Pride can work against you -- especially if it prevents you
from breaking free of guilt over events from your past --
events that were beyond your control. Being stoic is
commendable but silence often leads to misconceptions of
indifference or worse. Sam Robertson's life was filled with
hurt and disappointment Read more...
Skyler Quinn's stepson Mike was doing his best to get her a
social life after his father's death. So he
invited her to join him for the rodeo he was competing in
hoping to introduce Skyler to some cowboys. But
Skyler managed to find an interesting cowboy all Read more...
Girls have dreams of meeting their true love, someone who
will make them feel safe and protected as well as
treasured. Turquoise Sanchez was no different, but she
needed something even more important -- respect and
acceptance. Tired of being the subject of whispers and
slurs, her heritage was a sore Read more...
It's great to be exonerated of a crime but how does an ex-
inmate cope with what he had to do to survive those long
years in prison? Life inside a prison almost mandates
affecting an attitude or air of strength which is
ultimately tested on a daily basis Read more...
Losing a child is tragic. Trying to learn to live after is
a monumental task. For Zan Moreland, her every day consisted
of trying to maintain her sanity by working hard
establishing her interior design business but thoughts of
Matthew were ever present. Is he still alive and if so Read more...
How can you explain attraction? You can't, but strange as it
may seem there definitely was something about Major David
Lancaster that made Lady Jocelyn realize this was a man of
great substance. At the ripe young age of four, Jocelyn
learned a disheartening lesson about love. At this Read more...
Ty Hopewell survived a nasty wreck on his way home. His
best friend Skip and partner didn't. The nightmares of that
Christmas night just wouldn't abate, and neither will the
guilty feeling that somehow he had caused the fatal
accident. Now ten years later, he was meeting Skip Read more...
It's really all about having the inner strength to go on
after tragic losses. Just two weeks before her wedding
pregnant Laura's life took a tragically sad turn when her
fiancรฉ, Jay, came down with meningitis and wound up in a
coma. Laura had come to feel that Read more...
Baggage -- we all have it. What sets us apart from one
another is how we handle it.
Kelly came to Virgin River determined to gather emotional
and physical strength and take time to recover from a scary
medical episode which turned out luckily to be a cautionary
message. A promotion Read more...
Chantal, singer and drummer of the Redheaded Stepsisters,
was out to reinvent herself as Delaney Spencer. You can't
hide talent but you can camouflage yourself so people will
believe what they see -- a coffee drinking female
singer/drummer in a small town band playing weekend gigs in
baggy shirts Read more...
Jack McKibbon researched and developd drills and water
pumps that do one important job, finding water in extreme
and dangerous conditions. Meanwhile his wife Mia was doing
her best to keep their ranch alive and well. His job had
him constantly traveling mostly overseas -- not the most
ideal career for Read more...
Love is a funny thing. It can make us a better person or it
can bring out some quirks that can actually create a
barrier. Destroying that barrier can become a lifelong
battle and unfortunately sometimes it becomes unwinnable.
Caitlyn Marsh's life has been one battle after another
beginning Read more...
Rather simple, if put into strictly a business
perspective, kind of a barter agreement if you will. A
very desirable tract of land, prime undeveloped real estate
with significant financial backing in exchange for -- a
baby. A father desires to give his daughter the one thing
she dearly wants but Read more...
Steven Creed arrives in Stone Creek with his newly adopted
son, Matt, ready to start anew away from the hustle and
bustle of a corporate career. A distant cousin of
the McKettricks, Steven has purchased a small ranch far away
from his family in Colorado. He is looking to build Read more...
Owen Cooper had been a hell raising gambler -- forced to
mend his ways and reform when he married the very idealistic
Renรฉe. Now a single-father and respectable member of the
town, he's alternately grateful and exasperated by the well
meaning intrusion of the local womenfolk. These women Read more...
Jillian Matlock had it made. She was the protege of a
software mogul who groomed her right after college to
become an integral part of his very successful business.
Her expertise in public relations helped the company grow
and in the meantime made her a somewhat wealthy young
woman. Having Read more...
When life gets out of hand what better tool is there then a
really good day planner to get it back in order. Dawn
Taggart's life was the epitome of messy and demoralizing.
Her choices seemed to go from bad to worse, starting with an
unplanned pregnancy as a Read more...
The first impression was of a forlorn, rather lonely but
beautiful home badly in need of care and nurturing. Rather
prophetic, considering that seemed to be her impression of
the man Jane Harper, a life coach, had been hired by his
agent to help get his life in order and Read more...
Daisy Bellamy was fortunate to be surrounded by people she
loved and who loved her, yet she still searched for the
great love of her life. There are times when you have to
settle for safe and steady even though tempted by fiery and
risky.
Daisy's life seemed shaped Read more...
Daria Fontina was ready to take back control of her life, a
life that had spun out of control as her husband's verbal
assaults became more and more vitriolic and threatening.
With two children to consider, she had done her best to
neutralize the growing problems between her and Read more...
Okay I'm hooked - definitely have three more books to add to my must read list. Dogs love us unconditionally - you can't really say that about anyone or anything else. My Maxwell will always have a special place in our hearts along with our Coco and Shani. Now we have a rescue grand doggie Annie who loves her little girl sooo much.