Hopewell

Novella Series

God's Word denotes this world will test His children. As a ten-year-old, Summer Bree Cooper observes how the world's influence transpires in her small suburban neighborhood of Oak Cliff, Texas.

In 1973, Summer is confronted with the biggest challenge of her young life. She opens her heart and tries to help an ailing neighbor and his granddaughter. His granddaughter has to decide her future in short order.

Will the granddaughter's choice affect her soul and the baby she carries? What will she do? Will she do the unthinkable? Summer whispers a prayer at every opportunity for her new friend.

Forty-eight years later, Summer Bree Cooper-Warren LPC, founder of the Angel Heart's Women Center in Hopewell, Texas, sits across from a reporter from a county magazine. She details her journey's beginning on the vocation she currently embraces and how these events initiated her decisions.

A tragic auto accident takes Cyndi Prather’s parents’ lives. She’s placed in foster care at age eight, and the couple becomes more of a parental figure than hers ever was.

Ten years later, she ages out of the system and embarks on a new path. She leaves Dallas for the small town of Hopewell. She meets a police officer and former Marine, Nick Baker. Cyndi tries to stay on God’s path, but will she deviate from His plan?

Summer's Whisper

Book 1

Standing in the Gap

Book 2

Grove Hill

Novella Series

Jeanne Adams and Roland Bryson are on an unforeseen collision to meet again after five years. Their paths cross in an unusual way as they traverse from separate directions to the small town of Grove Hill, Texas.

Roland arrives by foot from Montana after his extended absence from his family, and Jeanne by bus from her hometown, Hopewell, Texas, her second visit since the summer. Both are seeking something from God and family.

Neither can foresee how God’s grace plays in their lives until they let Him fully inside their hearts. Would they miss God’s calling?

Since Madison Vanguard turned eight, her hopes to attend the same alumni as her Gramps’ are dashed. Still, she won’t give up on her dream of becoming an architectural engineer. Despite having a secret admirer, Madison remains oblivious to what’s in front of her.

Madison, Abbi, and Jimmy John find solace in their deep friendship as they navigate life experiences. Everyone has a purpose and faces unforeseen challenges along the way. Will their paths lead them in different directions, causing the trio to drift apart after years of friendship?

New relationships form as budding romances grow. Who will see their friendship take a different route? Will they recognize God’s hand in their lives?

Hearts at Grace Doorsteps

Book 1

Blended Hearts

Book 2

Coming Soon

Country Garden Hearts

Book 3

Faith and love intertwine unexpectedly in the small town of Grove Hill, Texas. Widowed for two years, Marshall Crawford encounters a new friendship with Taylor Sanderson, only to realize his heart is ready to love again. He envisions a future with her and possibly marriage, with their shared faith and dreams creating a solid bond beyond friendship in a late-in-life relationship.

However, shadows from his and her past threaten the tender blooms of their romance. Long-ago secrets were buried, but now they resurface, casting doubt and fear into Marshall’s heart.

As Marshall wrestles with his emotions, shocking revelations from Taylor’s past fracture their relationship. Each holds their love dear as they try to overcome the challenge.

Whispering Willow

Novella Series

Two hearts. Two homes. One love.
Those are the whispered words young widow Willow Linn-Reed thought she heard from the branches of her namesake tree while she prayed beneath its feathery fronds. But of course the tree hadn't spoken. Might it have been God? And were the words the key to saving the Texas Hill Country estate that had belonged to the Linn family for generations?
Having decided on a course of action, Willow builds a couple of tiny homes on the property, praying the rentals will be enough to pay the back taxes and delinquent notices that are rapidly running out of grace time. Maybe God has provided a way to save her inheritance.
But what will she do when the very first tenant in the very first finished cabin steals her heart on the very first day?

