Religious Love

The past is seldom hushed. All that needs to be heard will find a way to reach those willing to listen. After years of roaming, Leta Purviance finds herself on the receiving end of what she feels will satisfy her longing heart. Settling into the slower rhythms of life in Quay, South Carolina, she hopes to find peace for her soul in the fields of a flower farm. A handsome and headstrong neighbor, a wise old woman from up the creek, and a grandmother with a load of regrets, all entangle their lives with each other in the wild beauty of the low country.

In this unabridged audio edition— Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God—Christy award-winning novelist Lisa Samson and her daughter, Ty, experience a life-changing, soul-rattling journey on a mission trip to Africa. Confronted face-to-face with the AIDS crisis, poverty, prostitution, and illness, Lisa and Ty find something else as well: Christ’s love and redemption ablaze.

Jonah thinks his life is finally back on track when he agrees to stay in the Amish faith and plans to marry his love, Mary Lou. The bliss is short-lived because Mary Lou falls into a coma. While waiting for Mary Lou to awaken, Jonah tries to make amends with his past and prepare for the future. Jonah enlists the help of his childhood best friend, Samuel, to build Mary Lou’s dream house. Samuel convinces his younger sister, Catherine, who’s now all grown up, to help as well. Will Mary Lou wake from her coma? Will Catherine’s presence distract Jonah? Does God have other plans? This is ...

Mary Lou, a young Amish woman with cancer, is staying in the big city to receive treatment. When her housemates have to move out, she cannot return home because she has been shunned by her parents. Jonah, Mary Lou’s fiancé, is desperate to figure out how to care for her. In a moment of quiet, God speaks to Jonah. Will Jonah choose to embrace the Amish faith and marry his sickly love, or will he run again? Will Mary Lou recover to enjoy the married Amish lifestyle she so desperately craves? This is the 3rd book of a 5-book series.

Sydney is coming from the city to spend the holidays with her family at the local B&B. Right off the bat, the B&B owner, Chuck, rubs Sydney the wrong way. The air around them is tense and uncomfortable for all. Sydney hates that but doesn’t know how to stop it. Chuck is trying to run his B&B business and he’s just getting the hang of it when he gets notice the city may take his business property and force him to move outside of town. That move would likely cause a hit to his bottom line. Trying to fight city hall is difficult business. When Sydney agrees to help out with her law degree,...

Can she win the heart she shattered? Feel-good, sweet second chances/reunion romance with childhood sweethearts to make you smile! All divorcee Aileen McKenzie wants is a fresh start in her hometown, a new life with her teenaged son, their pets, and her fledgling pastry store. When she nearly drowns in a flood and her house and store are damaged, her first love—and the man she left behind over two decades ago—comes to the rescue. Old feelings resurface, and so do old hurts. Roman Vela has built a successful business in home repairs. Only one thing has been less of a success—forgetting...

Fury steals his heart. Doubt clouds her faith. Brokenness threatens to destroy their future. Keedryn and Blake acknowledge their love in this wholesome romance, only to find trouble brewing at the office and turmoil bursting in their hearts. Keedryn is ready to pursue a deeper friendship with her boss, Blake, but insists on taking things slow. After a romantic evening, trouble erupts at the office when rumors fly, and a new policy goes into effect that could destroy their budding romance. She’s falling for him, but his non-existent relationship with the Lord causes her concern. When a ...

Crystal was standing in her wedding dress, ready to walk down the aisle, when a letter arrived by courier telling her the groom wasn’t coming. After being left at the altar, Crystal returns to her childhood home. Crystal’s mom worries about the amount of time Crystal is holed up in her room, buried in her work, and insists she attends church with the family. Crystal is hesitant but is pleasantly surprised to reconnect with an old friend. Gabrielle insists Crystal join the church’s crochet group with her and then invites her for a night out. The outing includes Gabrielle, her husband, ...

The small town of Garland Cove, Maine is the setting for holiday cheer, Christmas spirit, and falling in love. Snow, twinkling lights, and miles of evergreen garland will draw the characters in to fall in love in the most magical time of the year. People return to their hometown, get a second chance, turn grumpy into nice, stop being enemies, and fall in love with a best friend. Anything is possible during the magic of Christmas. This complete series boxed set contains the following books: Home for Christmas Second Chance at Christmas Reformed Grump at Christmas Enemies for Christmas Her ...

“It’s All in His Gaze” is the third and final book in the “Unexpected Love” series. After twenty years of marriage, Prince Adrien and Princess Rachel find themselves in a good place. Their love has survived the test of distance, time, and many hardships. As an effort to bring the people of Noreland together, Prince Adrien has taken on the challenge of putting together an art exhibition. Soon after he’s too far into this endeavor, he finds out that he will have to work closely with an old flame from his past. Someone that could destroy his marriage and ruin the beautiful life he ...

