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Her Undying Faith
Joy Ohagwu - 2019
Highly recommended."
All Sharon Parsons wanted was a chance to be with the man she loved.But her Mom, Stella Heart, disapproved of their relationship due to his perceived character.And, he didn't share her Christian faith.Feeling stuck in the middle, and desperate for some freedom, her patience was running out.Then Sharon made an aggressive choice to bridge the gap, but her plan not only backfired, it ruined her future.When circumstances forced them apart, she gave up on any chance of redemption, both for his soul and of their love. Little did she know that the moment she gave up, God picked up her broken pieces and began writing a new story that even she could not have predicted. Grab HER UNDYING FAITH - Book 1 of the New Beginnings Christian Inspirational fiction series today!
HER UNDYING FAITH is 117,000 words long, and is Book One of a brand new Christian Inspirational Series. Don't miss out on the exclusive FREE prequel, and an exclusive FREE novella while the offer lasts. The link is inside. HIS CHANGED LIFE - Book 2 is also available. Grab it with this ASIN - B07NSCFNYG
The NEW BEGINNINGS Christian Inspirational Fiction Series is a spin off of 3 series :
-The Pleasant Hearts Series, -The After Series, -and The Pete Zendel series. If you have not read them, please go to the author page and start there to better understand this series. Then settle into your next read with one of over twenty acclaimed Christian fiction books by Bestselling and Award winning Author Joy Ohagwu today.
Fiction books by Author Joy Ohagwu:The New Rulebook Christian Suspense Series-1- Red2- Snowy Peaks3- The Wedding4- Vanished5- Rescued6- Delivered7- Freedom8- Rest9- SunshineAfter Christian Inspirational Series:1- After2- Jabez3- After 24-After 3The Pete Zendel Christian Suspense Series:-Whisper-The Secret Heritage-Hunter-Hunted-CourageousThe Pleasant Hearts Christian Suspense Series:1-Uncommon Ground2-Unbound Hope3- Unveiled Truth4- Unshaken LoveElliot-King Christian Suspense Series:1- Decoy2- A Home Redeemed
New Beginnings Christian Inspirational Fiction Series (in order):
-At First Sight (FREE Book)-To Have & To Hold (FREE Prequel)-Her Undying Faith (Book 1)-His Changed Life (Book 2) Dear Reader,I wrote this series starting in January 2019 for a reason - to bring hope, faith, and inspiration to tired and fainting hearts - while I was going through a flood damage at our home, facing health challenges,
For the Love of a Corporate Thug
N'Dia Rae - 2021
With lives vastly different from one another, they are connected by one single traumatic event that's changed their lives forever. While they are strangers to one another their lives become connected once Chloe sets out on a mission to find Chance. Chloe the daughter of a prominent attorney is now an assistant attorney to the DA's office. Her plate is filled with a life-threatening trial, a wayward brother and her blossoming relationship. Despite all that she's currently juggling she wants a relationship with her estranged half-sister. Unlike Chloe, Chance has no education and is regulated to a life as a stripper in a hole-in-the-wall club. Impoverished she is taxed with the tough job of raising a little girl. Chloe is doing her best but when she get's entangled in an accidental killing her life is turned upside down. Both women are connected to two real-estate developers; Hassan and Pharoah. Hassan is engaged to Chloe. While he's deeply in love with her, he's torn between being faithful. Hassan's being tempted by the Mayor of DC who holds the keys to prime land for his property. He and Pharoah are dying to get their hand on the land but it comes at a steep price. For the Love of a Corporate Thug is drenched in drama, secrets, and passion. This urban African American romance is dripping with excitement from page one to the end.
A Not Quite Perfect Family
Claire Sandy - 2017
It’s a good thing she loves her big, imperfectly perfect family, because she’s the one who washes their pants, de-fleas the dog and runs her own business. A hearty meal is the one thing that brings the Carliles together – but over the course of a year, the various courses also pull them apart.Around the table sits an eight-year-old militant feminist, a pair of teenage accidental parents, and a cantankerous OAP. Fern’s husband needs an extra seat for his spectacular midlife crisis.Will Fern’s marriage be over by the time coffee is served? Perhaps she’ll give in and have the hot new dish that looks so tempting. Decisions, decisions . . .
