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|  | | A Grandma for Christmas
A Grandma for Christmas tells of the blessings that happen along when we least expect them. It's a captivating story that will restore your belief in new loves, old faith and the magic that makes dreams come true
A normal family life with love, marriage and children is what Madison Millhouse has always wanted. Unfortunately she made some poor choices, the worst of which was falling in love with the wrong man. For twelve years he promised marriage but that was never his intent; now Madison is ready to call it quits.
It's Christmas Eve and she needs a quiet place to think. What she doesn't need is the blizzard coming at her as she drives through the mountains of Pennsylvania. What she doesn't expect is that her life will change the moment she encounters a frightened little girl who's been abando | |  | | Beyond Innocence
Take a prim, proper young woman in Boston in 1950, add a measure of self-reliance and courage——then hustle her off to New York City in a fit of rebellion and what do you get? You get Dorothea Fitz-Simmons, young, naive and hell-bent on finding the life she's only dreamed of.
From the minute she steps from the train, she can feel the adventure just waiting to be scooped up and embraced. Even the air feels different, as if it is charged with a special kind of electricity. Carriage rides in the park; lush dinners in exotic restaurants, tickets to theatre and concerts propel her into a whirlwind relationship. She discovers love, sex and the knight-in-shining-armor of every girl's dream. But as she catapults through this new life she doesn't see that she is being caught up in a web of deceit and danger.
Sunny Serafino, an award-winning author, recognized for her ability to inspire readers with stories of courageous women, has done so once again——this time with a thrilling new twist.
Beyond Innocence begins in Boston in 1950. Thea Fitz-Simmons has led a sheltered life, the daughter of an extremely successful lawyer and an icon of Boston's elite society. Thea is the perfect daughter who has followed the strict admonishes of a controlling mother for twenty years. But a wanderlust, a tingling of adventure begins to nag at Thea and she wants to escape the constrictions of this restrictive society.
It isn't easy making this kind of change but taking a measure of courage from her father, who has broken a few barriers himself, Thea takes off on her own. Her adventures | |  | | Echoes
Set in Pennsylvania, Echoes is a chronicle of surprising urgency—a story of faith and a revelation of love. It's about Lily Hoffmann, a woman of amazing courage, determined to reach a goal not many people think she can. She needs a miracle!
Lily Hoffmann must face the most difficult period of her life. She harbors a dark secret and now prays she will live long enough to mend broken fences and bring her family together again.
Her three adult children, scattered about the country, have drifted apart. They, too, hide behind guilty secrets.
With a surprising sense of urgency, Echoes reaches into this family's heart, discovers weaknesses and strengths, and explores the intrigue hidden there. Lily's story is a journey of faith, a revelation of love and a race against time. | |  | | Following Daddy
My parents definitely marched to the beat of a different drummer. It wasn’t until I went to school that I realized we weren’t like other families, but the differences were funny, educational and challenging.
Fifty years of their unconventional voyage through life provided the inspiration to write this memoir. Riddled with fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants adventures, Following Daddy is about my parents who educated us on the run, considered love and laughter important ingredients in character building and emphasized togetherness, even if it was from a distance.
Filled with humor, adventure and poignancy, Following Daddy is a light-hearted narrative memoir written in the spirit of books such as Sometimes I Dream in Italian, by Rita Ciresi, Erma Brombeck’s The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth.
Page 163 "Memories are priceless whether they are good ones or not-so-good-ones because they are the texture of your life. I'm the same little girl who sat on the cellar floor with sawdust in her hair, sorting nails and screws. I was part of the fishing team that cast a line into the surf in Cap May and dragged smelly fish heads through the water luring crabs into the boat."
Page 18 "It was okay to get sawdust in your hair, spill varnish down the cellar steps, and burn a pie. I learned that some seeds grow and some don’t, that pets die, and that adventure can be found in unsuspe | |  | | Never Look Back
Begin with a gangland murder in New York City—add a full-force hurricane in Florida and Olivia finds that everything safe and familiar is gone. Then stir into the plot two others who are running from their pasts and the intrigue increases. Never Look Back is a story with apoignant twist that takes readers on a soul-searching adventure of love, trust and survival.
