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When he was deployed all those years ago, he took her heart with him and never looked back. Now that he’s returned for good, she’s the only thing that feels like home. Pawsitively Yours is a sweet second chance military romance. Madeline Working at Broken Ornament Cat Cafe is more than a job for me, my coworkers are the closest thing I have to a family. Chatting with customers and fostering kitties in the town I’ve loved all my life is everything to me. Still, I can admit that not all my dreams have come true. I never thought I’d end up single, but when my ex-boyfriend left for the ...

She’s vibrant and carefree with a heart for saving every animal who steps through the doors of Santa Paws Pet Rescue. He’s having a hard time acclimating to civilian life and not getting any younger. ♥ Will she get close enough to love him back to life? Will he become her forever home? Can a clumsy dog with an enormous tail be all that’s standing between them and their happily ever after? You’ve heard about Santa Paws Pet Rescue, now get ready to meet the people and pets who are the heart and soul of the operation. My Forever Home is a clean, sweet, and wholesome older man younger...

Young Lizzie Van Ankum boarded the train in Calgary, not knowing that her well devised plans were about to blow awaylike seeds in the wind. She would travel home, as the telegram demanded, then quickly return to nurses training in the city. But what she thought would be a brief visit home, changed everything. How could she ever live up to the promise she made Mother? If only she hadn’t promised. But now she’s strapped to the farm. Why, if God is a loving God, would He plant a desire in her heart, only to pluck it from her? And what about that handsome Daniel Winslow? Would she ever see ...

He just inherited the keys to the kingdom, but she is small-town royalty. With the local Valentine’s Ball right around the corner, can James and Sydney come together to make it a night worth remembering? James My parents put our small town on the map by building a tourist attraction fit for royalty. But I couldn’t get out of their kingdom fast enough. I never understood all the fuss about small-town life. But now that they’re gone, I’ve inherited their legacy and I have no choice but to head home. When taking over the castle puts me in touch with a small-town princess, my ...

Castle Marlowe is an artist who travels to small South Alabama towns in 1914, preaching in rural schools, where he illustrates his sermons with chalkboard sketches. After his wife drowns, he finds it difficult to balance his responsibilities. How can he continue his ministry and take care of five children? An old-maid parishioner suggests her niece in North Alabama could be a great help to him. He assumes she’s suggesting marriage. Why not? The children need a mother and plenty of men marry mail-order brides they’ve never met. It would solve his problem. He sends money for the woman’s...

Advised by a quack doctor in 1915 that her unborn child is at risk for lunacy, a wealthy woman pays a midwife to secretly switch her baby with the newborn daughter of a penniless couple. Twenty-one years later, when the horrifying truth is revealed in a Last Will and Testament, Harper Harrington is forced to swap places with Veezie, the rightful heir. The backwoodsy Veezie wastes no time booting Harper out of palatial Nine Gables. With no funds and nowhere to go, Harper moves into the rundown shanty that Veezie previously called home, in Goose Hollow, Alabama. But Harper soon discovers the ...

A runaway royal or the female Prince Hal? A sickly princess takes a heady detour to her historic destiny. A sensuous and poetic tale about the conflict between the unruly passions of the heart and the dictates of worldly power, this philosophical novel offers a more self-reflexive and less tabloid-sensationalist version of Harry and Meghan’s North American adventure that takes into consideration the political and theological stakes of their romance. The shallow morals of worldly power are trumped by the superiors dictates of the Christian confession.What if our earthly passage were ...

She’s a pastry chef who made a name for herself online. He’s a sweet small-town guy... and he’s her older brother's best friend. Whiskers and Kisses is a sweet and clean brother’s best friend romance. Christina Moving back to Christmas Town isn’t something I planned on. But when I find myself jobless and apartmentless on the same day, I take it as a sign. Being back home feels good although I have to admit, nothing is quite the same as I left it. When I cross paths with my brother’s best friend for the first time in a long time, old embers smolder. Jeremy is sweet, charming, and...

Sunny Miller enjoyed a top paying business career in New York until she received a letter letting her know her momma, Tessa, needed her. She got on a plane and rushed back to her home town of Monroe, North Carolina. She had no idea what would be facing her when she arrived home. It only took a few minutes, talking to her momma, for Sunny to realize her momma's mind was changing. She couldn't remember things and was becoming very anxious. Sunny didn't realize how her life was about to change when the nice looking doctor informed them Tessa had Alzheimer's. Miss Beulah, the lifelong friend ...

World War II left thousands of New Zealander families without husbands and fathers when they answered the call to serve in the ANZACS military. Many of them owned working cattle or sheep stations where tremendous responsibilities fell on the young shoulders of sons and daughter left behind. Nineteen year old Matthew Patton is no exception, but as well as his deceased father he is now facing the stark reality of raising his brothers and sisters when his terminally ill mother also passes. Finally reaching a desperate moment of need he is encouraged to seek help from a young Aussie governess ...

