Family Engagement

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love.

TAKING LOVE AND LAW SERIOUSLY... Aiden O'Connell is a decorated and dedicated K-9 handler, teamed with a dynamic faithful partner, Cooper. Lindsay is a compassionate social worker who cares deeply for the displaced children she helps. These two public servants decide to adopt a little boy and get married to raise him together. Share in their engagement, training to foster-to-adopt, his job as a police officer, her work as a social worker, their wedding, honeymoon, and many other surprises along the way. But a huge obstacle threatens the home they built together when the little boy's abusive...

Evelyn has been married to her husband for 40 years - 40 years since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen both sides of love - the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction, and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it’s over. James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife’s family thinks she could have done better; while Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding - beach weddings, backyard weddings, castle weddings - and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own.

These passionate, emotional romances will heat up your nights… Fall in love all over again in sizzling hot love stories featuring Hollywood’s super powerful family, The Maguires. All these romances come with late-night guaranteed, irresistible Happily Ever Afters. TEMPTING THE HEARTBREAKER Former child star Sabrina Maguire is poised to make a major comeback, but an image destroying scandal while she’s in Italy threatens the film’s success. Her brother’s friend Rafe Cavelli hides her until a PR campaign reverses the damage. Sparks fly between them and they indulge in their desires ...

Her perfect date? Veronica Grant needs a man to take to her cousin’s wedding in order to keep her matchmaking mother at bay. A man like Fergus Kavanagh. He’s perfect—rich, charming and sexy. If he accompanies Veronica, her mother won’t mention marriage for weeks! Luckily, Fergus has matchmaking relatives of his own he wants to avoid, so he proposes a pact: he will be Veronica’s pretend lover if she becomes his! Now he just needs to remember it’s all an act…even though their sizzling chemistry feels oh-so-real!

Discover how love can bloom in the ashes of heartbreak and transform what feels like chaos into connection. Risking It All for Love is a gripping tale of second chances, where the clash of two stubborn hearts reveals the complexities of love, healing, and growth. Jacklyn Austin, the once-charmed daughter of the Hawthorne dynasty, finds herself navigating single motherhood after a painful divorce. Adrian Hale, a former rock star shattered by loss, has retreated to a small town to rebuild his life with his daughter. When their worlds collide through a school talent show, tension ignites as ...

Romance author Becca Mason is spending the summer at Sagebrush Ranch, looking forward to her friend’s wedding, parties and fun. She also hopes to kick the writer’s block plaguing her. Hoping a change of scenery will reignite her creativity, she jumped right in when her friend offered the invitation. Nobody knows what he writes, though, because what credible romance author would have such rotten luck with her own happily ever after? Ethan Boone is a horse trainer at the ranch who’s considered a bit of a player. The truth about that is a little more complicated. He’s carried a secret ...

YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE is one of the most incisive and authoritative books on the subject of Christian marriage today. In the over twenty years since the first edition was published, it has been sought after by counsellors, pastors, researchers, and many singled and married people. With over 10,000 copies in circulation, it has been listed on the internet on Amazon book store, and Barnes and Noble regularly orders copies for their internet inquirers, revealing YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE as a book greatly sought after by readers. This third edition is even much bolder than the previous editions,...

Available in Ebook and Paperback Realistic, Funny, Emotional When a tragic accident deprived Tammy Fletcher of her loving parents at the age of nineteen, she pledged to take care of her five brothers and sisters, ranging in age from eight months to sixteen years. But she’s up against her greedy step-aunt who wants to get her hands on the children’s trust fund, and the CPS caseworker who insists on putting the children in the foster care system. Dr. Jack Conan, the orthopedic surgeon treating the children’s grandmother, is both impressed by Tammy’s efforts to keep the family together...

I left town with big dreams and a bigger fear of settling down. Now I’m back—jobless, directionless, and weeks away from thirty—with nothing to show for my ambitious life but a suitcase and an aching heart. Chandler Monroe was my best friend. My first love. The boy I made a marriage pact with when we were sixteen. If we were both single at thirty, we’d marry each other. He never forgot. And now that I’m back in Harbor Ridge, he’s daring me to say yes. It’s supposed to be a joke. A harmless practice date. A pretend engagement that spirals out of control faster than small-town ...

