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FREE eBook: The Most Loveless Mother In The World

Murdered by her own mother, Baby Magdalene, now a wandering spirit, has to determine whether to forgive her mother or to continuing hating the most loveless mother in the world.

The Most Loveless Mother In The World

They, the police officers and Mama, were all cold, wet, and sad as they formed a human wall around my tiny coffin. When I could feel things, like human emotions, I was sad, too. I cried all the time. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do. Maybe if I did—know what to do, that is—she would have loved me. She, being my mama, she never loved me. She never wanted me. She never needed me the way some mamas need their children, even when those children have had children of their own.

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Love or Marriage?

Love, excitement and passion, that’s what is missing from Sharon’s marriage. One day she receives a phone call telling her that her marriage to Daniel was not valid. Now Sharon is faced with a dilemma, remain in a loveless relationship or throw caution to the wind in search of love.

Love or Marriage?

For years, she had managed to quiet the nagging truth about her marriage, but not anymore. Not since that day, that phone call that turned her everyday life into a shapeless blob of emotions filled with doubts, fears and…excitement. For in the midst of these uncontrollable thoughts lay possibilities—awakened possibilities, which had once danced about in her mind when she was a freshman in college and everything life had to offer was at hand.

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FREE eBook: I Do?

Melissa has spent her entire life preparing for her wedding day. She’s a beautiful princess about to marry her handsome prince. Everything is perfect, except for one thing. Melissa doesn’t love Shawn.  Will Melissa go ahead with the wedding?

I Do?

Be careful what you wish for,
because you might just get it.

This was it…that rare, sweet, precious moment when a dream no longer teetered between fantasy and manifestation, but slipped quietly into reality or at least some form of tangible matter. My long awaited wish had finally come true. I was euphoric! Life was suddenly beautiful, charming and magical. For I, Melissa Ann Faraday, would from this day forward live happily ever after.

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The Last Normal Family

Could Bill have done something so despicable? Or is Justine lying? That’s what Colleen has to decide when her daughter, Justine, accuses her father of molesting her.

The Last Normal Family

Colleen wanted to scream. Scream away the shock, scream away the hurt and scream away the terrible truth that something had gone horribly wrong with her family.

Aroused from a sound sleep by angry voices, pleas for understanding and breaking glass, Colleen cautiously pushed open the door to their family room. Bill, still in his robe and pajamas, slapped his daughter across the face. Justine, fully dressed, stumbled backward caressing her jaw. Streams of tears flowed down her cheeks and dangled from her hand before leaping to the floor.

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FREE eBook: The Great Cigarette Escape

After learning that his wife is pregnant with their sixth child, Charlie puts his long awaited escape plan into action. But leaving his sassy wife, rambunctious kids and a mountain of debt behind may not be as simple as Charlie thinks.

The Great Cigarette Escape

Leaning against the post—the one with splinters like porcupine quills—Charlie stared at the fading sunset. He yearned for the day when he too could melt like fallen ice cream upon a warm sidewalk. If I were Houdini, thought Charlie, I would say a few magic words, tease the audience and puff, I’d be a happy, single man again—free—free of wife, free of kids, free of responsibilities I never wanted. But there were no magic words or a slick vanishing act that would free Charlie from being Charles Kennedy, husband, father and would-be escape artist.

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