Dr. Julia Crane has worked hard all her life. She has put herself through college by taking out student loans, playing all kinds of gigs, and teaching. She is beginning her second year as Instructor of Music at Chapman State University, a small Liberal Arts college in Northern Kentucky. David Jennings Cooper, however, secured his undergraduate degree with an athletic scholarship which paid for everything. After graduation, he signed a multi-million dollar contract with a professional baske...

In 1887, a Texas teenager, Will Merritt, longs to own his own place,but his elder brother will inherit the family ranch, and good landis expensive to buy. Then, an old cowboy who is dying, tells hima tale of gold hidden during the Civil War and shows him a map whereit is located.Will is eager to search for the gold and enlists the aid of his friend,Whitmore Garrett. The gold, however, is located in the Antelope Hillsarea of Indian Territory,...

David Cooper is a happy man. The former professional basketball star and eligible bachelor has won the love of his life, the lovely violin teacher, Dr. Julia Crane. Now married, the newlyweds are living in a beautiful new home as they await the birth of their first child. Meanwhile, David is hoping his team, now ripe with freshmen talent, will secure another deep run in the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately, life has a way of disrupting even the best of plans. After the athletic department hi...

Divided sweethearts seek love and forgiveness in this collection of seasonal novellas.Forged for lovers, the Viking star ring is said to bring lovers together, no matter how far, no matter how hard.In eight stories covering more than a thousand years, our heroes and heroines put this legend to the test. Watch the star work its magic as prodigals return home in the season of goodwill, uncertain of their welcome.

"The Martian" is all four books in one: Independence Day, Where it All Began, Hawk Among Vultures, and Martian Steele. Book 1: Martia Steele, a captain without a ship, is starting over. To her a spacecraft isn’t just a vessel, it's independence, it's a means to take charge of her own destiny. She’s broke, and because she’s beautiful, few investors take her seriously. However, she has a cool head, a sharp mind, and a steady gun. Want of money drives her to take work as a freelance security ...

'Second Chance Cafe' is a Christmas collection of four tales of romance and second chances by Susanne Bellamy, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Noelle Clark and Abbie Jackson. Susanne Bellamy's The Wish List continues the author's track record of rural romance set in Australia as well as contemporary and suspense romances set in exotic global locations. In the south-east Queensland city of Toowoomba, handsome accountant Jack Schulz sweeps into Julie Aster's life. He is the answer to her dilemma and...

As the village of Reabridge in Cheshire prepares for the first Harvest Festival following Waterloo, families are overjoyed to welcome back their loved ones from the war.But excitement quickly turns to mystery when mere weeks before the festival, an orphaned child turns up in the town—a toddler born near Toulouse to an English mother who left clues that tie her to Reabridge.With two prominent families feuding for generations and the central event of the Harvest Moon festival...

Love Against the OddsThe Earl of Seahaven desperately wanted a son and heir but died leaving nine daughters and a fifth wife. Cruelly turned out by the new earl, they live hand-to-mouth in a small cottage.The young dowager Countess's one regret is that she cannot give Seahaven's dear girls a chance at happiness.When a cousin offers the use of her townhouse in York during the season, the Countess rallies her stepdaughters.They will pool their...

Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today's environmental activists, this book offers an invitation to reestablish our relationship with nature to repair our damaged environment.Chapter 1 examines the threats to the planet's health through the lens of the human energy s...

When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau, should have been completely forgotten. Yet nearly two decades later, "the worst movie ever made"—as many a critic would have it—has become the most popular cult film since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.In You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!, contributors explore this priceless cultural artifact, offering fans and film buffs c...

Fifteen-year-old Joey Burkett wonders if he will ever be successful at anything. He always thought he would grow up to be a rodeo performer as his father, a world champion cowboy, had been, but Daddy died in a rodeo accident. When he grew to six feet tall in the eighth grade, he thought he might be a basketball player, but that would mean college, and he is failing math. Joey hopes that whatever his future, his new peer tutor, Julie Hernandez, who he really admires, will be a part of it, a...

Dr. Keysha Williams has just delivered a beautiful baby girl when she receiving the horrifying news that her Chicago Bulls superstar husband has been killed by a drunk driver. Consumed with grief and regret, Keysha returns with her son to Hoover, Kentucky, where her friends the Coopers live, and accepts a position in an OB-GYN clinic. Although she longs for a home and family, Keysha is not ready to risk the agony of losing another love. Tyler Maxwell, her husband’s long-time friend and tea...