’ . . . [Marusek] fashions an ominous and surprisingly moving tale about a bride and groom who repeatedly discover, forget and rediscover that they are merely computer-generated re-creations of a flesh-and- blood newlywed couple, fated to watch as their living counterparts, their marriage and civilization itself decay over the centuries.” —Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Book Review

    However, characters do reoccur, off center stage as it were, and their stories do follow a sequence."

    Golden Kimball was known as the Swearing Apostle. Raised as a cowboy, he peppered his sermons with frontier wit and wisdom. James Kimball has collected hundreds of his famous great-uncle's stories in these two warmly affection volumes.

    She never let her weight stop her from achieving what she went after, and that included going after the man of her dreams, Ron Mitchum. Innocent Wendy soon finds that men sometimes aren’t what they appear. You never know what’s concealed in someone’s past.Good-looking Chad Farrell seems like an appropriate choice for a mate, but Wendy finds she’s not ready to settle down after her stint on America’s Most Wanted. She tries again at finding a new ‘experience’ and once again finds herself in hot water with Billy Don Bone, a lanky Texan con-man. Chad, for a second time, finds himself coming to her rescue.Will Wendy wake up to the fact she has a ‘hero’ right under her nose? Or continue to be a bum magnet and deal with the distressing consequences?