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There is a song titled "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing." Perhaps the song should have been titled "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing." You know, a splinter, a piece of wood that gets under your skin. Time must go by until it festers, and you can be rid of that painful feeling, and the healing can begin. In the case of love, it is kind of like that splinter. You meet someone, and a reaction occurs between you, and the heat is on. It becomes like that gnawing feeling your heart gets when it hurts from being so happy or so sad.

Robin Vega, a young girl from a broken home, decides to run away from her life with her boyfriend, Jackson Bailey. However, two years later, Robin, working at a club with her now-husband Jackson, is questioning whether or not she made the right decision. She's then left at a crossroads when she finds out she's expecting her abusive husband's child.

Barely Surviving is a compelling story, showcasing a mother’s grief and survivors guilt. It’s fiction but based on some true events. Callie Palet is lost, she survives day to day alone and lonely. She feels she deserves to be miserable after living, her children dying and then her husband a mere 4 years after the accident. That accident took her life and shattered it into pieces. She wanted to save them, couldn’t, and lost herself along the way. She merely drank her life away for the first year, leaving her husband Jake to grieve alone.

Roger Hope is one of Canada's foremost artists. His current situation has been brought to the attention of the Senior Guardian Angel Council. He requires assistance in the form of an intervention that will allow him to resume the use of his God-given talent. Angel Angie is best for this type of assignment. She is given a dossier of information about the man which will enable her to aide his recovery. The council informs her that ultimately they want him back in front of his easel and wielding a paint brush.

Money, sex, love, and murder--here we go again. We still got more money than you can count, the mind-blowing sex, and the fairy-tale love, but now that the murders have been carried out and vengeance is won, whose taste for revenge has been awakened? With so many loose ends to worry about, Miko, Derek, Brooklyn, and Aaron find themselves knotted in a string of deeper lies and greater deceit.

Caramel Island follows the lives of four young men engaged in the delicate process of meeting and pursuing their chosen mates. Marty hates sailors until he falls in love with one. Paul meets Laura and swears he's been struck by lightning. Danny gets slugged by a beautiful banshee on Doggy beach, and Ryan's new love is a snotty, sexy elf that invades his mind and world. Sometimes heart wrenching, always hilarious, falling in love is an age-old ritual performed to a modern dance beat. On Caramel Island, it's the bedrooms that end up rocking to the rhythm of love.

Stella and Alden Westman have been in each other's lives since preschool. They started out as friends but eventually became more. Stella and Alden married right out of high school. They have six children, two one-eyed cats, and a dog named BUD NO. He has a sidekick named Ernie. Ernie looks like a miniature bloodhound, but he is covered in wrinkles. When he sits down, all his wrinkles slide to his butt.

A captivating story of love and loss and trusting in God through life's trials and triumphs, Putting Time in a Bottle traces the lives of young love facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles while their willingness to try brings about adventure and maturity.

Cressie is a short novel about a young girl born in Southern Minnesota in the 1850s prior to the great Sioux Uprising of 1862. The story begins when Cressie is twelve years old on a homestead carved out of the Minnesota woods. She flees with her family southward into Iowa when the Sioux Indians go on the warpath. They are uprooted, fleeing for their lives, abandoning the only home she's ever known. Her family--her mother, father, and little brother Johnny--seek refuge at her Uncle Andrew's homestead in northwest Iowa.

Dr. Antonio Silvano made a series of questionable decisions that not only impacted his life but the lives of his family and the very generation he was born into. As a young man, he elected to go to Vietnam as an enlisted soldier. While there, he fathered a daughter that he kept secret from his family his entire life. In trying to protect his secret, this decision eventually led him to become involved with a family member who had ties to the Mafia.

Did you know that an act of generosity can move you, delight you, and shake up your world in the most wonderful way? Well, it can. Your generosity of time has moved me, delighted me, and has shaken up my world in a wonderful way. I appreciate you spending so much time with me on the telephone. I can't even begin to imagine how things would have been had we not been able to communicate in that way. Everybody's time is important to them, yet you have shared so much of yours with me. I love you, Frederick.

What if, your whole life, you've always known who you are and what you're doing with your life? Then, what if you discovered everything you knew was wrong? This is the realization of Catherine James. She has it all. She is successful, independent and has supportive friends. She has a loving family, and she achieves every goal she ever sets until her 26th birthday.

Joseph Harwood has a problem: he has seven days to find a bride. If he does, he inherits his deceased uncle’s estate. If he doesn’t, he faces financial ruin and social ridicule. He has his eyes on Lady Rebecca, but his heart longs for her cousin Gwen, who’s out of his reach. Claude also has a problem: he has seven days to prevent his cousin Harwood’s marriage and receive the inheritance he believed would be his. Without the inheritance, he can’t pay off his insurmountable debt and will face servitude or death. His plan is to kidnap Lady Rebecca.

Crispin Aleron was an ordinary mortal man until the night he was attacked and left for dead. A stranger appeared from nowhere, making an offer he couldn't refuse. Offers such as this cannot be without consequences, but Crispin had no time to think it over. Now, centuries later, the consequences are becoming clearer. Spending all these years repaying his debt, doing as the otherworldly Council of Seven demands, he is now dealing with their punishment for breaking their cardinal rule: absolutely no intimacy with mortal beings.

Embark on this journey through the territory of Minnesota to 1856, Duluth, with Emma Withers, an eighteen-year-old orphan who decides that the Lord wants her to move on from life as she’s known it. She had been blessed with parents who taught her about the Bible and seems to have a good grip on life, but there’s so much more to learn about herself and those around her and the effects that forgiveness has had in their lives.

In the Regency era's glittering society, the Earl of Sheffield, Peter Mellingham, witnesses his cousin's murder and becomes a target himself. To escape the killers, he adopts a daring disguise as Cynthia Meadows, his best friend's younger sister. As Peter and his loyal friend Brendon journey to Worthing for the transformation, the villains are never far behind. Meanwhile, Cynthia's heart races with fear while also finding unexpected love in the form of Miss Elsbeth Palfrey.

Kieron, a mysterious drifter, meets Ailish, a singer who is happily divorced. Ailish is very suspicious of him, but somehow they get close. Raymond is an old flame of Ailish's. She does not recognize him, but she feels like she knows him. Then there is Oisin, whom Ailish has a longing for. A huge event brings them all together. Enjoy figuring it all out.

Lord Charles Hawkly, the new Duke of Hawkhurst is still reeling. First his father died at New Year's, then his brother dies in a fall that may not have been an accident at all. If it wasn't for his best friend's wife giving birth, he'd think bad luck was following him. They say bad things happen in threes. So what could possibly be next?

Olive is an introverted young woman who has never ventured more than four hours away from home, nor has she ever had the desire to do so. Olive is stunned when her struggling-to-make-ends-meet single mother passes away, leaving her a trust fund, with the stipulation that in order to receive her inheritance, Olive must get out of her box and explore the world.

The central character in Kept by an Angel's Message of Hope chronicles how she unwittingly spoke into existence an adulterous love affair. She brings to life the spiritual warfare that ensued speaking innocent but powerful faith-filled words. She exchanges the physical scars of a near fatal accident for the emotional scars of the guilt complex associated with adultery. Her grief is compounded by the arrogance of choosing an opportunist mentality rather than a relationship born of true love.