Will Barb be back for Cade and Andie's wedding? Victory should be sweet for pro quarterback, Cade Prescott. He’s won the Super Bowl MVP, has a baby on the way, and is marrying the love of his life, librarian Andie Wales. Raised by foster parents, Cade yearns to be part of a real family. Unfortunately, his mother is running from the law, and Andie refuses to plan the wedding unless her future mother-in-law is included. Meanwhile, their enemies have not given up, and unbeknownst to Andie and Cade, they are on their way to exact revenge. Will Cade and Andie’s special day result in ...

Janie Hunt's path to the true ways of life was shaky, beset with constant sting of rejection and cruelty from her parents. She was a teenager when she first set foot in a church, where her new best friend's dad was a pastor. Now, after graduating from college and still trying to find her path in life, it still pains her to think of her past. Bradley Bridges is a small town guy, well loved by his neighbors and friends. He didn't grow up surrounded by faith, and he didn't know that anything was missing from his life... until he met Janie. As the friendship between Janie and Bradley grows, and...

The Runaway Ring When well-to-do parishioner, Signora Albi, asks Father Roberto to recommend a trustworthy housekeeper, he puts forward Tano. The teenage boy knows how to keep house and he badly needs a job to keep himself out of trouble. But when Signora Albi’s precious engagement ring goes missing, she has no doubt that Tano is the culprit and that the young priest is his unwitting accomplice. Now Roberto must find the missing ring before Signora Albi’s deadline if he is to get himself and his young friend off the hook. The Elopers’ Escapade There’s nothing Father Roberto likes ...

From their first kiss, 27-year-old writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of jazz and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Eight years later, hopeful to renew their marriage, Danielle and her husband move to the south of France, to a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc. It is here, in a haunted stone fortress built by the Knights Templar, that she comes to understand the dark, subterranean forces that have been following her all along.

All she wanted was a kiss… What she got, was fiery passion… Emily Howard knows she is destined to be a spinster. She has accepted this fate, but that doesn't stop her from wanting to experience kissing. What she doesn't expect, is for Griffin Crawford, the handsomest man in the world, to do the honors. Or for all her female relations to discover her in his embrace. Naturally, marriage is instantly mentioned, but since Emily knows this is not what Griffin wants, she tries to escape him, her family and the ensuing scandal. When Emily flees the Camberly ball in the wake of their kiss, ...

Single mom Daisy Sorensen doesn't believe in fairytale endings - at least not for her. All she wants is to enjoy a much-needed, stress-free family vacation at a friend's Lake Tahoe home. So of course everything that can go wrong does. Including a gorgeous man and his daughter showing up in the middle of the night. Soon-to-be Governor Jack Harrison has had a crazy week, but he's sure nothing can top arriving to find a bathrobe-clad, beautiful stranger in the home he's staying in for the week.

Discover the magic of harmonious living with "Bridging Generations," your ultimate guide to understanding, connecting, and thriving in a diverse age landscape. This insightful eBook offers a roadmap to cultivating meaningful relationships across generational divides, helping you unlock the full potential of every age group in your life. Dive into the heart of generational differences with an exploration of historical contexts and the stereotypes that often hinder our understanding. From the Baby Boomers to Gen Z, gain a deeper appreciation of each generation's unique perspectives and ...

A broken engagement is complex. You were at the ultimate high point of love - planning your dream wedding and future - and, suddenly, the dreams disappeared. I understand you. Let's talk about it, and let's talk about how you will pick yourself right back up, piece-by-piece, and push forward, little-by-little. You will, and I will help you. And so will God, whether you know him right now, or not.

Jazz...Booze...Boys...It’s a dangerous combination. Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle - and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, Gloria’s party days are over before they’ve even begun...or are they? Clara Knowles, Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin, has arrived to make sure the high-society wedding comes off without a hitch - but Clara isn’t as lily-white as she appears.

So long story short, my father was killed, making me the Don and I think my mother is plotting against me. I kidnapped a crime lord's daughter and am in hiding from the FBI. It gets better. There's a private paramilitary group – rumored to be US Marines – also after me. It's been a hard damn week. Fortunately for me, one of the Marines owes me his life. I'm not sure I'm going to survive this. Although my sexy captive has the best chance of destroying me. I gave Adelina my heart years ago. She despises me and would betray me in an instant if I gave her the chance. When it comes down to ...