A Romantic Galena AnthologyVolume FiveEleven award-winning and best-selling authors have once again joined forces and their writing skills to create the next compilation of stories set in Galena, IllinoisWelcome to "Passion and Pumpkins,' the fifth volume of Romantic Galena Reads AnthologiesAs with the previous anthologies, the authors were given a subject for their stories. This year's theme is Halloween, hence the title, "Passion...

Charlotte Williams a forty-two-year-old widow is heading out for a medical mission trip to Guatemala. She meets a group of Marines at the airport prior to leaving. She hasn't even considered dating since the death of her husband, but when she meets the tall, dark, and handsome Marine, she begins to reconsider her celibacy, however she won't ever see him again, right? She doesn't even know his name.Jordan "Hawk" Jackson is a forty-six-year-old Marine Special Ops soldier and leader o...

Elise Sommers has lived a very sheltered life. She developed Leukemia when she was a teenager and managed to beat the odds not once, but twice. However, despite her recovery, her parents were never able to let go of their fear of losing their daughter. Now at the age of twenty-seven, Elise decides it's past time to venture out on her own. She joins the Red Cross to provide aide to the refugees fleeing Syria as the conflict between ISIS and the US worsens.Warren "Deadeye" Vickers is...