Welcome to the Aliso Creek Novella Series Liz, Gemma, Arie, Jess, and Drew have been best friends since creating “the Five” at Aliso Creek High School. But that was over ten years ago, and each is still trying to find that perfect someone… if perfect is even possible. Actually, Jess Giles has found her perfect match, but since Charlie is several years older than she, […]
Seven-year-old Helen Marie Heffner has a knack for getting into trouble, followed close behind by her older sister, Leona Mae. Whether it’s walking the barn beams like a tightrope, fooling the neighbor boys into thinking they’re being chased by a fiery jack-o-lantern, or making a mess rather than transferring a pattern for Mama’s Christmas surprise, Helen comes out the winner every time. But life is […]
Brian believes if he can save an injured bird, God won’t let his mother die from cancer. He’s never been an animal lover and has no idea how to care for the dying bird they found after the storm, but he and his five-year-old daughter begin to tackle the irrational task of saving a life to trade for another. As his mother’s heath continues to […]
A cooking show diva in hiding, A literature professor writing genre fiction, An admirer who wants more than the tasty morsels a cooking hostess is willing to share— A dangerous recipe for romance in the town of Rose Arbor. Cooking show diva, Penny Lee, loses fifty pounds, and gains a stalker. To avoid the attention of her most devoted follower, Penny concocts a plan: while […]
When the woman first appears at Thimble Fingers, Katherine, the owner of the local the needlework shop, is eager to acquire a new customer. After all, it’s not unusual for women who know nothing about needlework to come in, take a lesson in the fine art of cross stitch, and walk out with a bag load of supplies, a head full of projects too numerous […]
Welcome to Whiskey Creek— Heart of the Gold Country! One day, Callie Vanetta receives devastating news… She needs a liver transplant. But her doctors warn that, in her case, the chances of finding a compatible donor aren’t good. Determined to spend whatever time she has left on her own terms, she keeps the diagnosis to herself and moves out to her late grandparents’ farm. She’s […]
Left high and dry, Aurora battles against her love for Kai. She eventually fights her way out of the pain of abandonment when she learns that Kai unknowingly left her with a part of himself she can love. Of course, she’s also forced to take on another partner. Lisa Jordan is a ditzy gal who gets under her collar at first, but soon her chatty […]
New England, 1820: the Second Great Awakening sweeps through the land, fanning flames of religious fervor like a slumbering brush fire awakened by the wind. In Palmyra, New York, revivals of faith soon develop into wars of words as convert rails against convert, neighbor against neighbor, parent against child. In the midst of the uproar a young boy named Joseph Smith stands forth with a […]
Sixteen-year-old Stephanie Beasley has it all. She’s a top student, head cheerleader, popular, with a great boyfriend. But she also has it. It stands in the corner of her bedroom in the dark of night, watching, waiting. Always waiting. Until it follows her out of her room for the first time ever, bringing her terror to a new level. Soon, Steph is losing sleep, unable […]
A story of unsuspected courage. In late June of 1863 two armies converge on an unremarkable field in southern Pennsylvania where Tom Burns, a sixteen-year-old Union soldier becomes enmeshed in three of the Civil War’s bloodiest days. But Tom knows something no one else does. Something that his commanding officers realize may help them gain an advantage in the coming battle—wherever it is to be […]