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Pearl in the Sand, Sampler
Tessa Afshar - 2013
Pearl in the Sand tells Rahab's untold story. Rahab lives in a wall; her house is built into the defensive walls of the City of Jericho. Other walls surround her as well-walls of fear, rejection, and unworthiness. A woman with a wrecked past; a man of success, of faith...of pride. A marriage only God would conceive! Through the heartaches of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another's worth and find healing in God.
Her Kind-Hearted Billionaire
Juliette Duncan
When he stops by his local church on his way home one night, he hears about an organization in Bangkok that intrigues him, and he decides to take a month off work to volunteer.Three weeks before her wedding, Phoebe Halliday receives the news no one ever wants to hear… her fiancé, Reed Fisher, has been killed in a car accident. Ten months later, she’s still grieving and plagued by memories, so when her best friend suggests she takes time off work to accompany her on a three-month trip to South-East Asia, Phoebe jumps at it.But the trip Holly has in mind is more than just a holiday. Her passion for helping others takes them to a mission in Bangkok where young girls and boys caught up in sex-trafficking are rescued and rehabilitated.When Nick and Phoebe meet, she has no idea who Nick is, and she fights her growing affection for him as she feels she’s being disloyal to Reed’s memory.Nick soon realizes that even though he’s drawn to Phoebe, unless he shares her faith, they have no future other than friendship. But he won’t make a fake commitment - not even to snag the girl of his dreams.Can Phoebe let go of Reed and open her heart to new love, and can Nicholas open his heart to God and find not only new life, but a love he never dreamed existed?
The Kind-Hearted Billionaire is Book 1 in The Billionaires with Heart Christian Romance Series, a series of stand-alone books that are both God honoring and entertaining. Get your copy now, enjoy and be blessed!
Her Second Chance Forever Groom
Lorana Hoopes - 2019
The second chance she's not sure if she wants.
Emmitt Brown’s demons are even bigger than he is, and as a defensive lineman for the San Antonio Rebels, that’s something. When DJ Madden tasks his defensive line to go home for Christmas and get rid of their biggest past regret, Emmit finds himself returning to the small town he grew up in to find the woman he never should have left. Too bad she hates him and tells him to go away. Mia Carter can’t believe Emmitt Brown is back in town. She does not need this right now. Especially since he’s been the ghost who won’t leave her conscience alone for the past five years and especially since she recently lost her husband. But when the pro football player steps up and offers to help her son fight cancer, she finds herself reluctantly agreeing. Now they have to make a choice; dig into the past and let the truth bring them together, or lose the Christmas miracle right in front of them.
Passages
Kris Michaels - 2019
Life is a transition from one minute to the next. Moments end, lives change, and the ways and loves of the past fade into memories. Join the members of the King and Marshall family as they find their way forward. Passages is a Kings of Guardian Novella. Please note: THERE IS NO BACKSTORY INCLUDED IN THIS NOVELLA. This novella is not for you if you haven't read the previous books in this series. You will not understand the characters or the dynamics. If you have not read all the Kings of Guardian, Guardian Shadow World and Gabriel's story starting the Guardian Defender series, please consider not buying this story.
An Amish Spring
Sarah Price - 2015
While she’s attended youth gatherings and singings in the past, something feels just a little bit different now. As the eldest child, she has a lot of responsibilities, especially with her aging grandparents living in the smaller house attached to the Riehls’ farmhouse and with Drusilla's mother expecting a baby soon. Follow the story of this young Amish woman as she comes of age in the springtime of her life, balancing her commitment to faith, family, and friends. The Amish Seasons Series, a four-part series, follows the story of Drusilla Riehl as she passes through the seasons of life. The first of a four book series, An Amish Spring introduces readers to the Riehl family and their Amish community, both Amish and Mennonite, and will be sure to delight as you learn more about the Amish religion and culture from Sarah Price, one of the leading bestselling authors of Amish Christian fiction who bases her stories and books on authentic experience growing up Mennonite and living among the Amish. Approximately 110 pages
Knight: Alpha Force Elite 7
Mazzy King - 2020
He loved her, she loved him, and all was right with the world.But then he went to war, and the terrible things he saw and did threatened to destroy him. Threatened to drown him. And before he could slip under the water, he released his love so she could have a better life.Without him. Without the poison inside him.The problem?He’s never stopped loving her, and he can’t let her go. He can’t live without her.She's his happily ever after. He needs her forgiveness.But the young knight has no idea if she can forgive him…or will.DevinI've loved Alexander Knight since he was a young sailor in the Navy.When he became a SEAL, no one was prouder than me.I knew the sacrifice that comes with loving a man in the military. And I was proud to do my duty.But when he came back from Afghanistan three years ago, he wasn't the same.I was prepared to love him back to health. To let him know I would keep him safe from the nightmares, the pain.But he pushed me away.I've never been able to go far from Alex, and when I took over the military bar near the base, it was torture to see him every day.But I have to stay close, have to make sure he's all right.Even if looking at the love of my life who's no longer mine destroys me.My promise to you: No cheating. No cliffhangers. Guaranteed HEA.
Crossing the Deep
Kelly Martin - 2012
Four days later, injured and scared, Rachel prays to just make it home alive.Asher Jenkins, fellow hiker and handsome skeptic who is only on the hike so he doesn’t have to go home and face his abusive ‘uncle’, finds Rachel in the woods and tries to get her back to Deep Creek Trail. A small hole hidden under the fall leaves causes her ankle to twist and forces Asher to leave her to get help. As night falls, he comes back, unable to find the right trail.As hours stretch into days, an unexpected rainstorm bears down the mountain, flooding Deep Creek and cutting off their way home. Rachel puts all of her faith in God to save them. Asher thinks believing in God is a waste of time and does what he can to prove to Rachel that He doesn’t exist.
