August is National Read a Romance Novel Month

After the death of her husband, Lucy moves to a new town where she unexpectedly meets Cole and eventually falls in love. However, what she doesn’t know, there’s another man, the mysterious Rodney, who loves her and has been watching her from afar for weeks. Rodney becomes obsessed with Lucy. He’s disillusioned and believes she belongs to him, so if he can’t have her, no one will. He has to decide if he will kill Cole, Lucy, or both. Will Cole be able to save Lucy, or will he die trying to protect his love? Or will Rodney be captured before he can inflict his wrath on them?

Always My Son is one of a five book series revolving around girls who shared a season at Hope House, a maternity home. Two girls chose to keep their babies, including Candy, and the other three chose adoptive placement. The stories begin with their choices and continue through God’s redemptive plan in their lives. Candy’s healing comes through her marriage to Joe and his mother’s marriage to the police officer who saved her life, which brings them into a loving, exuberant Hispanic family. Candy’s hope is when the shame of her childhood abuse is revealed, her son, whom Joe considers his own, will accept the father who chose him.

Avie Williams Cole has a mission: take a quick trip to Georgia to settle her father’s estate. Too busy to go, her attorney husband, Michael, sends her off with their asthmatic son, Joseph, to keep her company. In tiny Taylor’s Crossing, Avie settles in but is soon thrown off course by overbearing and meddling family members and her son’s fascination with a legendary Cherokee Silver mine. Their search for the silver mine leads her up to Taylor’s Ridge and to a new friend, Will. As her stay lengthens, her life begins to unravel even as she begins to blossom and make new friends. For the first time in her life, she must learn to stand on her own and find her way.

Joseph Stuart, a wealthy Scot marble baron, builds The Manor in 1890, in Ebyville, Georgia, to win his bride. When he proposed, she told him that if he built her the finest house in town, that she’d marry him. The manse has always been in the Stuart Family, until Katherine, a music teacher who moves to Ebyville, from New Mexico, to work at the middle school, falls in love with The Manor, and purchases a seeming dichotomy of exterior disrepair yet with beautiful flower gardens. She is unprepared, as is the entire town, for The Manor’s unfolding secrets of its 106-year old history.