Something I Am Not
Cher Gatto - 2019
A woman who stole his worth. A brother he couldn't protect. Where does someone run in the face of his deepest shame?Billy McQueen works hard to keep his life together ... and concealed. At seventeen, he dreams of an escape from the barroom, his father’s manipulation, and the advances of his father’s girlfriend. However, on his eighteenth birthday, he is introduced to a younger brother he never knew he had. An eight-year-old, barely capable of navigating the distorted and corrupt world of his father’s boxing club. Billy realizes in order to protect his little brother, he can never leave. After discovering a battered young woman in the back shed of the club, Billy uncovers the true nature of his father's activities. Before he can share it with the sheriff, Billy is kidnapped by his father and sold to a wealthy old maid who imprisons him on her yacht in the Gulf of Mexico. His death is fabricated and his little brother used as leverage for his compliance. In order to secure his freedom, Billy must fight for it. To save his little brother who is next in line for the slave trade... he must die for it.
Remember Sara
C.S. Bills - 2013
The observant nurse who’d followed Sara as she dashed down the hallway like a specter found her there, fists clenched against her chest, struggling to breathe, her face as white as the hospital wall she was leaning against, her lips bloodless. “Dr. Strampein, what’s wrong?” the nurse cried. Sara turned toward the woman. “Oh, God,” she moaned as the nurse opened the door and shouted for help. Mt. Carmel Monastery, with its stone towers, seems more like a castle tour stop then a place Sara might find healing. But its abbess/therapist is Sara’s last hope. Can Mother Elizabeth dispel the darkness in Sara's mind? A promise of healing and love await her. If only Sara can remember…
Courting the Clearwaters
Jill Penrod - 2013
When an acquaintance introduces him to God and invites him to a college youth group, the changes in his life are immense and unsettling. The most unsettling part is Jenny Clearwater, his boss's daughter. He can't deny his attraction, but she courts instead of dating, and courting seems all about keeping the Shawn Carpenters of the world away from the Jenny Clearwaters.Danger and heartache seem to come around every bend, from a cave trip gone wrong to a friendship that goes up in flames to an accusal of crime at work. Seems God has put events in motion to lead Shawn back into a life of community and growth, assuming, of course, they don't kill him first.Get set for this first book of the Christian series Boys of Summer, for teens and anyone else who appreciates the challenges of stepping into adulthood.
Dare to Dream Again
Alana Terry - 2018
His grace alone gave her the strength to raise her children -- a sweet angel with cerebral palsy as well as a daughter who wants nothing more than to serve God as a missionary on foreign soil. Gloria couldn’t be prouder of her girls, but a future without them both by her side sounds empty and hollow. When God thrusts a godly man like Derek into her path, Gloria isn't sure she’s ready to jump headfirst into a relationship. But maybe God’s giving her the chance for a happily ever after … a second time around.
Chips of Red Paint
K. Martin Beckner - 2013
Following a frightening premonition from a mysterious neighbor, Brian, believing he has inadvertently contributed to the death of his grandmother's housekeeper, runs away from home with his best friend, Charlie. Aided by their friend Stephanie, the two friends find refuge with an old man living a hermit's life on a nearby knob. The old man teaches the boys the virtues of living a simple life and teaches them even more about letting go of the past and never taking things for granted. It all comes to a terrifying climax one day when Charlie climbs inside an abandoned, rusty truck, a truck that still has a few chips of red paint, and closes the door. Here begins a struggle between life and death. Chips of Red Paint is a modern Southern Gothic novel that weaves the past with the present into a colorful quilt that touches every emotion.
Southernmost
Sarah Sadler - 2016
Set in the charming city of Charleston, South Carolina, Southernmost is a satisfying spin-off to Sadler’s debut novel Southern Solstice and firmly establishes the sophomore author with a stand-alone release that is sure to capture new and return readers alike.Former Alabama beauty queen Kayla Carter is given an ultimatum by her wealthy ex-boyfriend Jackson Winslow - either move to his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina with their seven-year-old daughter or support herself on a waitress’s salary. She relocates only to discover Jackson’s life is suddenly in shambles, and he has become a broke, undependable and depressed alcoholic.Kayla hesitantly establishes herself in Charleston’s bustling culinary scene and becomes involved in a delicious fling with a free-spirited and visceral photographer. While she navigates the turbulent waters of Jackson’s new emotional state and fights feelings for him that she’s suppressed for years, Kayla’s personal success is overshadowed by an unexpected complication.With a secret from the past threatening the chance of restoring her family, Kayla forces herself to break Jackson’s heart - and her own - once and for all, or risk everything by facing the shameful truth that has kept them apart.