Apprentice Father
Irene Hannon - 2009
This commitment-phobe substitute dad needs help, and he needs it fast! Nanny Cate Shepard comes to his rescue just in the nick of time. Cate is no stranger to tragedy, and her deep, abiding faith has led her through her darkest days. With God's help, her kindness and nurturing can heal the children...but what about Clay? Will this father in the making abandon his lone-wolf ways to give Cate and the children the forever family they deserve?
Protecting Freedom
Jen Talty - 2020
However, she’d paid her debt to society and all she wanted to do was ease back into the community, get a job, and live a quiet life without drawing any attention to herself.
She’d managed to turn her life around and even found herself a boyfriend. A good man. A man she could love.
Only, it seemed fate had other ideas for her and now she has to choose between the past and the future.
Parker “Baby” Roman is tired of playing the field. He might be young, but he’s ready to settle down and have a family and he has his sights set on the sexy, but aloof hostess of his favorite local water hole.
But Baby is ill-prepared to find out the woman of his dreams is a convicted felon and being with her could ruin his career. However, he’ll have to set all that aside when Katina’s life is on the line. He’ll do what it takes, but then he’ll have to let her go.
Or will he do what is in his heart?
This Fine Life
Eva Marie Everson - 2010
When she returns to her privileged life at home, she isn't sure where life will take her. More schooling? A job? Marriage? Nothing feels right. How could she know that she would find the answer waiting for her in the narrow stairwell of her father's apparel factory, exactly between the third and fourth floors?In this unique and tender romance, popular author Eva Marie Everson takes you on a journey through the heart of a young woman bound for the unknown. Discover the joys of new love, the perseverance of deep friendship, and the gift of forgiveness that comes from a truly fine life.
Queen of the Waves
Janice Thompson - 2012
Tessa Yarborough hails from a poor corner of London but has been granted the opportunity of a lifetime--a ticket to sail to America aboard a famed vessel. But there's a catch: she must assume Jacqueline's identity. For the first time in her life, Tessa stays in luxurious quarters, dresses in elegant gowns, and dines with prestigious people. Then a wealthy American man takes an interest in her, and Tessa struggles to keep up the ruse as she begins falling for him. When tragedy strikes, the game is up, and two women's lives are forever changed.
Dinner with a Prince
Carol Moncado - 2020
He doesn’t want to be king.She doesn’t want to be a princess.He doesn’t have a choice.She does.Princes of New SargassoBook 1Prince Gideon of New Sargasso is used to people deferring to him.He’s even had supermodels offer to have his babies - quite a sacrifice for someone who makes their living in bikinis.So when he walks into a local Aussie-inspired café to find Karsen Robertson laughing to the pointof tears at the idea, he’s a little shocked.Then she makes him pay for his food.No one does that.But nothing and no one has intrigued him quite like the blue-eyed beauty who has nothing butsnark for him.Of course he’s going to ask her out.And, if he can keep the paparazzi and tabloids away long enough, finagle a way to make her aprincess.But if she’s not sure about the princess thing, how would she feel about one day becomingqueen?First dinner with a prince.Then a crown.If she doesn’t run screaming first.
No Safe Place
H.L. Wegley - 2018
But Matt returns with an assassin on his trail. When he encounters a young woman with secrets, a woman he is drawn to and who needs him, he must choose between helping her or endangering her.Miranda (Randi) Richards, a young meteorologist, takes a job in a remote area near the Olympic National Park to nurse her wounds after her parents brutally disowned her when she converted to Christianity at college. When Randi, a world-class, middle-distance runner literally runs into Matt on a park trail, she believes she's found someone who can help heal her heart. But she learns Matt has secrets that threaten both her heart and her life. No Safe Place is an action-filled, romantic-suspense story that races from the scenic beaches of the Olympic National Park to the beauty of Lake Chelan in Central Washington State, a story of courage, honor, faith and love.
The Hard Target
M.M. Rose - 2019
Not get scared out of my wits by this man mountain. Hot as hell. Hard as steel. Burning eyes that melt my...you know. Who cares what my body thinks? I need him gone. End of. But there's one problem. A boat load of bad guys are after me. Mr Snarlycocks here is my only protection. His solution? To hide in his house in the mountains. No way. No how. Not till hell enters a new glacial age. But what choice do I have? Especially when he pins me with that thousand watt gaze in his rock hard grey eyes... RICHTER I came for vengeance. Not to find salvation. But the instant those wide eyes fall on me, I'm held captive. Damn, I should know better. My tattoos are made of bullet scars. She's the sweet flower of innocence. We mix like oil and water. But no woman has made me feel the way she does. She's the cool fire in my night sky. My only, lonely light in the dark heavens. I'll die before they hurt an inch of her soul. Then I'll have to let her go. Even if my heart crumbles like star dust... From author MM Rose, comes the debut novel of a new romantic suspense series loaded with a swoon storm of alpha heroes and deep, sexy plot twists to keep you turning pages well into the night! Wow, just wow, you got to read this! - ARC reviewer I love the characters! Each have their own issues, and love how it comes together at the end! - Reviewer I read a lot of romance books. MM Rose has just joined the ranks of my favorite author! - Beta Reader
The Reluctant Groom
Kimberly Rose Johnson - 2018
Neither desires a marriage of convenience, but when Katie blurts the first thing that comes to her mind Ray can’t dismiss her offer of marriage. It would solve all his problems except for one thing—they aren’t in love. Can these two friends team up for the greater good and perhaps find love along the way, or are their expectations impossible?