Bullets tear through his flesh; blood stains his white shirt and splatters the wall behind him. He dies right before her eyes. She doesn't know the dead man's name, never will, but it doesn't matter—Olivia Vorhees has seen too much. For the past two of her twenty-four years she has been the lover of a the man who now stands, gun still in hand, over the body. "Get her outta here. Take her home," Frank whispers to his trusted right-hand man and she feels Paulie's fingers grasp her elbow.
Thus begins a fear-driven flight into a fierce Florida hurricane and on to adventures and intrigue | |  | | Nobody's Child
Nobody’s Child, set in Florida and England, is a story of intrigue, hope, promise and an unusual love. It’s about Caroline Stillwell, who needs to find her past. But, her pilgrimage through England is filled with secrets and challenges and she finds that questions don’t always have the answers you are looking for, and that perhaps some mysteries are better left unsolved. (Published 2001)
“I think you’ve made a good start. We had a great talk today, I think it cleared a lot of cobwebs from your heart.”
“Cobwebs from my heart,” she repeated, a small frown moving her eyebrows together. “That’s good. Must be the writer in you.”
He shrugged. “You can’t blame yourself for the past, Caroline.”
“I don’t think I do any longer but I must have for a long time. I was thinking about us while I showered. You don’t know who your parents are but you coped with that at a very early age. Your grandmother helped. I, on the other hand, had a mother all along and | |  | | Pure Gold
Pure Gold is a story of manipulation and choices that go astray. Carla Harris needs a quick fix to her problems and thinks that marrying Jake is her answer. But wishes don't become truth and hastily made decisions can be painful.
Set in rural Pensylvania, Pure Gold is a journey through widely different lives, blended into a tale of desire, success and failure, and a poignant love story waiting to happen.
Pure Gold is the story of Carla’s determination to settle down, make lasting friendships and establish roots, unlike her parents who constantly change homes and jobs. When her parents announce yet another move, Carla knows she cannot go with them and she casually mentions to Jake her parents are moving again. Jake suggests she stay with him, but Carla knows his mother will never accept that. Jake proposes. Carla accepts. This is her first step to becoming established.
But what Carla gets is a hostile mother-in-law and a dispassionate husband. Is there no true love anywhere?
| |  | | Second Chances
This long-awaited sequel to Echoes, winner of a Florida Writers Association 2004 literary award takes up where Echoes leaves off. It is the continuing story of the Hoffmann family—but if you haven't read Echoes you will still love Second Chances.
In the house where Patty was born, she lives with her father and young daughter. Life is good—happy—safe. But, little does she know that a change is on the horizon, a change that will turn her world upside-down and forever alter her life.
Follow Patty and George as they fulfill their lives after the loss of their mother and wife. But there are bumps in the road and twists and turns neither expected and if Patty cannot garner enough faith to accept the changes there will be no Second Chances for her or her father. | |  | | Secrets
When beautiful independent Washington D.C. businesswoman, Eve Marshall learns her mother has died suddenly, she steps into an extraordinary world made up of strangers and secrets. She doesn't kow her life is about to change forever, and she certainly doesn't expect a situation that will have her facint death herself.
She thought she knew her mother, remembering she never had an extra dime most of her life. Eve is stunned to find bankbooks and a will indicating a small fortune. Where did this money come from? But, the biggest surprise is finding a set of journals revealing a life Eve knew nothing about. | |  | | Shadows in the Heart
Woven with mystery, love and intrigue, Shadows in the Heart is a compelling novel based on the author's true life experiences. But, Shadows is more than a story of domestic violence—it a story of survival and how one woman made a new life for herself and her daughter and found that true love is never violent but rather a gentle sharing between a man and a woman.
Excerpt: Janie lies across the bed in a fetal position, her legs curled and drawn close to her body. Pain sweeps through her and she strains to detect any sound in the house. Is he still here? He has beaten her before but this time is the worst.
He was fun, charming and excited about the future. So he drank a little, that was what made him fun in a kookie kind of way. What she didn’t know when she married him was that his fun was derived from alcohol, his southern-gentleman charm was a ploy and his future was made up of visionary dreams that never came to be. But, she was trusting, naïve and she loved him. |
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Getting Even
by MORGAN ST. JAMES
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 Kimberly has gone from a well-paid female executive one minute to a desperate woman the next. Thinking her day can't possibly get any worse, she finds out how wrong she is when she goes home. The only way to set things straight is to get even. |
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