In the aftermath of the Battle of Kings Mountain, can God’s grace and love overcome fear and prejudice? Left to care for her siblings at their mountain farm while her father is away fighting the British, Truth Bledsoe stumbles across a starving Tory hiding in a cave. When simple charity leads to friendship and the possibility of more, can she believe him when he says his political leanings have changed? Can she trust him? Can she trust her family to keep him secret? (This title was formerly published as part of A Pioneer Christmas Collection by Barbour Publishing. It has been revised and ...

Come to Apple Valley, a small town that has existed on handshakes and morals for generations.Evan McClure is a combat-wounded veteran rancher who wants to reclaim his position on his family’s ranch. But getting back in the saddle proves dangerous. After recovering from being thrown and snake bitten, he agrees to one last surgery. But if this one doesn’t work, he’s out of options. The last thing Evan wants is to be stuck inside, behind a desk, keeping the Three M Ranch accounts while other cowboys do the real work. Libby Halverson is a lonely physical therapist who wants to put down ...

He lived and breathed the Texas Ranger code - until one woman’s siren song called him to turn renegade and gamble all he had for a future with her. When Phineas Stockton leaves Boston where he was training for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, he returns to his hometown in San Marcos, Texas to find his brother has married and his mother has moved to a ranch of all places. But determined to make it on his own, he turns to his uncle and the Texas Rangers. While in training, he has a perilous encounter with the leader of the notorious Deadwood Gang, which forces him to make tough decisions. ...

Willow O'Hanlon learned early in life to be fiercely independent, in control, and not risk emotional attachments. She finds fulfillment in her quilt store and devotes herself to helping teens in trouble with the law. She never lets anyone too close...until she makes a promise that changes everything and names her the guardian of her two young nieces. When a custody battle arises, she is determined to do anything to keep them and makes a desperate plea to the one man she thought she never wanted to see again. Elijah Stone has never quite been able to forget about Willow. When she proposes a ...

During the height of her successful career in 1986 when Aida met Brigdon, the magic of the human heart took control without knowing much of each other's background. When critical activities intensified in yet another phase of the Cold War, Aida faced perplexing events that led her to discover Brigdon's deep commitment in British Intelligence. Danger surrounded them. Various unmitigated disasters plagued them. Silent victories unfolded one upon another that continually kept them apart. Despite the myriad of human machinations that included destroying them, they managed to keep close their ...

A TOUCHING CHRISTIAN ROMANCE THAT’S A STANDALONE IN A SERIES.One moment ninety year old Hannah Deane is on her deathbed, waiting for the angel Jack to transport her to heaven. The next thing she knows, she finds herself, not in the realms of glory, but sitting on top of a suitcase in front of a large church hundreds of miles away. It’s there she’s discovered by Hope Dugan, who decides on the spur of the moment to take the old lady home with her until she can locate her family. Hope and her daughter Kaci, as well as Hope’s mother Karla, all take an instant liking to the mysterious ...

‘Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination,’ according to Immanuel Kant. You could also say happiness is a condition of being that thrives when we are at peace with ourselves. A wise man once wrote, “The Christmas spirit isn’t a seasonal feeling of joy and happiness that only lasts as long as the season does. The Christmas spirit is the force that leads us through the year with resilience and unexplainable joy even when things are not going our way. It lived in us as long as we were at peace with who we were and shared our love.” The Christmas spirit is exemplified by...

Former Marine Callum Shaw always knew he would someday join his family’s construction business in Gossamer Falls. He longs for a family of his own but has almost given up on that ever happening. The beautiful artist who has hired him to build her new house is funny, gifted, and everything Cal could ever want in a partner, but he vows to keep his distance. He’s loved—and lost—someone like her before.

Leah Studer, a young Amish woman, eagerly anticipates the Valentine’s Day sled ride. She expects the man she’s been dating, Samson Graber, to invite her to the event. But when a new family moves into the community, Leah discovers the beau of her dreams isn’t quite the man she thought he was. Something is very wrong...Someone else has noticed Leah. Joab Fisher, a young man new to the community, comes to her aid after a frightening accident. He would love to ask her to the sled ride—but he heard she’s going with someone else.

Nate Finnegan has never been a fan of Christmas. His homelife as a child did not include pine trees and holly wreaths. It was not that he disliked Christmas; he just didn't have an opinion one way or another. When he decides to move to Michigan to work on a pine tree farm while going to college, he meets the Sparks family. For them Christmas is not only an occupation, it is the best part of the year and what family is all about. Soon their enthusiasm becomes infectious, and Nate has a big change of heart. Molly Sparks, the pine tree farmers' daughter, is exactly the girl Nate has dreamed ...