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Title: CASCADES Synopsis: Historic Washington is a place to heal through love In the mist of Washington's cascading waters, three young women dream of love. Saddled with three dependents and no money to care for them, Alice Dempsey's trust in men died with her disgraceful husband. Will Alice learn to believe in another man's honorable intentions? Twice widowed, Vivian Carlyle longs to be loved, but her secret past soured her last marriage. Can she ever find a man who will forgive her past and love her despite it? An optimistic dreamer, Lizzie Carter believes she can learn to fly aeroplanes. But can she convince a carefree army aviator that she is serious about flying . . . and love? Can trust be restored and dreams fulfilled so that love can move into these women's lives? |
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Title: THE PRAIRIE ROMANCE COLLECTION Synopsis: A full dozen Historical Romance Stories Expanding western borders, taming the land, and finding a place in which to live and love defines the pioneer heart. Within this unique collection are twelve complete stories of romance on the American Great Plains penned by twelve different multi-published authors. This collection includes Mary Davis's award winning novella Love Notes. Laurel Rivers has lost her father in a bank robbery of his own scheming. Ashamed of his behavior, the only solace she finds is a sheet of music and its mysterious composer. Also in this collection are stories by Lynn A. Coleman, Lena Nelson Dooley, Susan K. Downs, Birdie L. Etchison, Linda Ford, Linda Goodnight, JoAnn A. Grote, Cathy Marie Hake, Judith McCoy Miller, Kathleen Paul, and Janet Spaeth. Enjoy history relived through the pioneers' adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to have more than one favorite to warm your heart and encourage your faith. |
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Title: THE RECKLESS ROGUE Synopsis: "For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us . . ." Ezra 9:9 Lizzie Carter is no ordinary doll. Lieutenant Pete Garfield loves to flirt with the ladies—"dolls" as he calls them—in every town where he lands his Curtiss JN-4D biplane. There are always plenty in the crowds who gather to gape at his amazing aeroplane and pay him for a ride. But one special girl in Cashmere, Washington, captures his interest with her extraordinary knowledge of aeroplanes and her insistence on flying his! No one but Pete flies the Jenny, but he sure doesn't mind giving pretty Lizzie some free rides. Lizzie Carter has always dreamed of flying, but she won't be satisfied until she pilots an aeroplane herself. She sees Pete's arrival in Cashmere as the perfect opportunity to make her dreams come true. But she didn't expect this carefree aviator to capture her heart. Will Pete settle in one town long enough to fall in love with one special girl? Or will the past he's been flying away from finally catch up with him? |
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Title: THE CAPTAIN'S WIFE Synopsis: "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone." John 8:7 Only Vivian knows the truth. Vivian is the new wife of respected Captain Randolph Carlyle, but when Randolph dies at sea, only she lives with the truth. No one else knows that his last words to her were an angry indictment of her secret past life--not his brother, not his servants, and certainly not his best friend, Conner Jackson. So when Vivian calmly accepts the news that her husband's will had not been updated to include her, those who care about her are puzzled by her reaction. Vivian is convinced she has received God's forgiveness for her past behavior, but as she and Conner are drawn to each other, she fears that, like her late husband, Conner will reject her if he ever learns of her past. Will her secret remain safe, or will its existence threaten the love she seeks? |
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Title: UNCERTAIN ALLIANCE Synopsis: "Bear ye one another's burden's, and so fulfil the law of Christ." Galatians 6:2 Alice can't trust another man. Alice Dempsey's husband squandered the family's money. When he died, he left her destitute and solely responsible for her aging grandfather, younger brother, and toddler son. Debt forces the family to move to a Seattle tenement. When Alice is fired from her job, she becomes desperate. Will she and her family end up on the streets? Ian MacGregor has loved Alice from afar for months, but he can't get past the wall of formality she has built around herself. When he learns of her job loss, he offers her employment in his pharmacy. She turns him down, suspicious of his motives. But when her younger brother gets into serious trouble and Ian is the only one who can help, Alice warily allows him into their lives. Will Alice find love where she least expects it? Or will this
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Title: LOVE LETTERS Synopsis: "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40 (KJV)Love Is Sometimes Read Between the Lines . . . Four generations of women find themselves intrigued by the written word. Will the friendships from the men on the other end of the correspondence be the key to their happiness? In Love Notes, Laurel has just lost her father in a bank robbery of his own scheming. She is ashamed of his behavior, the only solace she finds is in the sheet of music she discovers propped up on the piano in the church. She thanks God for sending her the music. Ethan has his arm in a sling because Laurel's father shot him in the holdup. She can't bear the shame to face him. Ethan thinks Laurel hates him because he is the one who killed her father. |
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Title: MICHIGAN WEDDINGS Synopsis: Mackinac Island Harbors the Brokenhearted. |