Willow Tree Hearts

Book 1

Butterfly Hearts

Book 2

When playboy Sean McGregor arrives at the picturesque Whispering Willow, the last thing he expects is to fall in love. He’s come to rest and relax, to get away from everything in his life—especially women, and double-especially his ex-girlfriend, who’s having a hard time letting go. But then, who wouldn’t? He’s Sean McGregor. Handsome, smart, wealthy, a definite ladies’ man, Sean has it all…and he knows it.
Except love, and he’s never wanted or thought he needed that.
When he meets the tenant in the only other tiny house at Whispering Willow, he finally understands what it means to fall helplessly head over heels in love. Without a doubt, and with no holds barred. But Julie Hughes is a dedicated Christian. She loves God above all others, and will never allow herself to even begin a relationship with man who doesn’t adore her heavenly Father as much she does.
As Sean learns about Christ, and grows closer to Julie and all their friends at Whispering Willow, his heart yearns for that special something they all have, something he does not. Is there any kind of chance that God would accept a blatant sinner like him into His family? And can Julie ever see him as anything but the arrogant player he’d been just a few weeks ago?

Mr. Right

Novella Series

BrookLynn Laird, a widow struggling with a lack of self-confidence, is thrust into a new world. But everything changes when she crosses paths with Nelson Wright, a retired international photographer who appears to be the perfect ‘Mr. Right.’

Nelson’s presence completely turns her world upside down and inside out. As BrookLynn develops feelings for Nelson, guilt overwhelms her, positive she’s betraying her deceased husband.

Will Nelson respect BrookLynn’s need for space and patiently await God’s timing to open her heart? Can these two brave souls find a way to join as one?

Courageous Hearts

Book 1

Stand-alone

Novels and Novellas

Shadows in Emma's Heart

Survivor’s guilt rears its ugly head occasionally after the murder of Emma Lee Holmes’ first husband, Scott, during their honeymoon ten years earlier. After five years of grieving, she meets and marries Barry.

Well-educated businesswoman Emma knows all about success while she climbs the corporate ladder. Now, at thirty-five, her lifelong plan of having children one day is inching away. Her busy schedule leaves her limited time with Barry while she splits her work schedule traveling between Austin and San Antonio for business.

Her fragile relationship with her mother and sister encourages her to keep the first marriage hidden. Their constant rejection leaves her with no alternative. But like all secrets, they’re never hidden forever. A friend arrives in her hometown, and questions arise.

How will these events fall into place? Will the lies, misunderstandings, and heartaches threaten her current marriage and once again cause another rift in her family relations? She questions why she cannot sustain any relationships for long.

Will Emma finally trust God with her life instead of putting Him in a box and only bringing Him out when she sees fit? What does God’s path look like if she does surrender to His Will?

Will the shadows from her past ultimately expose the truth?

Nightly, sweet giggles from ten-year-old identical twin sisters, Ashely and Alexis Jenkins fill the air as they play on their birthday. A stump near the water’s edge at their parent’s vacation home on Lake Texoma give the girls a place to use their imagination.

A disease abruptly takes one twin, leaving the other gripped with survivor’s guilt for the next ten years. But during this span of time, Alexis Jenkins believes her parents, and God’s promises are not what she needs.

Will she open her heart again to the Lord? What’s God’s plan for Alexis?

Crystal Welch woke to face a new world—one not of her choosing. Three years earlier, found beaten and left in a bar ditch for dead near the small town of Quitman, Texas. Since that tragic day, amnesia lingers.

Painting, drawing, and teaching art at the local high school joyfully fills her heart. Determination drives her decision not to let her past dictate her future, whatever it is. Still, a few questions nag at her in the back of her mind: What is her true name? Does she have a family…somewhere?

Settled in with her new life, she embraces what God has for her future as He imparts His promises. Blind-sided, she doesn’t see what is coming, a widower, Eric Parker, and his teen daughter. Can she fall in love, or does she dare?

Life has a way of rearing its ugly head, and it does such when a stranger arrives in town asking questions.

Silent Memories

Moonlight Dance