Some treasures can't be measured in silver. In 1880s Idaho Territory, Boston-trained assayer Katherine Lobmeyer is determined to prove her worth in her ailing father's Silver City office, even if it means challenging every convention about a woman's proper place. Matthew Sterling, owner of the richest silver mine in the Owyhees, doesn't believe a woman belongs in the scientific world of mineral testing—until Katherine's brilliant mind and fierce dedication force him to question everything he thought he knew about a lady's capabilities. When theft and sabotage threaten the mining community...

Can God's spiritual warriors help Scott win the battle for his sanity? Firefighter Scott Lunsford hasn't been the same since a car accident claimed his girlfriend's life. He thinks he should have saved her. With his life and his faith in ruins, he takes a leave of absence and throws himself into the renovation of his turn-of-the-century house. His days are filled with renewing and rebuilding, but the nights bring voices and apparitions and Scott fears he's losing his mind. Self-proclaimed klutz Suzy Daniels knows angels frequent her Hearts Haven home, but the entity she encounters floating ...

A third chance or a third strike? What do a dog, a cat, and a hamster, and a whole lot of fish have in common? The couple of humans taking care of them trying not to fall in love! An opposites-attract, fish-out-of-water romance to warm your heart. Translator Cassidy Longfellow's quiet life is turned upside down when she returns to her hometown to care for her niece. Not only must she deal with a lovestruck teen and a dog but also with a neighbor with nephews and a multitude of pets. After having loved and lost twice, her heart is closed to romance. But can the handsome neighbor warm her ...

Cody Maxwell has a dilemma. His father is old but won’t turn over the family farm to his son until Cody proves he’s ready to settle down. That means finding a wife. Liza Kennedy is the youngest of nine children in her family, but knows her parents can’t take care of her much longer. One day, she answers an ad in the newspaper for a mail order bride, from a young man living in Maple Grove, California. Stepping out in faith, Liza heads west. Cody turns out to be everything she could ever have dreamed of … and then a woman appears who threatens to destroy Liza’s happy new life, ...

Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, best-selling author Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs and the paranoid fantasies of the “right-wing echo chamber” are really all about. Here’s a hint: sex.

Love, Ever Strong is the story of a love which begins in childhood but doesn't reach fruition until years later. It's also a story of healing and change. Rose and Conor were orphans who were raised together as friends and playmates since she was 2 and he a boy of 10. When Conor is 16, he leaves their rural home to find his way in the world, not expecting to see Rose ever again. Twenty years later, their paths cross again, but life has treated them each very differently. Battle-weary and motivated by revenge, Conor is nothing like the heroic figure of Rose's romantic girlhood memories. Or is...

Love in Season is a romantic fantasy novella set in the medieval-like kingdom of Penruddock. It is also included in The Flowers of Penruddock: A Romance Collection which was a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category. Eighteen-year-old Lady Poppy Alexandra has fled an arranged marriage to a wealthy but elderly and very cruel duke. She ends up far away in Blencathra with only her precious stallion and a few coins in her pocket and is placed under the care of the widowed mother of the 28-year-old earl...

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B08LTVXK1T (copy and paste the link into your browser) It’s November in White Pine, Colorado. Everything in music teacher Bethany’s Parson’s life is perfect until she finds out that she has nodules in her throat that threaten her beautiful singing voice. Desperate and afraid, she turns to God for a miracle. Garrett is a writer with a huge chip on his shoulder. Emotionally scarred by a deeply personal loss, followed by a divorce, he moves to White Pine for a short visit and finds that his outlook on life begins to change as he encounters the ...

They’re haunted by their past—but this is their last chance at happily ever after. Fourteen years ago, Zeke Parker lost everything. His future professional football career, his mother, and his optimism for the future. He’s not sure he’ll ever be ready to give love, but when he runs into her, he feels like a teenager all over again. Fourteen years ago, Lacey Morgan gave up everything. Her sports aspirations, her drive to succeed, and her self-confidence. She’s not sure she’ll ever move past her anxiety, but when she encounters him, she can’t help but feel uplifted. Both Zeke ...

In a clear and engaging way, this book shows how the principle of emptiness, the philosophic heart of Tibetan Buddhism, connects intimately to quantum nonlocality and other foundational features of quantum mechanics. Detailed connections between emptiness, modern relativity, and the nature of time are also explored. For Tibetan Buddhists, the profound interconnectedness implied by emptiness demands the practice of universal compassion.