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Title: HERITAGE Synopsis: "Does the clay say to the potter,
‘What are you making?'" Isaiah 45:9 |
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Title: THE GRAND HOTEL Synopsis: "They cried to you and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed." Psalm
22:5 |
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Title: THE ISLAND Synopsis: “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good spirit lead me on level ground.” Psalm 143:10 Historic Mackinac Island. Haley thought she had found the perfect haven to escape to. But when a handsome tourist rides her carriage for three days straight, she thinks her little patch of heaven just got a little nicer until she learns his true reason for being on the Island. She will not allow herself to be used again. But will she bend her will to let God use her? |
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Title: LAKESIDE Synopsis: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised." Job 1:21 LORELEI NEEDED TO GET AWAY. The last ten years of her life have left Lorelei Hayes with no hope. In a desperate attempt to regain peace, she returns to the lakeside cottage of her youth and prays the Lord will bring healing and rest. Garth Kessel has spent the last ten years of his life in love with Lorelei. Since he stole a kiss from the red-head one summer, he has committed her into the Lord's hands. Now it appears God has brought her back - and the woman she has become far surpasses any boyhood dream he may have created. But Lorelei has a secret - one she's convinced will keep her from enjoying life - especially a life with Garth. Can this beloved lakeside retreat provide happiness again? Or have the sins of others stripped her of a future? |
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Title: ROGER'S RETURN Synopsis: "...you did not trust in the Lord your God, who went ahead of you on your journey...to show you the way you should go." Deut. 1:32 (NIV) On the night of their first wedding anniversary Jackie Villeroy plans to tell her husband they're going to have a baby, but he disappears without a trace. Two and a half years later, he resurfaces. Why did he leave so suddenly without a word? And where has he been? Can she trust him not to break her heart again? |
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Title: MARTY'S RIDE - Synopsis: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psalm 46:1 There is nothing timid or shy about Marty Rawlings. She is all boy. Her survival skills serve her well when her nine year old nieces are kidnapped and she races after them. Can she rescue them before they are turned over to greedy relatives? Or will the smooth talking lawyer, Reece Keegan, who kidnapped them, talk her out of them and steal her heart? |
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Title: CINDA'S SURPRISE Synopsis: "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32 Cinda Harrison is content not to marry but her good intentioned
friends set her up as a mail-order bride. She knows nothing of the
engagement until the day her groom, Lucas Rawlings, shows up to
seal their agreement with wedding vows and take her to Montana.
Upon arriving at his farm, she finds out his real intentions for
wanting a wife. |
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Title: NEWLYWED GAMES Synopsis: Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?" Why not say... "Let us do evil that good may result?" Romans 3:7-8 Megan Livingston has it all worked out. Her mother will visit and be gone before her fantasy husband is sheduled return from his non-existent bussiness trip. But Bruce Halloway inadvertently steps in the middle of her masquerade and winds up playing son-in-law. |
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Title: MUSLIN MYSTERY—BOOK 3 (part of the Patchwork Mysteries Series)
Genre: Contemporary Mystery
Publisher: Guideposts
Releasing: August 2010
When grandma Sarah Hart agrees to restore a dilapidated quilt, she discovers a message in it and a crime that spans three generations.
(historical romance novella)
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
Hannah McConnell’s father founded Faithful, CO but didn’t live long enough to realize his dream of building a mountain resort. When the Coughlins from back east buy up the land and steal her father’s dream by building the resort he had planned, Hannah wants nothing to do with any Coughlin. Hannah blames the completion of the resort and the Coughlins for her mother’s death. Gerrit recently inherited his uncle’s bookstore but has no intentions of staying in the Rocky Mountains. He comes to town with plans to sell the bookstore and head back home in the east until...he meets Hannah. Can he help Hannah resolve the hurts of her past and love him regardless of his secrets?
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- Chapters 1 & 2
- Chapters 3 & 4
- Chapters 5 & 6
- Chapters 7 & 8
- Chapters 9 & 10
- Chapters 11 & 12
- Chapters 13 & 14
- Chapters 15 & 16
- Chapters 17 & 18
- Chapters 19 & 20
- Chapters 21 & 22
- Chapters 23 & 24
- Chapters 25 & 26
- Chapter 27
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BLIND DATES
By Mary Davis
(contemporary short story written for Heartsong Presents newsletter - Romantic Notions)
Mary Grant is pushing thirty. Her family treats her like the last item left on the clearance table, and if they don't do something by the time she turns thirty, she will be passed by forever. She is tired of the pictures of nice Christian men her family is trying to set her up with. So when her friend arranges a blind date for her to stop Mary's family's interference, Mary has no choice but to give in because he is at her door!
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- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
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