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Claire Allan - 2012
. .Kitty Shanahan, proprietor of The Dressing Room, is very much in lovewith love. But a routine phone-call turns her seemingly perfect life on itshead. It’s not easy to help hopeful brides choose their dream dresses whenyour heart is in pieces. And it’s hard to know who to trust when the manyou trusted with your entire life has mysteriously disappeared.Journalist Erin Brannigan knows exactly where the love of her life is.But Paddy, who happens to be battling cancer, has turned into a ‘Groomzilla’– planning their forthcoming wedding to the very last detail. When sheis challenged by her bosses to write about her forthcoming wedding,Paddy’s cancer and the man who first broke her heart, she finds herselfcaught up in a whirlwind which spins far out of her control.Thrown together in the elegant dressing-rooms of the bridal shop,Kitty and Erin find themselves caught up in each other’s lives andwondering if broken hearts can ever be mended.
Return to Silver Bay
Lara Van Hulzen - 2016
Josh has other plans, and moving on without her isn't one of them.Maggie Mitchell returns to her hometown of Silver Bay expecting to bury her father, her past, and move on. But when Josh Harden, her high school sweetheart, shows up, her world gets turned around. Drawn to Josh, but afraid of their history, Maggie’s head tells her she can handle things alone, but her heart says otherwise. Recognizing a second chance when he sees one, Josh is determined to win Maggie’s heart once more and show her that she can trust love and begin again.
It Will Be Forever
Jennifer Rodewald - 2019
Thought she’d stay gone…Big-hearted Dre Rustin fled her small Nebraska hometown to distance herself from her brother’s troubled past. Texas seemed like a good place to start a new life. Now she’s looking forward to graduating from college, but first she’s got to handle Thanksgiving break. She’ll head home for the first time in years. No way is she going to get sucked back into the drama and charm—namely her brother’s best friend Tommy Kent—of Rock Creek. For moral support, she convinces her best friend to travel with her. Little good that does her.Tom Kent might not have been the rebel Paul Rustin had been, but he’d earned a less-than-honorable reputation with the girls, which ruined the fragile hope he’d had for romance with Dre before she left for college. In the four years since Dre had shut Tom out, he hasn’t been able to let her go. Now she’s coming home, and he’s got this one last chance. What if she could forgive him? What if they could recapture the tender feelings they’d shared years ago? What if they could build new dreams together? It could be good. Really good. Maybe, just maybe, it could be forever.
The Crying Bird
E.J. Stillings - 2017
Now, she’s a middle-aged millionaire, grieving the loss of her family. The only living relative she has left is her smothering younger sister. May’s sanity is already threatened when tensions rise, so she sets out to find solitude in Florida. However, life has other plans for her. Animal encounters, unlikely friendships, sisterly squabbles and hilarious scenarios take May on an unforgettable journey from the depths of grief to a new life. But, will she embrace it?
Men Like Air
Tom Connolly - 2016
Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother Jack for abandoning him in the UK in the aftermath of their parents’ deaths. Across town, successful gallery owner Leo Emerson is haunted by loneliness, unsettled by the contrast between his life and that of his brother-in-law and oldest friend Isidor, who is enviably contented in his faith and his marriage. When Finn wanders into Leo’s gallery, a series of unexpected and interconnected events unfold, changing the lives of all four men, for better or worse. Leo and Isidor’s settled existences are overturned by events outside of their control, while Jack and Finn’s complex relationship reaches its long overdue showdown. Beautifully orchestrated and richly comic, Men Like Air explores the romance and solitude of cosmopolitan life, the transformative power of art, and the impact we have on one another’s lives—and what happens when the ties that bind us are tested or broken. It is an intense and uplifting story of growth and renewal, mapping the complex workings of the human heart across the streets of New York City.
Where The Green Star Falls
William Jack Stephens
Our Destiny Unique. If you miss the beautifully crafted novels from the legendary authors, you'll love "Where The Green Star Falls". A gripping and inspirational novel about Fate, Destiny, and a Love so profound it will drive a man to the edge of sanity or salvation. It will transport you to the mysterious river-lands of Argentina amid the towering Andes Mountains and emerald green waters, where Nicholas will meet his fate head on. He will forfeit his life or become the man he was born to be. Where The Green Star Falls is a visceral tale of survival, with the soul of love story. Sharing one man's journey through the forces of death and grief that all of us will face one day. And how love is the path to healing the soul. Along the way, you'll experience the most vivd descriptions ever written of the stunning landscapes of Patagonia Argentina, and authentic depictions of the people, animals, and culture of this incredibly unique part of the world. Where The Green Star Falls will remind you of why you fell in love with reading. Click the Buy button now.